Sam B.

inspired by hiking thru wildflowers 🌷🌾🌻🌼✨

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They are so noisy. I really love their chatter!

One amazon parrot sits facing the camera while another parrot alights on the branch next to it.

One amazon parrot settles in, causing a second parrot to fly off and a third parrot to squawk at both of them.

Two amazon parrots cuddling on a telephone wire

Two amazon parrots sitting on a telephone wire, one with their eyes pinning and the other one looking fluffy.

Went with some friends to the El Cajon courthouse to check out the amazon parrot roost! It was so cool to watch these rowdy little friends show up over time and hang out, groom, and be cute.

#photography #birds #parrots

This is incredible

I’m obsessed with their feet! I’m so happy with that shot.

A monarch butterfly hangs and drinks from a pink flower.

Creamy orange roses in bloom with the afternoon sun shining through the petals

Yellow aster flowers with red centers in the afternoon light

A silver garden orb weaver spider sits in the center of a beautifully woven web amongst goldenbush and buckwheat plants.

Also just a few more dreamy photos from that same neighborhood walk.

#photography #monarchbutterfly #roses #spiders #plants

A great horned owl from below, foot lifted to scratch at face.

A juvenile great horned owl staring at the camera with big orange eyes.

A juvenile great horned owl from behind, demonstrating the owls ability to turn their heads. The tail is short, the eyes are big, and the stomach and tail feathers are glowing in the afternoon light.

A juvenile great horned owl from the side, lifting up on taloned foot and crooking their head to look at something on the ground.

Working my way through old photo archives. Found these awesome great horned owl photos I took. They were such a cutie, I just watched them for a while one evening up in the tree in 2023.

#greathornedowl #birds #photography

Seek is connected to a scientific app I would use instead called iNaturalist! It suggests an id and then people can help clarify the id. It’s really useful, there’s lots of experts with good plant knowledge on there!

Gold colored crown daisies blur in front of some logs in a pile, bathed in golden afternoon light. Overhead, a crow soars in the blue sky.

Gold colored crown daisies blur in front of some logs in a pile, bathed in golden afternoon light. A crow perches ontop of the log pile, looking to the right. The sky behind the crow is a cloudy grey. There is a fence looming behind the logs.

A white matilija poppy, also called a fried egg poppy, looks fluffy and white in the center of the frame. It has a large egg yolk yellow center that looks like a pom pom. Around it are green leaves and seed pods from other poppies.

Three white matilija poppies, also called fried egg poppies, look fluffy and white. The top one is seen from the side, one of the petals blowing in the breeze. In the center an older flower droops, the petals a creamy yellow. At the bottom is a poppy with it's face toward the camera. It has a large egg yolk yellow center that looks like a pom pom. Around them are green leaves and seed pods from other poppies.

Trying to go through my photo archives and actually edit some of the photos I've taken on hikes. These are from May 26th 2023. It's fun editing older photos with the knowledge I know now after a couple of years of photo editing.

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#photography #birds #nativeplants

Oooo you’re coming down for SDCC? We should meet up at some point!

Loving animals does not necessarily mean you are qualified to care for said animals, in the case of many a viral exotic animal “rescue.” The average social media viewer does not understand that what they’re seeing is animal abuse because they don’t know how to identify it

Oh Dennis!!!! I’m so sorry Tina. I remember all your Dennis stories fondly. Big hugs to you today!

Wearing this shirt at the protest today. Thank you for this lovely art that you did!

Feeling an intense amount of grief lately about things that once were and are no more. There’s a reason why American history only teaches post European contact. You’re not supposed to think about the thousands of years of human and natural history colonization destroyed in a microsecond

Pied billed babies are my faves they are so stinking cute!

A flat colored illustration of an american coot. Its wings are outstretched, it’s lobed feet facing forward. It is wearing a pointed wizard hat decorated with stars, and there are cartoon stars above it’s wings.

Had the idea to make a little magic american coot! I love coots they have such funny feet. Tempted to get this as a tattoo now.
#art #birds #americancoot

You helped bring that big boy to life???? I keep seeing pics and it looks so cool!

A common yellowthroat hangs on some grass in shallow water

A common yellowthroat in some goldbush that has gone to seed, with big white fluffy seedheads

Whenever I hear them it sounds like “whatcha-do whatcha-do”. I love to look for them because they are so stunning but they are always low in some reeds. These are probably the best photos I’ve gotten of one though!

Mysterious Galaxy or Meet Cute Romance Books are both great shops in San Diego!

