Harley Winfrey
@harleywinfrey.bsky.social
he/him
Professional birdwatcher. No really.
Professional birdwatcher. No really.
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Harley Winfrey
@harleywinfrey.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Hello blooskie! I'm Harley and I'm a wildlife biologist specializing in birds. I currently do consulting work for the renewable energy industry--making green energy greener!
Dominion
Spirit Island
Star Realms
Chess
Wingspan
Evolution/Nature/Oceans
Terraforming Mars
Magic: the Gathering
Codenames
Sagrada
#boardgames
Spirit Island
Star Realms
Chess
Wingspan
Evolution/Nature/Oceans
Terraforming Mars
Magic: the Gathering
Codenames
Sagrada
#boardgames
board game enthusiasts of bluesky, what are your top 10 board games of all time
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Dominion
Spirit Island
Star Realms
Chess
Wingspan
Evolution/Nature/Oceans
Terraforming Mars
Magic: the Gathering
Codenames
Sagrada
#boardgames
Spirit Island
Star Realms
Chess
Wingspan
Evolution/Nature/Oceans
Terraforming Mars
Magic: the Gathering
Codenames
Sagrada
#boardgames
One of my favorite new podcasts of 2025! Highly recommended for anyone who grew up on Sesame Street
Today is Sesame Steeet's 56th birthday! If you're interested in learning about the show's stotied history through a feminist lens, check out my podcast A PRAIRIE DAWN COMPANION. You can find it here or on the Muppet Fan Podcasts With ToughPigs podcast feed.
www.toughpigs.com/tag/a-prairi...
www.toughpigs.com/tag/a-prairi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One of my favorite new podcasts of 2025! Highly recommended for anyone who grew up on Sesame Street
Today's office: Setting up solar-powered game cameras to monitor Burrowing Owls! Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶 🌕 🌵
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today's office: Setting up solar-powered game cameras to monitor Burrowing Owls! Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶 🌕 🌵
Wow, they wound up raising over $43,000!
November 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wow, they wound up raising over $43,000!
Update: It's on Letterboxd now! (And still free to watch on YouTube)
My favorite movie of 2025. 🎬 🎥 🪶
My favorite movie of 2025. 🎬 🎥 🪶
Listers is hilarious and does a great job of showing why birding is so much fun. Long-time birders will see a lot of familiar faces and places!
My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet
youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬
My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet
youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (Official Movie Trailer)
YouTube video by owen reiser
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Update: It's on Letterboxd now! (And still free to watch on YouTube)
My favorite movie of 2025. 🎬 🎥 🪶
My favorite movie of 2025. 🎬 🎥 🪶
Via @elizhargrave.bsky.social 's newsletter. This is exactly how I feel about bird photography. Comic by @buttpoems.bsky.social 🪶
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Via @elizhargrave.bsky.social 's newsletter. This is exactly how I feel about bird photography. Comic by @buttpoems.bsky.social 🪶
Reposted by Harley Winfrey
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Alt text is a Bluesky cheat code! Lots of fun ID tidbits if you scroll through SK's photos, in proud defiance of those pesky character limits 🪶
Y'all he let me hang out with him and even at one point flew down to catch a mosquito that was near my bare legs.
I love Black-throated Blue Warblers 🖤🤍💙
I love Black-throated Blue Warblers 🖤🤍💙
September 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Alt text is a Bluesky cheat code! Lots of fun ID tidbits if you scroll through SK's photos, in proud defiance of those pesky character limits 🪶
Reposted by Harley Winfrey
If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans?
Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social
Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans?
Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social
Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social
If you’re like me (and I know I am) then you like podcasts and like birds and so podcasts about birds are the best! Here’s a thread of my favorite bird podcasts, including the number of episodes currently available and average episode length according to the Podcast Addict app 🪶🌿
September 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you’re like me (and I know I am) then you like podcasts and like birds and so podcasts about birds are the best! Here’s a thread of my favorite bird podcasts, including the number of episodes currently available and average episode length according to the Podcast Addict app 🪶🌿
Reposted by Harley Winfrey
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
Listers is hilarious and does a great job of showing why birding is so much fun. Long-time birders will see a lot of familiar faces and places!
My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet
youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬
My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet
youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (Official Movie Trailer)
YouTube video by owen reiser
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Listers is hilarious and does a great job of showing why birding is so much fun. Long-time birders will see a lot of familiar faces and places!
My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet
youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬
My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet
youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬
A great actor and a great activist. I wonder how many mailings and emails I've gotten from Robert Redford on behalf of environmental issues over the decades! 🌎 🍃 🔬
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
Robert Redford: The Environmental Movement Has Lost a Giant
For five decades, Redford was an NRDC trustee, selflessly working to elevate its issues and support the organization.
www.nrdc.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A great actor and a great activist. I wonder how many mailings and emails I've gotten from Robert Redford on behalf of environmental issues over the decades! 🌎 🍃 🔬
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
🪶
Our natural resources department is getting back into the building after long renovations AND I have a stack of art prints that need homes. Sending this pic out to the other grad students to see who needs some color in their new lab/cubicle.
August 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Reposted by Harley Winfrey
In case you missed it: I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org about the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate funding for the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey and what this would mean for bird research and conservation in the U.S. therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...
Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs • The Revelator
Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.
therevelator.org
June 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In case you missed it: I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org about the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate funding for the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey and what this would mean for bird research and conservation in the U.S. therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...
According to the Haikubox in my yard, my Chuck-Will's-Widow neighbors have been calling close to 3,000 times a night! Hickory County, Missouri 🪶 🍃 🔬
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
According to the Haikubox in my yard, my Chuck-Will's-Widow neighbors have been calling close to 3,000 times a night! Hickory County, Missouri 🪶 🍃 🔬
We're still hiring! This project is expected to continue for several years. Message me for details.
We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎
April 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We're still hiring! This project is expected to continue for several years. Message me for details.
Today's office: Out in the desert before sunrise for burrowing owl surveys, Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶
April 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today's office: Out in the desert before sunrise for burrowing owl surveys, Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶
Today's office: Moonset at sunrise. Clark County, Nevada 🌑
March 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Today's office: Moonset at sunrise. Clark County, Nevada 🌑
Reposted by Harley Winfrey
We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎
February 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎
We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎
February 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎
As someone who follows quite a few writers/creators, I will never be annoyed by their self-promotion. I consider myself fortunate to have a job where I don't have to advertise my work in order to get paid for it! 💙📚📘
I guess this is a reminder that I need to keep doing "Hey I wrote a cool book!!!" posts regularly as new people follow me! ☺️
February 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As someone who follows quite a few writers/creators, I will never be annoyed by their self-promotion. I consider myself fortunate to have a job where I don't have to advertise my work in order to get paid for it! 💙📚📘
Reposted by Harley Winfrey
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.