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Sheri L. Williamson 🪶🌎🧪
@sherilwilliamson.bsky.social
Naturalist 🦋 birder 🦉 ornithologist & hummingbird researcher 🪶 field guide author 📖 photographer 📷 artist 🎨 gardener 🌱 chicken/dog mom, desert rat, border resident 🇺🇲🇲🇽, democracy fan 🗽. She/her.
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These potentially disastrous instructions were among the top results when I searched for microwave rice cooker instructions on DuckDuckGo. DDG has since added the option of permanently excluding sites from search results, but I'm not sure that helps much with the proliferation of AI slop sites.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If you have multiple Gmail accounts connected to the Android app, look for "Smart features" under the "General" settings for each account rather than in "General settings."

You'll need to disable "Smart features" on each account individually.
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Darkness, shmarkness. The shorter days of fall signal the Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) that it's time for a glow up.

Its wild relatives are epiphytes endemic to the mountains of southeastern Brazil where they provide nectar for hummingbirds. 🌱🪶 #garden #ornithophily
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A short time exposure of the aurora taken with my phone camera's "Night" setting.
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
9:45 p.m. on the south side of Bisbee, Arizona, less than 6 miles north of the Mexican border. Photo taken using my phone's "Night" setting; in the live view, the aurora is a faint but noticeable red glow extending well up from the northern horizon.
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Evans's book has been through several radically different several covers. My copy was a book club edition, which probably explains why it has a much more attractive dust jacket.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Here's more jacobin blue for you.
October 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
October 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
October 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
October 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
With my favorite holiday coming up, it's time to share my favorite Halloween costume from 2015: a mashup of a traditional Día de los Muertos catrina character and the Kelly/Mouse "Skull & Roses" cover art for the Grateful Dead's self-titled 1971 live album.
October 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sunday #bloomscrolling: Mexican Sage, Salvia mexicana 'Limelight', a natural mutation introduced to horticulture in 1978. Like many ornithophilous Mexican sages, it blooms in fall, perfect to welcome migrating hummingbirds returning to their winter homes but frustrating for northern gardeners. 🌱🪶
October 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yay! A celebratory juvenile Brown Pelican from a visit to the Puerto Vallarta area in Jalisco, Mexico last January. 🪶
October 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
In every day of her public life, Dr. Goodall demonstrated that you don't have to be flamboyant, hyperbolic, or confrontational to make a difference in the world. May her example continue to inspire generations of scientists and activists.
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's #TuesdayRoosday! The ladies stopped laying weeks ago when they went into molt, and Ziggy seems to think they need a little coaching to get back to work. 🐓🪶 #roosplaining #chickens
October 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
It's been a rough week. These are for you.
#bloomscrolling 🌱
September 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The intersection of gardening 🌱 and the Alien franchise. #AlienEarth
September 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Fall migration is helping to keep the existential dread at a manageable level. After a rough night caring for a sickly chicken, an hour on the patio with binoculars rewarded me with the first returning Green-tailed Towhee and a female (un)Painted Bunting (a regional rarity). 🪶
September 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We should see the first Sandhill Cranes in southeastern Arizona in just a couple of weeks! It's going to be a tough winter for them, with too little rain to fill the playa lakes where they roost. Hoping that avian flu doesn't add to their problems. 🤞🪶
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Song of the Monsoon 9:2: The weeds appear on the earth, the time of the whining of mosquitoes is come, and the voice of the string trimmer is heard in our land.

The summer rains have been fickle and spotty, good enough for bitey bugs and weedy plants but tough on flowers. More in alt text. 🪶🌱🦋
September 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hummingbird activity is up, which provides lots of cheap entertainment but also makes a lot of extra work. This summer's monsoon fizzled into a non-soon, and the resulting scarcity of natural nectar forces hummingbirds and "tequila bats" to rely more on feeders. More in the alt text. 🪶🌱
August 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Dahlias are one of Mexico's many gifts to the world's gardens. This one needed a ridiculous amount of attention to protect it from drought, heat, and hungry wildlife, but what a payoff! #bloomscrolling
August 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM