Nicholas Belardes

I googled. You can too.

I didn’t disturb this barn owl but a raccoon did. Mama then looked at me as if I might be tasty. I’m not, I said. 🪶

They’re baaaaaaaack! 🪶

That zoo, like many, has been in trouble before. It’s simple—I have trust issues with zoos. And I wouldn’t swallow paint just because someone said it was safe.

Hope that isn’t toxic paint. Can’t be good though.

Erewhon logo with the text "For Your Awards Consideration..."

Titles Motheater by Linda H. Codega The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotiere The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty

Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley rekt by Alex Gonzalez Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo

Titles Ten Sleep by Nicolas Belardes A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde The Changeling Queen by Kimberly Bea The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo

From the wonderous fantasy to mind-expanding sci-fi, from the depths of horror to the magical realms of the speculative, we're proud to have an expansive list of SFF fiction eligible this year for awards consideration!

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I'd never heard of them and read the NYT article and watched the vids of their performances and instantly fell in love with the band. I'm the anomaly! Been listening to their album. So good.

Boat ride time. One gray whale pod, a common short-beaked dolphin, mola mola, harbor porpoise, rhino auklets, murres, some shearwaters.

Re-found a King Eider today in Morro Bay, CA. 🥰✌🏽🪶

Key: G= greater white fronted C= cackling R= ross’s S= snow

Fun goose flock analysis. Test in the morning. 🪶

This will be a fun event on Feb. 7 in Atascadero, CA. We'll be giving away thirteen books, and have a bookseller. I'll be in conversation with NYT best-selling author Kalyn Josephson about all things eco-creepy.

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Sup Maggie 🪶

Snow Goose vs Ross’s Goose. 🪶

Sleepy friend.

Random explorations for seabirds. Montaña de Oro, CA.

Finally went to go see this local celeb—Lewis’s Woodpecker. 🪶

Beautiful pic!

Unless this is some mega-rare Yellow-rumped Warbler from Mexico or Guatemala, just gonna assume a hybrid Audubon’s x Myrtle with that throat pattern and bizarre chip call. 🪶

Let trash be trash! I’m all in on this sentiment.

Saw a Tundra Swan today—I wasn’t the finder. 🪶

Doesn’t get any weirder than finding a Yellow-breasted Chat in someone’s back patio condo tree. It then flew down into another tiny condo back patio. Wild place for one of these skulky birds. First Meadow Park record here in SLO County. 🥹🪶🐥

Ever want a size/color comprison between a Lucy’s Warbler and a Bushtit? Here you go. 🪶

Blackburning Warbler—first record for Meadow Park, SLO County, CA. 🪶

Franky Whitefeathers at his Meadow Park hangout. 🪶

Ruby takes a dip.

Meadow Park baffy

Dat me

Ooooo! Got my first Brown Thrasher in California at Big Morongo! 🪶