Tim Hardin

Awarding this drawing to @timtakestime.bsky.social for extreme gallantry today

ovenbird rescue squad was activated this morning w @timtakestime.bsky.social

send Olive-sided Flycatcher vibes to Green-wood cemetery (my first time here!). probably my best odds for a lifer this morning in brooklyn

lower odds lifer targets: Willow Flycatcher, Mourning Warbler, and Black-billed Cuckoo

Eyyy good to see you too! The best apps are Merlin, eBird, and the Sibley guide app. The first two are free and the 3rd is inexpensive and extremely worth it!

Wren screaming: “I’m top bird around here!” A falcon-shaped shadow moves across them. They have a moment of consideration. The wren continues, at volume: “I’m in the top five birds around here!”

chasing one of our chickens out of our garden and hollering “DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS!? DO YOU KNOW WHAT I’M EATING!?” at it as i scarf down several bites of chicken nugget in the brief time it took me to close the distance

I found a rare (in Florida) Golden-winged Warbler in Gainesville today…and it’s my 266th species observed in our county this year, which sets a new local big year record!

I think it could be an inland-only county big year record for the Eastern US too 👀

This year has been absolutely absurd

Here in Gainesville, Hurricane Idalia brought us the first ever friggin AMERICAN FLAMINGO ever seen in this county. One of the many wild birds blown in to our region by the storm!

THANK YOU! I was stunned when I realized what it was. Totally unexpected—the only other other time Baird’s was seen here in Gainesville area was 18 years ago and those were juveniles (more likely to end up outside of normal migration corridor in central US). An adult here is REALLY odd 🤯

today I found the first BAIRD’S SANDPIPER seen in the Florida peninsula this year, and only the 2nd time a Baird’s has ever been seen in my county! It’s only the 3rd one seen on the east coast this year (1 seen in NC in May, 1 in NH in May)

A lifer for me
https://ebird.org/checklist/S146137486

Protester holding a sign that says: “if you don’t teach your children to obey Jesus, the devil will teach them evolution, sexuality, psychology, and witchcraft”

I love how the devil is an interdisciplinary scholar

Screenshot of ABA Rare Bird Alert for June 2, 2023 (https://www.aba.org/rare-bird-alert-june-2-2023/), which reads: “The biggest surprise of the week came from Florida, which has already had an exceptional 2023, in the form of not one, but two different Large-billed Terns (5) at two different spots, one in Collier Co and another in Brevard Co. This is one of the classic birds of Amazonian waterways so its appearance in the ABA Area is always a treat and a surprise. These two records represent the 4th and 5th in the ABA Area, and the 1st and 2nd for Florida. Previous ABA records come from such far-flung locales as Ohio, Illinois, and New Jersey, with the latter representing the last record from 1988, some 35 years ago.”

Amazingly, ANOTHER mega-rare Large-billed Tern was found in Florida a few hours away on the same day (June 1st)

(From ABA’s June 2nd rare bird alert at https://www.aba.org/rare-bird-alert-june-2-2023/)

Digiscoped photo of a subadult Large-billed Tern with a big ol dummy thicc yellow bill at the rear of a small flock of Black Skimmers loafing on a sandbar. The Large-billed Tern’s bill is not quite as comically-large as the Black Skimmers’ bills

saw my first ABA code 5 rare bird—a wayward Large-billed Tern!—“one of the classic birds of Amazonian waterways”

It’s only the 4th one seen in the US and the 1st ever in Florida when it was found last month! The most recent prior US sighting was 35 years ago 🤩 https://ebird.org/checklist/S143762634

muting this thread sorry I am overwhelmed lol, at least nobody here is calling me “misinformation” like over on twitter, here’s a screenshot, good night

lol Threads is traaaash

A woman leaning against a rock on a beach while wearing a maxi dress with trains and choo choo patterned on it. From JamMyJob

Getting sun in a raildress

I just want to be on the platform that’s most hostile to fascists/conservatives, grifters, and cranks

Threads was bound to be dogshit. Bluesky’s obviously has a long way to go to match up to twitter in its prime but the vibes here are good and nothing Zuck put out was gonna match our vibes

Reconnecting with my twitter mutuals:

I’m just here to keep that hornysome energy going

A poster's soul never dies, it simply migrates like a demon from a dying host to a new one

Thank you so much! Hope your fam is doing great!

I never properly thanked you but better late than never…thank you, Julia!

Roxy’s hummingbird cake tastes absolutely phenomenal and the fact that it turned out so good in spite of our fucked up and barely-functional air conditioning in this brutal Florida summer…DAMN

I’m clappin and I’m hollerin’ at how much you whip ass

This was the fourth year in a row that I’ve either tied for 1st or won it outright and goddamn does it feel good to win the title outright in the 20th year of the competition, and to get my name on the last remaining blank space on the current trophy 😎

This last month was phenomenal. And grueling

me hoisting the Alachua County June Challenge trophy at our annual June Challenge party for the participants

today I was awarded the trophy for winning 1st place in the 2023 Alachua County (FL) June Challenge—a local friendly birding competition of who can see the most bird species in our county throughout the month

The previous record was 129; this June I saw 146 species. OBLITERATED the record lol

that’s our baby 🥹