@batesbird.bsky.social
Environmentalist, biologist, accountant, lover of CA native plants, birds, reptiles, bugs. All-around trouble maker. Native Plants are for the Birds!!
A painting of a bird beside the text "try that shit again and see what happens"
05.10.2025 20:02 — 👍 404 🔁 77 💬 2 📌 2This has to stop!!!!!!
29.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lesser Goldfinch eating Crepe Myrtle seeds...#birds
29.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is fucking horrifying.
27.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 8498 🔁 2590 💬 359 📌 76
Mr. & Mrs. California Quail on a wet morning in SoCal. #birds #californiaquail #sfvaudubon #hansendam
28.09.2025 00:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 Female Belted Kingfishers #birds #sepulvedabasinwildlifereserve
25.09.2025 22:51 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yes.
23.09.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red Rock Skimmer #dragonfly #dragonflies #chatsworthCA #nature #photography
23.09.2025 17:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Downy Woodpecker #birds #woodpecker #sepulvedabasinwildlifereserve
23.09.2025 17:09 — 👍 45 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm getting the fuck out of here before anyone notices"
19.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 453 🔁 70 💬 2 📌 14You must like birds!!🦜
20.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Blue-eyed Darners make sexy time. #dragonfly #dragonflies #sepulvedabasinwildlifereserve
20.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2 male Downy Woodpeckers #birds #sepulvedabasinwildlifereserve #woodpeckers
20.09.2025 19:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pretty Anna's Hummingbird on a super hot day in the San Fernando Valley! Interesting discovery - hummingbirds love to sit on little bouncy branches! My volunteer sunflower is a hummingbird jungle jim. #birds
17.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1Anyone ever wonder if there is a limit the military will take? Asking for a friend.
17.09.2025 01:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pete visits the water dish...
13.09.2025 04:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Allen's Hummingbird - Encino CA #bird #hummingbird
12.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 58 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3
Y'all ever have a bad hair day? Female Belted Kingfisher. Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. #birds #kingfisher #sepulvedabasin #sfvaudubon
12.09.2025 04:11 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Noisy Common Raven #birds #EncinoCA
11.09.2025 00:53 — 👍 51 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Noisy Common Raven #birds #EncinoCA
11.09.2025 00:53 — 👍 51 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Osprey from a different angle! #birds #osprey #sepulvedabasin
06.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 35 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Looks like the girls have finally headed south - Hooded Oriole. God willing - the males return around St. Pat's day, girls about 3 weeks later. #birds #encinoCA
04.09.2025 16:20 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Juvenile Northern Mockingbird #birds #chatsworthcalifornia
03.09.2025 22:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Leucistic Pied-Billed Greebe. #SepulvedaBasin #Birds
03.09.2025 22:14 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cassin's Kingbird, Sepulveda Basin Encino CA #birds #SFVAudubon
02.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shrike 2 for me this week. Juvenile Loggerhead Shrike, Chatsworth, CA #birds
02.09.2025 00:57 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tell me when it's over. American Kestrel. #birds
02.09.2025 00:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
OK, I know this isn't vibrant. But check out the cammo on this Common Poorwill - Hansen Dam, Los Angeles Area. I could not see it was a bird until it blinked and then thought a rock blinked?It was in fine loose gravel among buckwheat plants #birds #SFVAUDUBON
29.06.2025 02:44 — 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Anna's Hummingbird feasting on Cleveland Sage nectar #birds #SFVAudubon
22.06.2025 18:04 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1It adds a certain je ne sais quoi
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