A person in armor leads their black horse through a dim forest. In the background, a castle shimmers orange through a break in the trees. The trees are surrounded by ferns, lichen, moss, and fungi. The knight has silver armor, including a helm that covers their eyes, a chainmail cowl, a breastplate, and gauntlets. Their sword is drawn. Under their armor they are wearing a long skirt in green covered in gold roses. Their horses tack is covered in the same fabric.

This is a piece that’s taken me a while! My ttrpg group is playing Mythical Bastion soon (a game where you are knights) which inspired me to first attempt drawing armor which then became a whole piece! I’m super proud of how it came out.

#knights #art #illustration #ladyknight #procreate

exhausted janitor jesse answering the hotline is everything 🙏

A simplified and colorful illustration based on the English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk." A young boy scurries down the giant beanstalk, while an enormous hand reaches down from clouds above, trying to snatch him.

Fe Fi Fo Fum

An illustration of little trinket houses amongst narrow leaf milkweed with critters around such as the large milkweed bug, cobalt milkweed beetle, monarch butterflies and monarch caterpillars. The atmosphere is light and spring-colored.

the milkweed motel is open :) 🐛

A white person with hazel eyes and dark brown curly hair stands in their bathroom. On their head is a diy dinosaur flower crown. It’s covered with blue hydrangeas with small pink roses, and there are ferns dripping down the left side. On the right side are fluffy white flowers and in the middle is a blue triceratops with a gold crown.

A white person with hazel eyes and dark brown curly hair stands in their bathroom. On their head is a diy dinosaur flower crown. It’s covered with blue hydrangeas with small pink roses, and there are ferns dripping down the left side. On the right side are fluffy white flowers and in the middle is a blue triceratops with a gold crown. They are standing in front of a mirror so you can see the back of the crown as well.

Going to a fun event at the San Diego Natural History Museum this Friday and the theme is “prehistoric prom” so I made a dinosaur crown!

#dinosaurs #flowercrown #diy #crafts

A set of 4 illustrations of a california quail in a grid. All of them are in the same pose, doing a little strut walk to the left. The upper right quail is “chameleon” colors, a bright blue body with red and yellow accents and dark blue lines. The upper left quail is “pitted” , the colors are that of a pixie cup lichen, a mint blue body with dark red accents and white hi-lights. The background is green, and the quail is covered in pixie cup protrusions. Lower left is “atmospheric,”, green grays with orange yellow sunny highlights. Lower right is “analogous”, an orange body quail with yellow, red, and dark maroon accents.

Catching up on the #aprilcolorschallenge from @faunwood.bsky.social with this piece! it’s always fun to spend some time messing around with color. Since I’m behind decided to do the first four days rendering the same sketch of a quail doing a little strut!

#californiaquail #art #birds

A postcard drawn in posca markers. The background is yellow and the birds are drawn in blue. They sit in a toyon bush with dark blue leaves and mauve/pink berries. On the lower branch sits a yellow-rumped warbler. It is facing away from the audience. On the top branch sits a townsend’s warbler. Hand written on the card are the words “migration has no borders”

Made a little post card for an upcoming art show in my neighborhood! Living and doing interpretive hikes in a border city, it’s super important to me to talk about migration, and the freedom of migration that brings great diversity and opportunities to both people and animals.

#birds #warblers #art

An american coot swims in a lake. It is pointed to the right of the frame, you can see it's legs sticking straight down in the water and it's bill is open to catch something.

An american coot stands on sandy colored rocks on a lake shore. You can see water with a rock in it in the background. The coot is facing the left of the frame, it's football shaped body relaxed, it's webbed toes splayed below it.

An american coot walks on sandy colored rocks on a lake shore. You can see water with a rock in it in the background. The coot is facing the left of the frame, it's football shaped body poised to step, it's left toes all together and brought up in a step, the right foot directly below it splayed to take it's weight.

An american coot stands on plant debris near some rocks on a lake shore. The coot is facing the left of the frame, it's neck pointed back so it can groom it's wings, it's webbed feet under it taking it's weight evenly.

Coots are incredibly adorable and I love their weird feet!!!

#birds #birdphotography #coots #americancoot

Oh I need to find that vid! The theme, and basically all the music in the show, is so fantastic and haunting.

YouTube video by Apple TV Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+

Dunno if you’re a chillhop sort of person but this mix has been playing in the background while I work this week. youtu.be/JRnDYB28bL8?...

Two clark’s grebes doing a courtship run across water. Their white breasts are up, their heads are snaked out forward and up, and there is a big splashy wake of water around them.

I got to see clark’s grebes do the thing! Nyoooooom. (If you don’t know the “thing” is walk on water in courtship and it’s phenomenal.)

#birds #birdphotography #grebes