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Harley Winfrey
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Professional birdwatcher. No really.
Today's office: Setting up solar-powered game cameras to monitor Burrowing Owls! Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶 🌕 🌵
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
Ahh there's even some food description in this section!
September 22, 2025 at 2:57 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 🪶 🍃 🔬
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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: Moonset at sunrise. Clark County, Nevada 🌑
March 15, 2025 at 8:12 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. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎
February 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid 🎬
December 12, 2024 at 2:15 AM
I've reached the 20-movie mark for 2024. Here's my rankings so far:
Still planning to see a few more, including Flow and War of the Rohirrim this weekend! 🎬 📽 #Letterboxd
December 10, 2024 at 11:19 PM
I saw my #600 Black Swift, then Western Flycatcher got lumped, then saw #600 Greater Pewee, then the Redpolls got lumped. Looking forward to seeing a third #600 soon! 🪶
December 10, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Today's office: a Common Poorwill feather! Exciting to know that one or more are in torpor nearby, sleeping away the desert winter. Clark County, Nevada 🪶
December 10, 2024 at 4:25 PM
My #boardgame plays in November. First time plays of Charcuterie, Command of Nature, and Undergrove. Undergrove was my favorite. You know it's a good game when you keep thinking about it for days afterward! 🍄♟️
December 4, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Today's office: a Loggerhead Shrike's larder! Looks like a Desert Stink Beetle, impaled on a Mojave Yucca by a butcher bird. Clark County, Nevada 🪶 🍃 🪲
December 3, 2024 at 3:52 PM
It works! I got my QLL library card today, and Libby immediately lit up with books from my wishlist. One was by @feliciadavin.com and I first heard about QLL from her newsletter, so this might be the least lucrative payola scheme I've heard of. 😂

But please do support QLL!
🌈 📚 📘
November 25, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Throwback Thursday: 11 years ago today, still my closest encounter with a Spotted Skunk, at Snow Canyon State Park in Utah.
🍃📷 #wildlife #photography
November 21, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Bird Job Posting: "Hiring experienced bird banders (experience with MAPS protocol preferred) March 1 through May 30, 2025 on Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. Job posting here: $3300/month + flights. birdpop.org/docs/jobs/IB... "
I worked for IBP a few (ok 14) years ago and they are a great org. 🪶🍃🌍
October 31, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Nevada automatically sends all registered voters mail ballots and text message receipts. There's no reason (except vote suppression) why every state couldn't do this. Another example of inequality in our election system. 🗳 ☑️ 🇺🇸
October 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Camping out near #todaysoffice to avoid a long drive home or an expensive hotel. Slept on a cot under the stars among the Joshua trees in Esmerelda County, Nevada ⛺️ 🌟 🌔
October 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Today's office: Nye County, Nevada. It feels like the first day of fall, with rain and cold winds blowing in! Seems appropriate with only 2 weeks left in the baseball season. (Go Royals!) 📷 🍃🍂 🌎 ⚾️
September 16, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Today's office. I love the desert, even though it's prickly! 🍃 🌵 🌎 📷
September 10, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Today's office mate: a well-camouflaged Speckled Rattlesnake in Esmerelda County, Nevada
🐍 🦎 🍃 🌎 📷
September 6, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Today's office: not bad for a substation!
Clark County, Nevada 🍃 📷 🌎
August 28, 2024 at 4:22 PM
My methodology:
Lived here - had a mailing address
Stayed here - had a job there for at least a month
Visited here - slept here; camped out in all but Puerto Rico!
Stopped here - visited a park or refuge
Passed here - just drove through (it was the middle of the night!)
#WildlifeBiologist
August 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
My most recent five-star movies watched 🎥 🎬
August 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Tonight's office: sunset from Pilot Peak, Mineral County, Nevada 📷🌎🌿
August 16, 2024 at 1:40 AM