Michael
@thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social
Fisheries biologist working with the Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife, monitoring coastal fall Chinook. Birder, forager, all-around amateur naturalist and photographer.
Out foraging again today. Here's the iconic Pacific golden chanterelle, Cantharellys formosus. A beautiful #mushroom as well as one of the best for eating (imo). #Nature #Photography #Oregon
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Out foraging again today. Here's the iconic Pacific golden chanterelle, Cantharellys formosus. A beautiful #mushroom as well as one of the best for eating (imo). #Nature #Photography #Oregon
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Researchers in Canada have documented a wild gray wolf hauling a crab trap out of the water to eat the bait inside, according to a recent study.
Researchers suggest it may be the first recorded example of possible tool use by a wolf.
Researchers suggest it may be the first recorded example of possible tool use by a wolf.
Wolf hauls up crab trap to eat bait, hinting at possible tool use
Researchers in Canada have documented a wild gray wolf hauling a crab trap out of the water to eat the bait inside, according to a recent study. Researchers suggest it may be the first recorded…
news.mongabay.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Researchers in Canada have documented a wild gray wolf hauling a crab trap out of the water to eat the bait inside, according to a recent study.
Researchers suggest it may be the first recorded example of possible tool use by a wolf.
Researchers suggest it may be the first recorded example of possible tool use by a wolf.
A pair of Amanita Muscaria, a little washed out looking, seen in the local park. #Nature #Photography #Mushrooms
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A pair of Amanita Muscaria, a little washed out looking, seen in the local park. #Nature #Photography #Mushrooms
This Great-horned Owl was giving me the grumpiest #staredown ever! #BirdoftheDay #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This Great-horned Owl was giving me the grumpiest #staredown ever! #BirdoftheDay #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon
#BirdoftheDay theme today is #Shadesofgrey. Here's Chipping Sparrow spotted in a cemetery in Ohio, earlier this year. #Nature #Photography #Birds
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#BirdoftheDay theme today is #Shadesofgrey. Here's Chipping Sparrow spotted in a cemetery in Ohio, earlier this year. #Nature #Photography #Birds
First real foray of the season out into the coast range today with @sirisharmony.bsky.social We did... Pretty well. Several pounds of chanterelles, a few B fibrillosus (not pictured) and this good sized Phaeolus. #Nature #Mushrooms #Oregon
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
First real foray of the season out into the coast range today with @sirisharmony.bsky.social We did... Pretty well. Several pounds of chanterelles, a few B fibrillosus (not pictured) and this good sized Phaeolus. #Nature #Mushrooms #Oregon
Witches butter fungus (or similar) spotted in the wood today. #Nature #Photography #Mushrooms #Oregon
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Witches butter fungus (or similar) spotted in the wood today. #Nature #Photography #Mushrooms #Oregon
Here's one for spooky season (which as far as I'm concerned runs through Xmas). There's something unavoidably macabre about my work... Everything I'm looking for is either dead or dying, often extremely decayed. And no, you don't get used to the smell. #Nature #FishScience #Salmon #fieldwork #Oregon
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Here's one for spooky season (which as far as I'm concerned runs through Xmas). There's something unavoidably macabre about my work... Everything I'm looking for is either dead or dying, often extremely decayed. And no, you don't get used to the smell. #Nature #FishScience #Salmon #fieldwork #Oregon
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53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
A pile of Chinook Salmon seen spawning in a tributary of the Siletz River today. This is fairly high up in the system, so there are still good numbers of live fish around. #Nature #fieldwork #Fish #Salmon #Oregon
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A pile of Chinook Salmon seen spawning in a tributary of the Siletz River today. This is fairly high up in the system, so there are still good numbers of live fish around. #Nature #fieldwork #Fish #Salmon #Oregon
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Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s governor and senators.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Swans, here's a trio of Tundra Swans cruising past the Wolf Moon (the full Moon of January). #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Swans, here's a trio of Tundra Swans cruising past the Wolf Moon (the full Moon of January). #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon
So, what did you do at work today? I had to hike my way up this boulder field... In the rain! Probably the toughest part of my survey, and of course it comes shortly before the end... #Nature #fieldwork #Fisheries #Oregon
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
So, what did you do at work today? I had to hike my way up this boulder field... In the rain! Probably the toughest part of my survey, and of course it comes shortly before the end... #Nature #fieldwork #Fisheries #Oregon
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Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Today the #BirdoftheDay theme is #paddling, birds standing or walking in shallow water. Here's a Great Egret knee deep in the water at my local wildlife refuge.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today the #BirdoftheDay theme is #paddling, birds standing or walking in shallow water. Here's a Great Egret knee deep in the water at my local wildlife refuge.
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I understand what the roll call vote totals are going to be but if the other Democrats had a problem with this deal they would be withholding unanimous consent on advancing it and loudly naming their colleagues as traitors.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I understand what the roll call vote totals are going to be but if the other Democrats had a problem with this deal they would be withholding unanimous consent on advancing it and loudly naming their colleagues as traitors.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights
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Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪
Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone
Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect…
www.sciencedaily.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪
#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening Watching the sunset with friends on the Oregon Coast. #Nature #Photography #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening Watching the sunset with friends on the Oregon Coast. #Nature #Photography #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #takeoffs. Here's a Townsend's Warbler lifting off from the branch of a Sitka spruce, taken in Newport, OR. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #takeoffs. Here's a Townsend's Warbler lifting off from the branch of a Sitka spruce, taken in Newport, OR. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
At last, the subject of my work... a Chinook salmon, heading upstream. While not as dramatic as a nature doc, this stretch of the Salmon River is probably more representative of most salmon migration. #Nature #Salmon #Fish #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
At last, the subject of my work... a Chinook salmon, heading upstream. While not as dramatic as a nature doc, this stretch of the Salmon River is probably more representative of most salmon migration. #Nature #Salmon #Fish #thepeoplescoast #Oregon
Fucking hell can we just get rid of this bullshit already? Yes, getting a bit more money back is fine, but the state government isn't exactly rolling in dough right now.
The announcement marks the sixth consecutive budget cycle that Oregon taxpayers have received a kicker payment, the fourth-largest since the late 1970s.
Oregon confirms $1.4 billion ‘kicker’ tax refund coming next year
For now, any taxpayer who filed Oregon taxes earlier this year can expect some money back if they file with the state next year — nearly 10% of what they owed the state in their 2024 personal income taxes. Kicker refunds are delivered in the form of tax credits rather than checks.
www.opb.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Fucking hell can we just get rid of this bullshit already? Yes, getting a bit more money back is fine, but the state government isn't exactly rolling in dough right now.