Sarah Grey

Aww, I miss you too! Stepping away from social media has been great for my mental health, but it’s hard for keeping up with my Philly friends. Let’s catch up sometime soon!

Small grey and white bird on a branch

Small grey and white bird

Just an #EasternPhoebe being tiny at Beechwood Farm Nature Reserve #birds #pittsburgh

A few mornings ago I got to hang out with this #RedTailedHawk hunter, mistook this #AmericanGoldenPlover for a sandpiper, and had this #BlueJay pose for me, all in one walk #birds #Pittsburgh

Red-tailed hawk perched on the edge of a stone wall, looking intently at the ground ahead

I hung out in the park with this absolute stunner a few days ago #RedTailedHawk #AlleghenyRiver

😂😂😂

Sounds like my teenager!

Dragonfly perched on a flower, with an electric blue body with black stripes

Check out the paint job on this dragonfly!

Groundhog standing on its back legs with an “oh shit” look on its face

This groundhog looks like me every time I watch the news

Double-Crested Cormorants under the Highland Park Bridge #birds

Tail feathers sticking out of a hollow in a tree trunk

A Northern Flicker hiding on the side of a tree trunk

I think I found a Northern Flicker nest #birds

Great Blue Heron standing in shallow water with wings folded

Closeup of GBH standing at full height in a tree

GBH standing in tree but zoomed out to show much more of the tree

So I’m photographing this Great Blue Heron in the water and then I turn around to find another one looming in a treetop far above me. I jumped!

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1. Green Heron on the Allegheny River (lifer!)
2. Discovering the Osprey nest on the railroad bridge is NOT abandoned
3. Two Downy Woodpeckers at the dog park
4. Red-Tailed Hawk hunting in the park
5. Five young Double-Crested Cormorants swimming with their mother near the dam
#top5birds

There is only one good surveillance app and it’s the Merlin bird app.

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

Red-tailed hawk in profile, looking down from a building on Brilliant Ave after finishing its meal and fleeing an angry mob of birds in the park

I saw this Red-Tailed hawk twice yesterday. The Red-Winged Blackbirds were dive-bombing him relentlessly #birds #pittsburgh #aspinwall

I’ve been off social media lately for the sake of my mental health, but I finally saw (not just heard) a rose-breasted grosbeak and a wood thrush in the same trip to the dog park, and I needed to let you all know. It was cool. #TouchingGrass #birds

Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Highland Park Bridge

Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Brilliant Railroad Bridge

Sunset view of the river and Brilliant bridge from the Allegheny Rivertrail pier

It’s a gorgeous warm May evening at the height of migration season in our corner of Appalachia, and all sorts of #birds are passing through #AlleghenyRiver #FlightWeek

As Pittsburgh area recovers from storm, may take 5-7 days to restore power to all customers A severe thunderstorm rolled through Western Pennsylvania early Tuesday evening, leaving downed power lines, damaged roofs and felled trees across the region.

A severe thunderstorm blasted through WPA Tuesday, leaving damaged buildings, felled trees and powerlines, and causing the deaths of at least 2 individuals.

While it took just minutes for the storm to rage here, it may take up to a week for utility service to be fully restored for many residents.

Great blue herons! #birds #birbs

September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play...
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

poets.org/poem/septemb...

Been getting into #birds as a way of coping with (gestures broadly) all this and wow, do binoculars ever make a difference. Life list is up to 71 species! New this week: 3 kinds of sparrows and a wild turkey. Dog loves the extra walks. He’ll be smelling some scent trail while I look up.

Sorry, forgot alt text. First image is a glass suncatcher made with clear glass diamond and triangle shapes and round green cabochons. Second image is me holding it up: white woman in a purple top and magenta sweater, brown hair and glasses, in a sunlit brick studio

Tonight I made a stained-glass suncatcher at @pghglasscenter.bsky.social! Bought the class way back on Black Friday as a present for Future Sarah. It was great—hoping to take the 8wk course someday. They do great work over there and are so welcoming. #GlassArt #Pittsburgh #Joymaxing

I had a joke about Theseus, but that ship has sailed

A tricolor beagle looking attentively at the camera, with his front paws on the couch

Sweet babies!

Here is Detective Inspector Roland H. Wilson

Just finished it last night—so smart and funny!

Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside, represent the biggest collective action military children have taken since the sta...

"Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from Trump's crackdown on diversity." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Tweet from 'Michael O'Neill Burns', "Dedicating my life to fascism because I tied for 5th at a swim meet."

You know who we’re talking about here.

UPMC curbs on gender-affirming care for patients under 19 faulted Facing Trump order, Pittsburgh's health care system has said that it is monitoring federal directives on care while empathizing with affected patients and families.

Withholding gender-affirming care is illegal in Pittsburgh, if we're still doing that whole rule-of-law thing #ProtectTransKids

About that #fencing transphobe…