Adrienne M
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Adrienne M
@adriennemac.bsky.social
AZ Hobby #nature and #bird photographer, love to #hike, read #books, learn about #science and the world, eat dessert. Curious. Introvert. Just completed section hiking the Arizona Trail. 🥾 She/her

https://www.adriennemcleod.com/
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I should probably introduce myself! I’ve been on bsky for a while.
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I’m from Arizona but lived in Canada growing up. I love nature, photography, hiking, reading, working hard, & democracy. My hubby & I have 2 rescue tuxedo kitties who are wild things! 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Posting samples of some of my work below
A black phoebe in the middle of the pistache pink 🩷🖤🤍
#blackphoebe #birdsofafeather #🪶 #ArizonaBirds #birds #birding #nature #Tucson #TucsonAudubon

📍Photo made on the ancestral lands of the O'odham Jewed, Tohono O'odham & Hohokam
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"That's my secret, Captain: I'm always angry"
#angrybirds #birds #curvebilledthrasher #🪶
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reposted by Adrienne M
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A view of the Milky Way from the Rincon Mountains over Tucson AZ
#arizona #mountains #rinconmountains #scapes #nature #stars #milkyway #astrophotography #tucson #backpacking #landscapephotography #sony
#eastcoastkin
📍Ancestral lands of the
O’odham Jeweḍ
Sobaipuri
Hohokam
Tohono O’odham peoples
October 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Wishing for fall and then snow. I’m over the heat!

#nature #desert #mountains #clouds #tucson #arizona #🌵 #naturephotography #⛰️ #hike #scape #desertsnow #landscapephotography

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam peoples
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is nuts!
Actual HUD website right now: 🔗 hud.gov
⁉️😵‍💫

AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇

"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."

🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨
www.justice.gov
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The variegated meadowhawk I spotted yesterday in Sabino Canyon

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam

#macrophotography #dragonflies #odonata #nature #bugs #meadowhawks #variegatedmeadowhawk
#🐞
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Adrienne M
Sedona trail views
October 15, 2023 at 5:55 PM
August 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I saw this storm hitting midtown Tucson from a mountain viewpoint
#monsoon #weather #arizona #tucson #stormclouds #eastcoastkin #scape
August 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reposted by Adrienne M
#Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Sunset #Clouds

Butterfly Clouds at Sunset
Tucson, AZ
8.10.2019
August 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Missing the usual summer storms, we have had almost no rain this summer and it has been very hot 🥵 This is a storm at the Mogollon Rim from a past summer #arizona #summer #mogollonrim #scape #monsoon #skydrama #moody #🌧️
August 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ten writers by whom I’ve read at least five books:
1. CS Lewis
2. Stephen King
3. Tad Williams
4. Carol O’Connell
5. Ross Thomas
6. Lee Child
7. Michael Connelly
8. Robert Jordan
9. Blake Crouch
10. Raymond Feist
Plus..
11. James W Hall
12. Carl Hiaasen
13. JRR Tolkien
14. Nora Roberts aka JD Robb
Ten writers by whom I've read at least five books:

1. Tolkien
2. Shakespeare
3. Nabokov
4. Toni Morrison
5. Donald Harington
6. L. I. Wilder (70s childhood)
7. C. S. Lewis
8. W. Cather
9. E. Wharton
10. Walter Farley (see #6)

Fours: L. Erdrich, Gilad Elbom, Primo Levi, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books:

1. JRR Tolkien
2. Ken Follett
3. Libba Bray
5. Eva Ibbotson
6. Lemony Snicket
7. Joanna Campbell
8. John Marsden
9. Richelle Mead
10. Lauren Brooke
July 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
June in Tucson is one of the hottest times of year, w/ clear blue skies, & hot hot weather. It’s a time when locals take advantage of school being out & head to the hills/coast. My take: mountain lake!

📍Western Apache land

#lake #⛰️ #🌄
#scape #mountains #mountainlake #sunrise #landscapephotography
June 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I can’t even with these people.
🚨Tell the Department of Energy not to change the Section 504 rules!🚨

Accessibility for disabled people is about to be REMOVED from new federal buildings unless we act by MON, JUNE 16!!

Tell the gov't: If we build a new building, it MUST be fully accessible!

👇TAKE ACTION NOW!👇
June 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My husband and I and our two co-hikers finished the last 67 miles of the Arizona Trail the first week of June. It feels good to be done but now we need a new adventure!
#hiking #arizonatrail #azt #arizona #backpacking #🥾 #tree #trail #NorthernArizona
📍Ancestral lands of the Nuwuvi and Pueblos
June 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A black-headed grosbeak and a house finch share a snacking teapot at Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia
#grosbeak #finch #arizona #patagoniaarizona #patoncenter #birds #🪶 #blackheadedgrosbeak
📍Ancestral lands of the
O’odham Jeweḍ, Tohono O’odham, Ópata, Hohokam, &
Sobaipuri peoples
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A saguaro in the evening at camp
#nature #scape #landscapephotography #desert #backpacking #camping #hiking #arizona #arizonatrail #azt
📍Ancestral lands of the Pueblo and Hohokam peoples
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
A male and a female vermilion flycatcher at a local park in Tucson
#vermilionflycatcher #flycatchers
#nature #bird #🪶#naturephotography #birdphotography #tucson #arizona #birdlovers #birbs
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
May 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Wilson’s warbler bath time gets photobombed by another warbler! #wilsonswarbler #bird #warbler #macgillivrayswarbler #birdbath #🪶 #birds #nature
May 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
A MacGillivray’s warbler stopped by my backyard the other day!

#macgillavrayswarbler #warblers #backyardbirds
#nature #bird #🪶#naturephotography #birdphotography #tucson #arizona #birdlovers
📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thimble Peak at sunset

📍Ancestral lands of O’Odham Jeweḍ, Sobaipuri, Tohono O’Odham & Hohokam
May 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM