Jenna Bacolor

The secret to a long marriage? #Birds and #puns. Happy Valentine’s Day to all who celebrate! #owls 🦉 💝@richbacolor.bsky.social

After a snow storm, a beautiful Northern Flicker visited our backyard. The yellow tail feathers underneath are a well-kept secret unless they’re perched on a wire or at a feeder. 🪶#birds #winter #birding

Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space The New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico will be replaced by outlets including the right-wing site Breitbart News as part of a “new annual media rotation,” a spokesman said.

Isn’t controlling the media one of the key parts of the authoritarian playbook? We are seeing democracy being dismantled before our eyes.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

This is mind-bogglingly unconscionable. (And, I hope Stephanie Nolen at @nytimes.com will come over to @Bsky.app)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

CDC staff have been forced to remove dozens of chronic health applications and to change open data sets that contain gender.
These are YOUR data and YOUR tools.

Be angry. Be LOUD.

Would love to see the #Michigan Dept of Health & Human services join @bsky.app along with these other state/nat’l #publichealth agencies.

Is it time for your #AfternoonAmardillo? (Yes, I made that up.) Found this one nosing around at Canaveral Nat’l Seashore. #nature #naturebreak #armadillo

Fellow bookworms, drop everything and read this book. Superb storytelling and beautifully developed characters. I had to slow down to savor the last few chapters. Brava
@nnedi.bsky.social #AfricanFuturism #SciFi

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Sure! Thank you.

Do vultures like nudes? We didn’t stay to find out. #BlackVulture #Birds
#CapeCanaveralNationalLakeshore
With @richbacolor.bsky.social

Wonderful presentation by @rosemarymosco.com convinced me to appreciate house sparrows, pigeons, and gulls much more than I normally do. She was also very nice while I was an awkward fangirl! 😬 #science #birds #birding

At Space Coast Birding Festival with @richbacolor.bsky.social

Florida cat

May she be one of millions who stand up over the next 4 years. 🏳️‍🌈

I offer you a palm tree covered in moss and lil shoelace ferns. Merritt Island, FL. #naturebreak #nature

GRANTING PARDONS AND COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATING TO THE EVENTS AT OR NEAR THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6, 2021 – The White House BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the

Here is the pardon order. Disgusting slap in the faces of the police officers who defended the Capitol.

We went hiking instead of watching the shit show today. Trail sign seems like a metaphor? #FuckTrump #inauguration

No! You did not mention! Super cute.

Took my fam to the Elzada Clover exhibit at UM Matthaei Bot garden today. What an amazing story. My mom was a student at UM when Clover was a professor. Bought the superb book by @melissasevigny.bsky.social #womeninscience #botany #UniversityofMichigan #science

Shout out to whoever made #WoodpeckerWednesday! I love alliteration and birds so here ya go - a nice female pileated woodpecker we saw at UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Photo cred to R. Bacolor #birds #woodpecker

We’ve checked out the giant tumble towers and other stuff for parties, but not synths. Now I know how to level up to god tier - yeah!

Indeed.

This gives me hope for the days (years) ahead.

I’m hoping to get to the Night Sky park this year or next at the latest. Been up north a million times but never there for some reason.

I ❤️ Wilderness State Park! (Fellow Michigander here.) Beautiful shot.

Winter birding in #Michigan: leggings, pants, base layer shirt, sweater, parka, neck gator, hat. It was worth it today to see this Hermit Thrush! Photo credit: R. Bacolor #WinterBirding #HermitThrush #Birds #AnnArbor #Nature

We’re flying down from Michigan for the SCBF. Can’t wait to hear you speak!