Featherfalling

For eldestearth on bsky, a Yellow-billed Magpie! Thank you for your Waymakers donation!

Finally, the last of the Waymakers birds, for my mom, who helped me on a Grasshopper Sparrow project this summer. Thanks so much for the support - not just for Waymakers but everything else, too!

For @sashabarkov, a male American Kestrel! Here he is, scouring the field of dead sunflowers for mice feeding on the fallen seeds. Thanks for the Waymakers donation!

Rupert, an owlbear character by DaFoxyFox for Art Fight.

Johnnies 11-20!! I mean ok some of these have multiple. But also one is just an eye, one is barely there, and I didn't count the one that is just hands. I think my favorite thing about both sets is the color scheme - they're not all the exact same but there's a satisfying consistency to it regardless.

Here's this year's intergrade Northern Flicker chart! A few old faces still hanging around from past years, which is always a treat, but I've got some real weird newbies, too. "Yellow" there even has his own nickname in my head because he stands out so much.

For those who missed past years' posts: I live in the intergrade zone for Northern Flickers and usually get a bunch of them in my yard every winter. Probably every 5 out of 6 flickers at my suet feeder is an intergrade - it's a really unusually high rate! Since each one has a unique head pattern, I keep track of individuals and enjoy drawing portraits for them every year.

Most Northern Flickers are either red-shafted (primarily western) or yellow-shafted (primarily eastern). Each of these two groups comes with a predictable head pattern and underwing color. The intergrades shuffle all of those pieces and recombine them!

For SciArtSeptember 14: Glowing

Hello! Reaching out from Way Out There wiki to let you know: we are running a giveaway for careful observers who enjoy decoding secret messages. Details are on our Instagram/Youtube/TikTok @wayouttherewiki

You do not have to join any of those platforms to participate, it's for the whole Lord Huron community. If you feel like chasing a ghost, there's 13 little handmade Spectral Investigator badges to be won.

I want to particularly note how amazing the ambient piece of "Used to Know" umbra put together for our PSA, in the 11th hour, because we were trying to problem solve some uploading issues with the forces that our eyes can't see. umbra's take has this dreamy Bladerunner vibe - one of my favourite films - I feel badly talking over their work, it's so cool. Makes me want to film something for it specifically...