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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦
@meredithblunt.art
1.6K followers 140 following 230 posts
Artist, community enthusiast, bird obsessed
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Based in KW, Ontario

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Thank you my friends, collaborators and team at Bird Friendly Kitchener for wrapping up our May and showing up for my commitments

Thanks for the thoughts and love and distractions that have been sent, they’re appreciated.

I’ll be back with my birds and plans in due course 🪶
We are, for now, a multigenerational home. Dad’s cardiologist and vascular surgeon want him close by during this recovery. Within couple of days, I suspect between the the forest fire smoke being a bad irritant along the stress and worry she’s been through as well as being asthmatic - my mum came down with pneumonia. We are a home of rest and recovery right now. They are both, for the most part, except when impatience hits them, good patients. I’m glad to be able to be an advocate, an organizer, an anything they need while they get better. But I was very scared, I recognize I probably still am. I would be remiss to not say that incredibly special friends got me through this I’m navigating from a place that is the furtherest from my plans for June. I apologize for delays on art, posts, chats, reports, or time together. My bandwidth is pretty low. And I’m pretty tired. The nurses and teams at WRHN @ Queen’s and Guelph General did save my dad’s life. And treated us all with such kindness and dignity through this. A Thank You doesn’t cover any of the gratitude and relief I feel. I’m starting to take moments to do the things I do for me - gardening and walking and bird watching. A friend enforced daytrip to Aberfoyle for antiquing. A little normalcy. If you catch me out walking and watching my birds tell me who you’ve seen today. Our good birds are good help. Thanks for making my show at Seven Shores and the whole shebang of BFCKs World Migratory Bird May such personal and public successes. Thanks for being good people 🤍
June 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is a lot. But here we are. The images share the story.

Thank you WRHN @ Queens and Guelph General

Thank you to my two dear friends in healthcare for being exactly yourselves and who I needed to get me through and be the best advocate for my parents.
I don’t share a lot of family stories or ‘behind the scenes’. I am going to share this one because I didn’t just *poof* vanish and bugger off after my show at Seven Shores and the whole month in Square Peg representing Bird Friendly Kitchener I’m sharing it because there’s good reason I’m not posting, not drawing, slow to text or email. There’s a good reason my June has not been one of art and gardening On May 30th, I was packing up the final box of our World Migratory Bird May in Square Peg and anticipating celebrating with my bird friendly city team, Matt let me know I had to stop and we needed to go to the hospital. He’d had texts from E and my mum that my dad was having chest pains. I was at WRHN @ Queen in minutes and with my folks. It felt like time slowed to a crawl in the Emergency Room. Seconds feel like hours Dad indeed had a heart attack and then another in the emergency room. Then we were in the cardiac ward. Things went from scary to nightmarish when my dad suffered a femoral haemorrhage after complications with installing a stent, this resulted in emergency surgery in Guelph in the very early hours of June 2 and a third, more serious heart attack on June 3. Dad was brought back to WRHN via emergency transport - all high speed, lights and sirens. We caught one glimpse of his ambulance as they booked it out of Guelph. The intervention of the nurses in Guelph and the WRHN’s CCU managed to level down this third heart attack and when Dad was stable they successfully installed two stents. Dad stayed on the cardiac ward at WRHN until June 6.
June 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#addBirder

Could have sworn I asked to be a part this feed already but maybe not 🤷‍♀️

I love drawing bird feet SO much! This little one’s delicate balancing grip was a delight to draw.

#birds #birdart #tradart #wildlife #nature #art #ornithology
Watercolour and ink drawing of a prairie warbler by me
May 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Cerulean warbler

The warbler for May 25 of #warbleradayMay

#birdart #birds #watercolour #art #tradart
Watercolour drawing of a cerulean warbler by me
May 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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American redstart

My favourite of our warblers!🖤🧡🤍

Oh they are so fun. Redstarts flash bright patches on their wings and tails, orange on males and yellow on females to flush out bugs to eat. So these beautiful little ones can be seen flapping and fanning, working hard for tiny snacks

#birds #art
American redstart drawn by me in 2024 American redstart drawn by me in 2023
May 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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@twbcoop.bsky.social is awesome all the time but because I am incredibly biased they are extra awesome with bird beers!!!

Bird Friendly Blonde and Junco City are my labels! 🤪

Thank you for the support of @bfck.bsky.social and for everything TWB ♥️

#birds #beer #supportlocal
Four beers from TWB Brewery in Kitchener ON
May 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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In support of @bfck.bsky.social I lent a junco drawing to a T-shirt. It is the first time my art has been on a tee :)

Sales help support the conservation and engagement efforts of Bird Friendly Kitchener

If you’re in Kitchener or anywhere! Get Junco city here 👇
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Me wearing the limited edition Junco City Tshirt
April 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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It is our lovely pup’s 6th birthday today.

Dogs are beings of all the feelings and sometimes all the love and happiness overwhelms Cookie, but she is such a good girl.

Our Cuckoo, our Cookie Monster. 🐕

#dog
#doodle
#animalcompanions
#birthday
#dogsofbluesky
#pet
Portrait of a shaggy golden dog Shaggy golden dog sitting in the sun on a chair outside
April 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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It’s the duck of democracy.

