parker (Lucanus)

maam..

@curtise3 lots of swallowtails too it seems

@hwurmp Really??

monarchs already out…

@fairieteeth over a million described species i might add

@fairieteeth i’ve dabbled quite a bit in insect taxonomy and it doesn’t even feel as weird as bird taxo does

meadowlarks are… blackbirds?

the woodcock window is closing rapidly i need to see him

@fairieteeth im shocked by where i saw it… it was at this very small barely a woodland with a bit of wetland at one end

@hwurmp that’s insane that you just randomly stumbled upon him!!! ive gone looking for them when people have reported them and haven’t had any luck yet. you also got a pretty good picture, i think any picture that actually shows them at all is a good one lol

I JUST SAW A BITTERN

@fairieteeth i was so excited to see him… unfortunately i flushed him because i had no idea he was there until it moved (was looking for a sharpie that was nearby)

@hwurmp NO WAY that’s one of my nemesis birds 😭 so happy for you though they’re super rare and hard to see even when they are around!!

i dreamt of grebes last night

@fairieteeth american

@hwurmp WHATTT CONGRATS an american bittern or least bittern??? i still have never seen an amerian bittern

good scope for someone just getting into looking at things?

@jellovella that’s exactly what he wants you to think

@hwurmp I see... the Brown 🟤 thing

@autism_monarch @jellovella the comma

Genus Polygonia? Help! #bugtwt 📍Redwood National Park, CA, USA

@jellovella i think you can see some of it’s back here. maybe not now that i’m taking another look but it’s a bittern and thus cryptic

@hwurmp Oomf can i get a red circle pleadse

people don’t seem to understand that they are both the egg and the sperm

@fauxmantis i never thought of it this way

cheeeeeese bur ger

@daviddadummy lowkey pretty awesome i was awestruck

@hwurmp how does it feel to live my dream bro 😭

@TemmieMew i may not have message requests on currently i am changing it now

@hwurmp the rare bird alert discord servers! people like to use the county chat channels to plan meetups and stuff. i’ll dm you the link to illinois

how do you meet other birders locally