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Michael

@thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social

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Fisheries biologist working with the Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife, monitoring coastal fall Chinook. Birder, forager, all-around amateur naturalist and photographer.

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 15h

What do you wear when you're double booked for a protest and a mushroom festival? Why, this, of course! Courtesy of @mushroom-marauder.bsky.social.

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 18h

Two phone shots taken today while wandering the woods of Cape Perpetua. We didn't get signed up for any walks with the Yachats Mushroom Festival, so we did our own! #Mushrooms #thepeoplescoast #Oregon

A pair of fly amanita, Amanita muscaria. This may be the most iconic mushroom on the planet, but is actually a transplant here in Oregon.

A cluster of sulfur tuft mushrooms, Hypholoma fasciculare. These abundant, gorgeous mushrooms aren't good to eat, but they can be used for dye!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 1d

I do love a good murmuration, and shorebird murmuration is extra special!

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Well here's how my weekend is starting! An old fashioned and an ocean sunset. Tomorrow; the Yachats Mushroom Festival! #thepeoplescoast #Oregon

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 1d

So jealous!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 2d

Love the colors in the background!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Alan!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 3d

#BirdoftheDay theme of #birdinabush; here's a lovely male Yellow-rumped Warbler. YRWA come in two subspecies, one with a yellow throat (Audubon's) and one with white throat (Myrtle) like this one here. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 5d

The #BirdoftheDay theme today; #longnecks. Luckily this hunting Great Egret fits the bill, in one of the stranger poses I've seen on a bird. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Alan!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Rob!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 5d

For todays #BirdoftheDay I went for the alternate theme of #droplets. I saw this Green-tailed Towhee bathing in an artificial pool at a blind this summer. One of my favorite sparrows! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 6d

Ok, so there's like 5 people who might appreciate this joke, but I really need a crew of folks dressed in pegasus costumes to roll up to the Portland protests blasting Sabaton's Winged Hussars.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 7d

January 2025 was warmest on record as climate change ‘overwhelms’ La Niña’s cooling

January 2025 was the warmest January on record, surpassing the previous record set by January 2024, according to satellite data from the EU’s Copernicus program. The findings were unexpected as…

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 7d

Is that bad? That seems bad...

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 7d

#Paridae, the theme for the #BirdoftheDay, are one of my favorite bird families. I find these little sprites endlessly charming. I got this Black-capped Chickadee at my local wildlife refuge last year. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon

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Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Rob!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 7d

Same! I will never get tired of watching a sunset, especially over the ocean.

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Alan!

Michael @thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social · 8d

For the #BlueSkyArtShow #Glow, a sunset over the Pacific Ocean I captured back in 2023. #Nature #Photography #thepeoplescoast #Oregon

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