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Forestry 🌲 | Nature 🐝 | Strength training 🔥 | Travel 🌍

"Unless someone like you cares about whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -The Lorax
Red-footed booby (Sula sula) colony on O'ahu.

They're used to humans and like to watch as you walk by.

#birds #bird #birding #usbirding #redfootedbooby #birdcolony #seabird #hawaii #hawaiibirding #oahu #nature
December 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ae'o (Hawaiian stilt - Himantopus mexicanus knudseni)

Endangered Hawaiian waterbird. Cute little dudes.

#hawaii #birding #birds #usbirds #usbirding #waterbirds #hawaiianwaterbird
#hawaiianstilts #oahu #nature
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Some Hawai'i field work finds🔎

The cinnabar bracket fungus is one of the few natives at the project site 😅

#birds #bird #hawaii #oahu #conservation #fungus #ducks #nature #fieldwork
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
'Alae 'ula (Hawaiian moorhen | Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis)

This water bird is endemic to Hawai'i and currently endangered.

They're visually similar to the Common Gallinulle and also have calls that sound almost identical.

#birding #usbirds #birds #usbirding #hawaii #hawaiibirding #bird
August 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I wonder how hard it was to get that chair up there 🤔

#hawaii #oahu #explore #nature #outdoors #Hawaiianislands
August 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)

Naturalized in Hawai'i

📍O'ahu

#bird #birds #birding #usbirding #hawaii #hawaiibirding #nature
July 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hawaiian coot (Fulica alai)

Endemic to Hawaii. Looks very similar to the American coot, which has green feet and a smaller face shield.

📍O'ahu

#birds #bird #usbirding #birding #usbirds #hawaii #hawaiianbirds #nature
July 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Some busy white terns (Gygis alba) this morning.

They like to fly right over your head and next to you.

📍 Waikiki, O'ahu

#birds #bird #usbirding #birding #hawaii #hawaiibirding #nature #usbirds #coastalbirds
July 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Red-Crested cardinal (Paroaria coronata)

Native to S. America and a popular target in the illegal cage bird trade. Well established on O'ahu.

📍Honolulu

#usbirds #usbirding #birding #birds #nature #oahu #hawaii #hawaiibirding #bird #outdoors
July 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Common myna (Acridotheres tristis). Native to Asia and well-adapted to urban environments.

📍Fort Derussy Beach Park, O'ahu, Hawaii

#birding #birds #usbirding #nature #hawaii #oahu #outdoors #usbirds #bird
July 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Unless someone like you cares about whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." ~The Lorax

Blessed to be able to work in forestry 🌲 some recent field photos.

📍Mogollon Rim, Arizona

#forestry #nature #arizona #trees #wildwest #forest #publiclands #protectpubliclands
May 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Female gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) on a saguaro. Peep the second woodpecker poking it's head out of the nest cavity 🪶

📍Gilbert, AZ

#bird #birds #usbirding #birding #woodpecker #saguaro #arizona #Nature #flower
April 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'd like to hear the ridgeway rail instead, thanks 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️

#birds #bird #usbirds #birding #arizona #marshbirds #redwingedblackbird #meme
April 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Western burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) in Casa Grande, AZ today.

#bird #birds #usbirds #birding #burrowingowl #owls #arizona
April 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"End? No the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another adventure. One we all must take." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King~

#forest #snow #arizona #nature #lotr #lordoftherings #it'ssnowing #quotes
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
"Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I've found. I found it is the small things. Every day deeds by ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay." -Gandalf

#lordoftherings #quotes #flowers #nature #flower #spring #lotr #gandalf
April 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Storms that have rolled by while in the field 🌩

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."

#forestry #forest #nature #arizona #storms #storm #thunderstorm #explore #beauty
March 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Snow fix this year during field work! Absolutely stunning and the snow and fog made it so quiet.

#forest #forestry #arizona #snow #fieldwork #nature #photography #explore #adventure #adventureisoutthere
March 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Chiricahua leopard frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis)

Located in a spring at a project site in NE Arizona. The spring was overflowing with these little fellas.

#arizona #amphibians #frogs #frog #nature #explore #photography #forest
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Biggest ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) I've found so far, taping at 36" DBH.

Don't panic, this old guy will not be cut. See alt text for more details.

#forestry #forest #pine #ponderosapine #nature #trees #arizona #northernarizona #hazardousfuels #oldgrowth #tree #oldgrowthtree
February 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Western bluebirds (Sialia mexicana) hanging out with me during my lunch break in the woods.

#birds #birding #usbird #usbirding #westernbluebird #arizona #nature #mogollonrim #oak #forest
February 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Some of my favorite field finds so far. See alt text for details!

#forestry #nature #explore #outdoors
#arizona #wildlife #skeletons #bones #forests #wolves #wolf
February 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Reposted
A fluffy bushtit, one of about a dozen in my backyard this evening. I like it when wildlife comes to me 😁

#birds #bushtit #sheclicksnet #birdphotography #photography#birdwatching
February 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Ladder-backed woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris) searching for food on an ocotillo.

📍Sonoran Desert, Arizona - Nov. 2023

#birds #bird #usbirds #birding #usbird #woodpecker #nature #arizona #sonorandesert #explore
February 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
House sparrow (Passor domesticus)

#birds #bird #usbirding #usbird #usbirds #arizona #nature #sparrow
February 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM