Tim Graves

@ibirdsometimes.bsky.social

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Bronx birder and nature photographer. Interested in baseball, native plant gardening, and housing and transportation policy. I was saying boo-urns.

A mostly black wasp on a leaf with its abdomen held aloft.
A close-up photo of a fly that looks a little bit like a bee sitting on a leaf.
An orange moth with white stripes on a hanging bedsheet
A female Baltimore Oriole putting the finished touches on her hanging nest made of fine material like dried grass and pieces of reeds.
A graph of the price of SpaceX stock showing that it has lost a third of its value over the last month.
A dark-colored wasp clinging vertically to leaves of an aster plant.
The front of a Fisker Ocean car with plate number MGT9239
A picture of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney
An “I voted” sticker in Knicks orange and blue with a basketball design.
A patch of bright orange flowering milkweed in front of a brink house.
An orange and white kitten attacking a pipe cleaner
Another orange and white kitten.
An orange and white kitten
A kitten with a gray head and white face.
A super-cute brown tabby kitten.
A weird, green growth on a hackberry tree stem caused by a tiny insect called a psyllid.
A weird, slimy, pointed, orange fungus growing on a dripping wet eastern red cedar tree.
Purple spiderwort flowers, pale blue bluestar flowers and deep red roses next to a brick house with ferns and asters not yet in bloom.
A top-down view of a bunch of buds and one open yellow daisy-like flower.
A nice ripe strawberry
A crested caracara perched atop a saguaro cactus with its head tucked in and its tail fanned out.
A little gray yellow-eyed junco on the roof of a car
A crested caracara with its head tucked in and tail fanned out on top of a saguaro cactus
A pinkster azalea in bloom in a forested park
Two Crested Caracaras perched on a distant saguaro cactus with mountains in the background
A Crested Caracara about to land on the top of a saguaro cactus
A crested caracara flying with wings spread and a mountain in the background
A male hooded merganser with its bill tucked in
A naked Homer Simpson being dragged up the angled glass wall in a church while dangling from a hot air balloon.
A bright red male Vermillion Flycatcher perched on a twig
A screenshot of an eBird checklist containing Red-bellied, Downy, Hairy, and Pileated Woodpecker as well as Northern Flicker.
A purple violet flower growing in my yard.
A silhouette of a saguaro cactus against the mountains and the night sky.
A small brown and gray flycatcher with a white eye ring perched on a branch.
A new train platform with a roof.
A quote from Rachel Carson: “those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
Weird looking purple and green skunk cabbage leaves just starting to emerge from a leaf-covered swampy forest floor.
A very calm Long Island Sound with rocky islands visible through the mist.
A black and white male Long-tailed duck on the water in profile.
A common eider on the water with its wings out facing toward the camera.
A gorgeous male intricately patterned Harlequin Duck on the water
A male bufflehead on the water chasing away two males and a female.
A gray and white tufted titmouse perched on a small branch
A red-breasted nuthatch on the right side of a tree trunk and the butt of a white-breasted nuthatch poking out from behind the left side of the trunk.
A male Eastern Bluebird in profile perched on top of a stick.
A female Eastern Bluebird poking her head out of the hole in a wooden nest box.
A gray squirrel perched in a tree gnawing on a chicken bone.
A Crested Caracara sharing a dead nestling bird to eat with its partner who is perched on the edge of their humongous nest in a saguaro cactus.
The distant silhouette of a great horned owl against a pink and orange sunset.
An American Tree Sparrow with a rusty cap and a half-yellow bill perched on a stick.
A cooper’s Hawk perched on a branch
A bright yellow Pine Warbler perched in a (surprise surprise) pine tree.
A plump red and gray fox sparrow sitting on a platform bird feeder filled with sunflower seeds.
An adult Cooper’s Hawk on the snowy ground with bloody prey in its talons.
A grayish duck with a brown head and a bright orange bill floating in chilly water.
A male Canvasback duck with its head tucked in so all you see is a blob of white, black and a bit of red on the head.
Looking up from under a tree covered with snowy red berries.
A screenshot of an email showing that I submitted 166 checklists, saw 336 species, got 25 lifers and counted 27,843 birds.