Be like this duck (it’s a greater scaup btw) and flap on over to your nearest polling station

Vote 🗳️

#canpoli #canadianelection2025 #greaterscaup #ducks #birds #tradart
My ink and watercolour drawing of a greater scaup
April 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I consider it a personal success when you make your friend cry happy tears on her birthday 🥹 😈

And look, I did not draw a bird

#handmade
#handmadegiftsarethebest
#cat
#catdrawing
#watercolor
#traditionaldrawing
Watercolor and ink drawing of a cloud calico cat by me
April 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I would love to sketch out a Mere doll for the trend all over the internets but without the machine learning and AI thievery, but I have no time and the flash in the pan will be over when I do 🤷‍♀️

So here’s my Timberdoodle instead
#meep
#traditionalart
#traditionalartist
#woodcock
#timberdoodle
My drawing of an American woodcock
April 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A year ago I drew a Cuban Tody.

Cute, super green and a delight to draw for a friend who fell in love with these borbs when he went birding in Cuba.

#cubantody #tody #birds #birdart #cuba
Watercolour drawing of a Cuban tody by me.
April 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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@bfck.bsky.social and I have been hard at work!

This will be Kitchener’s first celebration of #worldmigratorybirdday with World Migratory Bird MAY!

We’re launching a month of bird friendly events and local shopping. Check out what we’ve got in the works🪶

bfck.waterlooregionnature.ca/events/list/
Advertisement for the month long programming my bird friendly Kitchener team and I have coming in May
April 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Good one Terry

#opossum #joke
Joke comic of an opossum pulling a fast one on the Grim Reaper. The Reaper calls the opossum Terry indicating that these shenanigans aren’t a new thing.
April 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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🩶
My bird from a year ago and what I wrote about. I still have my Whiskeyjack, she’s one of my favourites.

#whiskeyjack #wisakedjak #canadajay #grayjay #birds #birdart #art #drawing #education #learningthroughnature #learningthroughart
Text about the drawing in the third image Text about the drawing in the third image Watercolour and ink drawing of a bird known as the Whiskeyjack, Grey Jay or Canada Jay
April 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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#onthisday
#blackcappedchickadee
#chickadee
#birdart
#birds
March 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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White text on a black field. A reaction to the press conference held in The White House on Feb 28 2025 White text on a black field. A reaction to the press conference held in The White House on Feb 28 2025
March 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Red-bellied woodpecker from Feb. 25 2023.

Wondering if we’ll get these backyard beauties again this year. ❤️🖤🤍

#onthisday
#redbelliedwoodpecker
#birdart
#birds
#woodpecker
#wip
#watercolour
#tradart
February 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Watercolour and ink drawings of chimney swifts Poster of backyard birds of Kitchener Watercolour and ink drawing of a ring billed full
February 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Watercolour and ink drawing of a Robin Watercolour and ink drawing of a house wren with a whimsical fairy Watercolour and ink drawing of a loon Watercolour and ink drawing of a group of a goldeneyes
February 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Point Pelee is offering its Artist-in-Residence opportunity I’d like to know which five of these drawings you think I should submit for consideration!

Help me choose! Check the thread 👇

Thanks 🪶

#birdart
#birds
#backyardbirds
#art
#artists
#watercolour
#ink
#drawing
#nature
#wildlife
#tradart
Watercolour and ink drawing of a whiskeyjack bird Sparrows collage poster Watercolour and ink drawing of downy woodpecker Watercolour and ink drawing of an ovenbird
February 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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My alarm clock has one setting.

Rage MrrrrWOOWWW! 🚨 ‼️⏰

She is cute though. Zoom in on that face! 🐈‍⬛

#cat
#catsofbluesky
#blackcat

(I’m normally up offensively early but have got spectacularly low levels of iron going on lately and feel so very tired and slow)
A little black cat staring me down to get out of bed a feed her.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Sorry … incoming complaint.

I’ve struggled to get traction and followers and eyes on my art. This IG account has more than 20K followers including me because I love these birds and they stole my Timberdoodle for self-promotion.

Wtf man

#art
#birds
#stolenart
#creditartists
#thatsmypeent
This is a screen capture of an art thief THIS IS MY ART. THAT IS MY NAME IN MY HANDWRITING WITH THE DAT I DRAW IT.
February 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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A patron returning is such a wonderful thing

In 2024 I drew the Carolina Wrens for the birthday of a patron’s little granddaughter, who is bestowed with the name Wrenley.

For 2025 a House Wren was the requested bird.

And little fairy friends in each 🧚

#art
#birds
#wren
#fairy
#tradart
#nature
A drawing of a house wren on a bird house surrounded by climbing ivy. There is a little fairy peeking out A pair of Carolina wrens perched on an old fence post and vines with a berry fairy tucked away
February 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This is important. Like really important.

It’s bigger than “ick I don’t like rats and we have a rat problem”

Canada’s approach to pesticides is unregulated and grossly inadequate.

Petition e-5320 champions that. Please sign and share.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Graphic for e-petition e-5320 depicting some of the animals harmed by poisons intended for insects and rodents Graphic for e-petition e-5320 depicting some of the animals harmed by poisons intended for insects and rodents and the asks of the petition Humane housekeeping list to pest proof your properties Graphic for e-petition e-5320 depicting some of the animals harmed by poisons intended for insects and rodents
February 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM