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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 25d

Aww, I miss you too! Stepping away from social media has been great for my mental health, but it’s hard for keeping up with my Philly friends. Let’s catch up sometime soon!

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 26d

Just an #EasternPhoebe being tiny at Beechwood Farm Nature Reserve #birds #pittsburgh

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 26d

A few mornings ago I got to hang out with this #RedTailedHawk hunter, mistook this #AmericanGoldenPlover for a sandpiper, and had this #BlueJay pose for me, all in one walk #birds #Pittsburgh

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · 26d

I hung out in the park with this absolute stunner a few days ago #RedTailedHawk #AlleghenyRiver

Red-tailed hawk perched on the edge of a stone wall, looking intently at the ground ahead

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 16

😂😂😂

Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 15

Sounds like my teenager!

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 15

Check out the paint job on this dragonfly!

Dragonfly perched on a flower, with an electric blue body with black stripes

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 15

This groundhog looks like me every time I watch the news

Groundhog standing on its back legs with an “oh shit” look on its face

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 15

Double-Crested Cormorants under the Highland Park Bridge #birds

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 14

I think I found a Northern Flicker nest #birds

Tail feathers sticking out of a hollow in a tree trunk

A Northern Flicker hiding on the side of a tree trunk

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Sep 14

So I’m photographing this Great Blue Heron in the water and then I turn around to find another one looming in a treetop far above me. I jumped!

Great Blue Heron standing in shallow water with wings folded

Closeup of GBH standing at full height in a tree

GBH standing in tree but zoomed out to show much more of the tree

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1133.... Please give generously.

The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project

The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of a tent encampment in Central Gaza that provides shelter and specialized ...

chuffed.org

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Jul 27

1. Green Heron on the Allegheny River (lifer!)
2. Discovering the Osprey nest on the railroad bridge is NOT abandoned
3. Two Downy Woodpeckers at the dog park
4. Red-Tailed Hawk hunting in the park
5. Five young Double-Crested Cormorants swimming with their mother near the dam
#top5birds

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Jul 17

There is only one good surveillance app and it’s the Merlin bird app.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is like deep buzzkill / privacy lecture behavior of me, but using face rec / crowdsourcing doxing investigations on totally random people doing absolutely nothing has become extremely popular and normalized on TikTok and it's really very bad

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Jul 9

I saw this Red-Tailed hawk twice yesterday. The Red-Winged Blackbirds were dive-bombing him relentlessly #birds #pittsburgh #aspinwall

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Jun 25

I’ve been off social media lately for the sake of my mental health, but I finally saw (not just heard) a rose-breasted grosbeak and a wood thrush in the same trip to the dog park, and I needed to let you all know. It was cool. #TouchingGrass #birds

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · May 16

It’s a gorgeous warm May evening at the height of migration season in our corner of Appalachia, and all sorts of #birds are passing through #AlleghenyRiver #FlightWeek

Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Highland Park Bridge

Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Brilliant Railroad Bridge

Sunset view of the river and Brilliant bridge from the Allegheny Rivertrail pier

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WESA @wesa.fm · Apr 30

A severe thunderstorm blasted through WPA Tuesday, leaving damaged buildings, felled trees and powerlines, and causing the deaths of at least 2 individuals.

While it took just minutes for the storm to rage here, it may take up to a week for utility service to be fully restored for many residents.

As Pittsburgh area recovers from storm, may take 5-7 days to restore power to all customers

A severe thunderstorm rolled through Western Pennsylvania early Tuesday evening, leaving downed power lines, damaged roofs and felled trees across the region.

www.wesa.fm

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Apr 20

Great blue herons! #birds #birbs

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Apr 18

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play...
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

poets.org/poem/septemb...

September 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives

poets.org

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Apr 13

Been getting into #birds as a way of coping with (gestures broadly) all this and wow, do binoculars ever make a difference. Life list is up to 71 species! New this week: 3 kinds of sparrows and a wild turkey. Dog loves the extra walks. He’ll be smelling some scent trail while I look up.

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Apr 13

Sorry, forgot alt text. First image is a glass suncatcher made with clear glass diamond and triangle shapes and round green cabochons. Second image is me holding it up: white woman in a purple top and magenta sweater, brown hair and glasses, in a sunlit brick studio

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Apr 13

Tonight I made a stained-glass suncatcher at @pghglasscenter.bsky.social! Bought the class way back on Black Friday as a present for Future Sarah. It was great—hoping to take the 8wk course someday. They do great work over there and are so welcoming. #GlassArt #Pittsburgh #Joymaxing

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Apr 13

I had a joke about Theseus, but that ship has sailed

Andy Hollandbeck @logophilius.bsky.social · Apr 13

I've got a Bartleby the Scrivener joke, but I would prefer not to tell it.

James M. Fraleigh @jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social · Apr 13

I’ve got a Giles Corey joke unless you’ve something more pressing.

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Sarah Grey @sarahgrey513.bsky.social · Apr 12

Sweet babies!

Here is Detective Inspector Roland H. Wilson

A tricolor beagle looking attentively at the camera, with his front paws on the couch

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