Indignant Chickadee
@indignantchickadee.bsky.social
Interested in interactions between birds, plants and insects. Birder. Writer. Professionally moonlighting as California native plant grower; native tree planter.
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Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/
Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Post a movie where you are from
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍
Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent
The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration's plans.
www.motherjones.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍
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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
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
While birdwatching this morning, this guy just sat on a post nearby for about 15 minutes, just eating and contemplating. It was in a undervisited preserve and I suspect that he usually has his special lunch spot to himself.
September 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
While birdwatching this morning, this guy just sat on a post nearby for about 15 minutes, just eating and contemplating. It was in a undervisited preserve and I suspect that he usually has his special lunch spot to himself.
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on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
August 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
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An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.
August 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.
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These cuts will disproportionately affect PBS and NPR stations across many Native Nations, including many communities across Alaska and the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico. Look at the map. 👀
Please donate to local stations in these areas! #PBS #NPR
Please donate to local stations in these areas! #PBS #NPR
All of Public Broadcasting needs help to weather the Trump CPB rescission, but if you're already a regular donor in a big media market, maybe pick a vulnerable station in a less-resourced region to support
President Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasters threatens scores of radio and TV stations across the U.S. Here is where the cuts threaten access to PBS and NPR.
July 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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It just took a bath under the nursery sprinklers.
July 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It just took a bath under the nursery sprinklers.
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In 2014 when I started working with Grasshopper Sparrows in Kansas, I was so sure that Florida Grasshopper Sparrows would be extinct within the decade.
Now look at this headline 🥹
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Now look at this headline 🥹
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
The unlikely comeback of America’s most endangered songbird
Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants.
www.nationalgeographic.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In 2014 when I started working with Grasshopper Sparrows in Kansas, I was so sure that Florida Grasshopper Sparrows would be extinct within the decade.
Now look at this headline 🥹
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Now look at this headline 🥹
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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The collapse of corporate media in the face of Trump is something to behold.
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The collapse of corporate media in the face of Trump is something to behold.
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The Residence has one of the best descriptions of convergent evolution in a TV show (yellow-throated longclaw vs eastern meadowlark), not what I expected in a political murder mystery.
On the other hand, the implication that sparrows, falcons, etc. are nocturnal subtracts a bit of the biology cred.
On the other hand, the implication that sparrows, falcons, etc. are nocturnal subtracts a bit of the biology cred.
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Residence has one of the best descriptions of convergent evolution in a TV show (yellow-throated longclaw vs eastern meadowlark), not what I expected in a political murder mystery.
On the other hand, the implication that sparrows, falcons, etc. are nocturnal subtracts a bit of the biology cred.
On the other hand, the implication that sparrows, falcons, etc. are nocturnal subtracts a bit of the biology cred.
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A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.
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April 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
California natives in bloom at Sonoma Developmental Center and Sonoma Valley Regional Park: Limnanthes douglasii; Lithophragma affine; Lomatium californicum; and Lupinus nanus.
April 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
California natives in bloom at Sonoma Developmental Center and Sonoma Valley Regional Park: Limnanthes douglasii; Lithophragma affine; Lomatium californicum; and Lupinus nanus.
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Santa Rosa, CA
April 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Santa Rosa, CA
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March 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Some scientists had argued that the “forest gardens” of the Pacific Northwest were accidental byproducts of fire, flood, or land clearing.
But a 2021 study showed the contrary: Indigenous peoples deliberately cultivated them. scim.ag/41Gocwe #InternationalDayOfForests
But a 2021 study showed the contrary: Indigenous peoples deliberately cultivated them. scim.ag/41Gocwe #InternationalDayOfForests
Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people
Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways
scim.ag
March 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Some scientists had argued that the “forest gardens” of the Pacific Northwest were accidental byproducts of fire, flood, or land clearing.
But a 2021 study showed the contrary: Indigenous peoples deliberately cultivated them. scim.ag/41Gocwe #InternationalDayOfForests
But a 2021 study showed the contrary: Indigenous peoples deliberately cultivated them. scim.ag/41Gocwe #InternationalDayOfForests