MG

@megarnson.bsky.social

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Government science communicator in the Seattle area. I work with environmental scientists to make their work more accessible, usable, and enduring. Opinions are my own. Also really into birds, books, baseball, and baking.

One pale sea slug and one yellow sea slug spot on a mostly submerged rock surrounded by a variety of green and red sea plants
A small clothing shop in Thailand called G.Armani. The building is white, there are clothes mannequins in the window, and blue stools on the sidewalk.
A green and red-streaked male chum salmon splashes in shallow water beside a black and white splotched female
Green and pink lights in the sky in sort of a star shape
A large light brown moon snail being held by a volunteer naturalist during low low tide
Animal tracks in the mud under shallow water, beneath a low bridge. Beaver? River otter? Raccoon?
A fluffy owl chick stands on a forest floor and stares at the camera
A baby barred owl claws, bird, and flaps its way up a redwood trunk. A parent watches from nearby.
A stadium full of people with their cell phone flashlights on
A mailer on support of Dionne Foster
An adult beaver sits shaving in tall green vegetation
A juvenile lamprey tries to dig underneath gravel at the bottom of a stream. It's grey, skinny, and about 5 inches long.
A fledgling peregrine falcon perches on a distance 8th floor window ledge
A fluffy pale baby barred owl peers down from green branches. The wings and tail of its parent are visible nearby.
A white and grey adult barred owl perches on a small high branch close to a tree trunk.
A fluffy grey and black baby barred owl sits on the ground below its nesting area.
A bird with a red head, black face and back, and white chin and underside clings to a big brown tree trunk.
A bird with narrow black and white back stripes and a red head is mostly hidden by tree branches and leaves.
A phainopepla from a different hike perched on a tall shrub. Not a Costa's hummingbird family, but still a great bird!
The cover of the book 'I Want My Hat Back' by Jon Klassen. A hatless bear gazes off confused/ sad but determined/ wistful/ like it's remembering the good times it had with that hat.
A green heron sits at the edge of a pond near dead branches and green plants.
A broken hummingbird nest made of moss, plant matter, and some sort of hair or fiber all woven together.
Wind up teeth toy with eyes and feet for some reason? It's looking right at us.
A grey and white wedge-tailed shearwater asleep in its nest under a sign that reads, "Birds only beyond this sign"
A clear plastic-looking finned disc with lines like tree rings sits on a hand. A Ricky beach is in the background.
A black and white stripey bird with a bright yellow head and black around its eyes. It's perched high above, beside a small hole in a palm tree trunk.
A large(ish), brown and white streaked bird is mostly obscured by evergreen branches. It stretches tall to peek out to the left with its piecing yellow eyes.
A small bird on a stone wall with a dark blue/violet huckleberry in its beak. The bird has a sooty brown back, reddish tail, and brown and white streaked belly.