Tim Gallagher @rusticolus60

The moon a couple of nights ago, shortly before the rains came.

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Should be an interesting Halloween night—40 degrees Fahrenheit with high winds and a 45 percent chance of rain. 🎃 Of course, I remember taking our kids out trick or treating a few times in howling blizzards, where you couldn’t see their costumes because they were wearing parkas.

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Thirty-five years ago this month I headed east from sunny California and never looked back—except for on a few frigid days with blizzards and deep snow! 🥶

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Happy Birthday to my wife Rachel and our youngest daughter Gwen, both born on this day—several years apart. 😊

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Happy World Migratory Bird Day 2025! ©Tim Gallagher

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The full moon in our backyard tonight.

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Happy Birthday to my good friend, Bobby Harrison! 🎂😊🎉

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Happy Autumn Equinox! ©Tim Gallagher. Taughannock Falls, near Ithaca, New York.

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I nailed Wordle in two today. 😎

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Full moon over the backyard tonight.

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Happy International Vulture Awareness Day! Turkey Vultures waiting for something to die on the California coast. ©Tim Gallagher

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Chasing the Ghost of the Imperial Woodpecker Searching for the World's Rarest Bird in the Drug War Zone of Northern Mexico

Down Mexico Way. #addBirder #birds #birding #birdwatching

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The moon last night.

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A sad anniversary: Martha, the world's last known Passenger Pigeon (at left), died on this date in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. I photographed her and another of her species several years ago at the Smithsonian's bird collection in Washington, D.C. ©Tim Gallagher

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Happy International Dog Day! Photo by Rachel Dickinson.

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Throwback Thursday: My wife Rachel and daughter Railey trying to shelter from the rain behind one of the ancient standing stones at Avebury, England, years ago.

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A children’s book about two kids named Bobby and Tim who saw an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Sounds familiar.

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The eyes have it. Hippos at dusk in Africa. ©Tim Gallagher

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Happy World Elephant Day 2025. Several years ago at a waterhole in Africa. ©Tim Gallagher

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An adult male Peregrine Falcon I saw yesterday. ©Tim Gallagher #peregrine #falcon #birds #birding #birdwatching

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Where’s the Peregrine? ©Tim Gallagher #peregrine #falcon #birds #birding #birdwatching

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Searching for a ghost bird in the drug-war zone of northern Mexico. Here’s a link to an interview from a few years ago on NPR's Science Friday. I subsequently wrote a book about the Imperial Woodpecker titled Imperial Dreams. Illustration by John Schmitt.
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