Kelsey 🐞 Reckling

The first of three bird monitoring stations is now up and running in the Santa Monica Mountains! 🐤🐦🐤🐦🐤🐦

6am, 37 degrees, 7.5 months pregnant and we are BACK for Season 6 at Bear Divide!!! #springmigration

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Is this thing on?!

On this unassuming trail near LA, bird watchers see something spectacular At Bear Divide, just outside Los Angeles, you can see a rare spectacle of nature. This is one of the only places in the western United States where you can see bird migration during daylight hours.

Check out our Bear Divide bird migration research on NPR! 🐤 www.npr.org/2024/05/13/1...

And just like that, we’re back for the 2024 Bear Divide Migration Count! Today we had decent movements of American Robins, Lawrence’s Goldfinches, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Follow along: beardivide.org

One building. One morning. Almost 1,000 dead birds.

I can’t even imagine what the numbers are across the entire city of Chicago.

Please consider turning lights off in your home and offices over night as our feathered friends make their journey south!

📸 Daryl Coldren
#lightsout #birds

hello blue sky