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Lily
@ldouglas14.bsky.social
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biologist | birder | nerd | she/her
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Nov 27
I suppose I’d better post something to show that I’m real. 😝 I’m a senior biologist with the US Fish & Wildlife Service and Treasurer of the Central Valley Bird Club. I don’t have a lot of time right now, but let’s see how this goes!
Lily poses for a selfie while holding a male Tricolored Blackbird displaying his epaulettes.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 9d
Friday Blue Jays and beams. 💙🇨🇦💜
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 11d
Yeah we did it. The Hallmark #birding movie with #homemade spicy margs, #canned salsa & #pickled jalapeños, and #friends. No better way to spend a #furlough Wednesday. And yes, he will be a very successful birding guide with those binoculars. ❤️
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 13d
Fair. ❤️
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 13d
I’m sorry I just noticed that I posted big bodies?! 😭
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 13d
Big bodies are the best!!! Guess I have to read this now…
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 15d
At it again with At Ease Brewing and the Central Valley Bird Club! No Kings, only Kinglets. #birding #beer #birdsandbrews
A smiling group poses in front of the California Capitol Building holding binoculars.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 16d
jfc this is unbelievable. And also why I fled like a coward. 😓
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 18d
Spreadies FTW ❤️
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 18d
Mother’s Cookies cards 🥰
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 18d
Today was a good day to recharge. ❤️
A mural representing strength with powerful figures and flags and the quote “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 23d
We’re so deeply uncool here in Sacramento that we only gave him a 15-story-tall mural. 🥲
A 15-story mural of Johnny Cash on the side of a building, visible behind the shorter restaurant in front.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 24d
Wow this hit me hard this morning for some reason. 💔
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 28d
A display of green and yellow Sacramento State memorabilia, including pennants and a cheer sweater. A display of Camellia Festival items, including a Capital Nursery gardening book and a book entitled Flower Power.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 28d
Two pamphlets, “Explore the Magic World of California Beans” and “Cottage Cheese Recipe Book.” A portion of a framed black-and-white photograph of Johnny Cash outside Folsom Prison. A marble plinth with a two-handed bowl on it. Words on the plaque behind read: This house of peace shall stand while men fear not to die in its defense.” A display of two diseños depicting Spanish land grants.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 28d
Brent and I thoroughly enjoyed the #Sacramento #Archive Crawl yesterday! We visited the Stanley Mosk #Library & Courts Building, the State Archives, and the Sacramento Room at the Central Library. We’ll definitely attend next year!
The columned entrance to the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts building. A poster for a “Save the Whales” concert featuring Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon, held February 9, 1977 in San Jose. A card showing an old-timey baseball player swinging a bat labeled “California.” A thick book opened to a page of a 1985 State Resolution recognizing the 148th anniversary of General Henry M. Robert’s birthday, with a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order propped up behind.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Oct 3
Now hang on… I just saw a commercial for tires with a lady #birding and they showed a Black-throated Blue Warbler and I could swear the #bird song they played was actually a Black-throated Blue Warbler. Did I just see the most accurate commercial featuring a bird ever?! For tires?!
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · Oct 2
🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4
Graphic with the following text followed by The Institute for Bird Populations logo: Emergency Appeal: Federal Funding Cut Last week 9 of our federal grants were abruptly cancelled without cause. If you can make a donation today, it will have a big impact. Thank you for your support, The Institute for Bird Populations
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Oct 1
Obligatory beaver statue selfie after presenting at American River College’s Intro to Ornithology class this morning. Thanks to the humidity for giving my hair quite the frizz. 😂🦫🦅
Lily smiling in glasses with hair pulled back, but still frizzy, standing in front of a rusted metal statue reading “ARC” with a beaver perched on top.
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · Sep 30
There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...
a young man stands outside on a road through the woods, looking up and holding out a sound recording device a white-throated sparrow, a brown bird with a black and white striped head and yellow spots by its eyes, on the ground
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Sep 30
Definitely! They are quite alien-looking.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Sep 30
The first one is by Franceska Gamez and is actually a print of a mural that’s in downtown Sacramento. Not sure on the second one, I should’ve taken a photo of their signature!
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Sep 30
I love that a local #sushi restaurant prominently features #heron beakspear artwork alongside our CA Central Valley ricelands that provide both quality sushi #rice and heron habitat. I also love that I feel the need to share this with one of my absolutely favorite follows, @everyheron.bsky.social ❤️
A brightly-colored painting centered on a Great Blue Heron flying over ricelands of California’s Central Valley. A portion of a mural showing the head of a Great Blue Heron among reddish fish.
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Sep 29
A local festival about food but also with amazing music? Okay, #sacramento ❤️
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Sep 27
Filmed in Sacramento. He needs that Yellow-billed Magpie as a lifer!
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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · Sep 27
Why did you do this. 🥲