"Stopover" teableau for 10/10/23

#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #FallMigration #PacificFlyway #Birdhouse #SnowGoose #Autumn #Fall #BlackTea #NorthwestBreakfastTea #MarketSpice #Portmeirion #VintageChina #BisqueFigurines #Birds

While walking the wetland refuge this afternoon with my wife and daughter, we came upon a host of #TundraSwans. Then, rising up out of the reeds, these two beautiful #SandhillCranes began moving across the marsh as though mirroring our path. It was like tumbling into a folktale.

#Wetlands #Birding #Oregon #PacificFlyway

It's migration day for me, so: an #Introduction

I’m Jess (🏳️‍🌈🏴♾️ ), a #poet & #writing lecturer in #Oregon. I love #reading, #gaming #knitting (esp. #amigurumi), and #birding.

Last read: #TheTerraformers

Last played: #SakunaOfRiceAndRuin

Last spotted: Sandhill crane

Currently #LowCarbonBirding (lucky to live along the #PacificFlyway).

I mostly post (amateur) #photography from my birding jaunts (mourning my lost posts), but, new instance, so who knows?

#AltText on all images.

Most people that I meet on my photography adventures don't know that "taking pictures for Wikipedia" is a thing. So, when I'm out shooting, I often engage in conversations about how Wikipedia needs more photos. That's what happened this morning, when I took this image for the article "Greater white-fronted goose":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_white-fronted_goose

Please consider sharing your photos with a global audience through #Wikipedia !

#PacificFlyway #wikiphotographer #birdphotography #wikimediacommons

It's such a breath of fresh air here! Honestly, I can feel my body relax and tension abate. I told my friend Carmen that I feel like I need to make hot cocoa and pad around Mastodon quietly in hand knit socks because it's so comfortable. I think on the bird app I got so used to bracing myself for impact or attack. Since 2009, the app had changed dramatically.

Some of the many things I do for work are #advocacy, #TribalConsultations and #networking for my village. My background is in #TraditionalMedicine and #TribalJustice. I'm finishing a degree in #TribalEnvironmentalScience. May seem like a lot, but when you come from a small village in SW #Alaska, you don't just wear a lot of hats-you have a whole wardrobe!

I come from a #DisplacedTribe from the Southwestern #BeringSeaCoast. I am #Yup'ik, one of the 11 distinct #AlaskaNativeCultures. My village is pretty much in some of the best #MigratoryBirdNestingGrounds and on the #PacificFlyway. The #YukonDeltaNationalWildlifeRefuge decided to impose itself over our homelands. We are surrounded by refuge lands.

If you hadn't heard, #TyphoonMerbok ravaged a number of communities in #WesternAlaska. The blended village where I'm from of #HooperBay was one of them. I'm working hard to help my people relocate to my ancestral lands 15 miles north of Hooper Bay in the #AskinukMountains.

Aside from #PermafrostThaw, #DeclineInSeaIce, #WarmingOcean and #CoastalErosion, we see other effects of #ClimateChange. Changes in migration patterns, drying peat boga and shrubification among some of those examples.

Looking forward to seeing some of you involved in #Ecology, #ClimateChange #MarineScience and more at the #TheInstituteForTribalEnvironmentalProfessionals (ITEP) is excited to host the second Biennial #NationalTribalAndIndigenousClimateConference (NTICC)

https://sites.google.com/view/nticc-itep/home