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Maddie
@maddiejayy.bsky.social
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Biologist and obsessive birder. CA » OR » NC.
Co-leader of Feminist Bird Club Durham.
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Been a minute since I’d seen a Loggerhead Shrike. 🪶
A small mostly gray bird with a black mask and black wingtips perched on a small branch. It has a small hooked bill and a long black tail.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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YEAAAAAH!!!
Pinkish reddish aurora borealis over the horizon. Pinkish aurora borealis over the horizon. Bright pinkish reddish aurora borealis over the horizon.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A Winter Wren trying to figure out how to best eat a spider. 😂 🪶 #birds #birding
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A cutie Pine Warbler from today. He was mere feet from me. 🪶
A mostly yellow warbler on the ground surrounded by orange and yellow leaves. He is facing to the right.
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Young Common Yellowthroat out in the open. I cherish these moments. 😂 🪶
A small warbler with yellow throat and belly, and brown head with some black feathers starting to come in, perched on a branch.
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Officially in my late 30s as of yesterday. 🤪 Here’s me and the flamingo I fed.
A white woman with black hair and wearing a black jacket and brown pants holds her hand out to a flamingo to offer it food.
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I got to feed a flamingo today. 🪶
October 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Not a bird… a flying squirrel!
A squirrel pokes its face out of a tree cavity.
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Cameron and I went and carved pumpkins with goats today.
A tan/white goat with blue eyes gets its cheek scratched. A goat stands on a table while my partner pats its side and I scratch its head. There are also pumpkins on the table. A goat sprawling out on a wooden table with its front legs straight out in front of it. The goat is surrounded by pumpkins on the table. An archway decorated with giant spiderwebs, with a pumpkin patch in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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My partner isn’t a birder, but he sure is a keeper!
Screenshot of a text between myself and my boyfriend. Boyfriend: Currently researching native bird species in Haiti so I can make the bird song sound design accurate You're welcome Me: Hahaha I love you Boyfriend: I love you too! We got the Hipaniolan Trogon We got magnificent frigatebirds We got grey kingbirds And the Hispaniola woodpecker Me: Hell yeah haha I saw frigatebirds in Texas Boyfriend: I can't believe they're actually named "magnificent frigatebirds"
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Here’s a Nashville Warbler from the weekend. 🪶
A warbler with a gray head and back, yellow throat and belly. It is perched on a branch facing down and to the right. A close up of a warbler that it gray on its head and back, yellow underneath, with a white eye ring. A Nashville warbler perched on a small branch with green leaves hanging around it.
October 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Bruh. 🖕🏻
A positive Covid test.
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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FBC is doing a Birdathon again this year! 🪶

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Flyer that reads: 2025 Birdathin a fundraiser for + Birders of Palestine Saturday, October 18 @ Sandy Creek Park 8:30 am - 10:30 am attendance not required for participation in Birdathon take part and/or donate 10/17-10/21
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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My mom just sent me this photo of my 18 year old cat, Truffles, and man she does not look as old as she is. 😻
A brown and white cat with bright blue eyes loafing in a square whicker basket.
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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I got my lifer Brown Booby yesterday. 🪶
A large seabird that is mostly brown with a white belly. It has yellow feel and a yellow and pinkish bill. There are branches obscuring part of its face.
September 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Look at them!!
September 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Look at this very handsome Plain-bellied Watersnake I met earlier. A lifer! 😍
A snake with a black back and orange belly.
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Magnolia Warbler! What a little cutie. 🪶
A small bird that is yellow underneath and gray on its head and neck. It is perched on a small branch, facing toward the right.
September 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Well we got smoked out at work today (everyone’s fine, AC unit broke and sent smoke through all the vents), so we got to go home early. Can’t complain about that during fall migration! 😂
Two firemen in front of a building with white smoke coming from the side of it.
September 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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We love fall migration. Perfect backdrop for this Blue-winged Warbler. 🪶
A mostly yellow warbler with a black eyeline perched on a lichen covered branch.
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Can’t believe I managed to get two warbler species in one shot! This Magnolia Warbler was taking a bath while the Northern Waterthrush was busy foraging! 🪶
Two birds are down in the muddy water. The one on the left have a bright yellow belly and rump, yellow/greenish back, and gray head. The one on the right is larger, with a brown back/head with a lighter belly with steaks.
September 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Always a joy to see Monarch caterpillars! #inverts
A black and white and yellow striped caterpillar hangs off of a leaf. A monarch caterpillar, which is striped white black and yellow, munched on a milkweed leaf.
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Just some Hackberry Emperor butterflies trying to drink our sweat yesterday. Feels real funny being probed with a proboscis. 😂 #inverts
A butterfly perched on the hat worn by a woman. A butterfly on a tattooed arm, with its proboscis out. A woman wearing a hat has a butterfly hanging onto her black hair. A butterfly perched on back of someone wearing a white shirt.
September 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I’ve never seen phalaropes spin on land before 😂 Wilson’s Phalaropes 🪶
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Whoa, how cool is this?? Fall Webworms #invertefest
August 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM