Arty (Cynthia)

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline www.bbc.com/future/artic... #birding

One Chart That Explains The 2026 B.C. Election

100 days of bird art

Not a fam of these results but I guess all we can do now is see how things go.

punkin dunkin

It’s been north/south for decades and my eight year old story explains why! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#Kelowna - 'How hard could it be?': Kelowna candidate with viral signs gets elected www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Longleat Safari Park has named their Daily red panda Sundar! Look at the handsome lad!

Get a postcard from Antarctica! Sign up here: www.patreon.com/cw/arielwald... I am headed back to Antarctica to film an entirely new documentary and I could use your help to bring this project to life. Please share!

STEW YOUNG IS BACK BABY The 30 year mayor of Langford, defeated four years ago, wins big in his rematch. Most incumbents defeated, with the exception of Colby Harder. WINDS. OF. CHANGE.

Here is our livepage for our coverage of local elections tonight. It includes a livestream of our broadcast — where I'll be delivering results — and will include my written analysis as things progress. Election nights are my favourite news event of the year, and we're a big team. Hope you enjoy.

Did you know? BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. Deep personal and corporate tax cuts in the early 2000s, the elimination of the carbon tax and declining natural resources revenues have all contributed to eroding BC’s fiscal capacity

Daily birds 91 - Kākāpō

So sad to hear that the iconic, trailblazing, Apollo 11 moon landing software engineering lead, Margaret Hamilton, is no longer with us. Love this image of her, standing next to a print out of the software that landed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amstrong on the moon! 👩‍🔬🔭🛰️🧪 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Daily birds 81 - Superb fairy wren having a little soak

Yeah again this is incorrect. Mainstreet gave the Conservatives a 2.7% vote lead, well within the margin of error, and were within 1 seat of their predictions for MLAs elected I get that lots of people only remember polls that are incorrect, but you're doing yourself a disservice with this stuff

Final list of number of candidates for all main parties for B.C.’s 93 provincial electoral districts: Conservative Party — 93 NDP — 92 Greens — 73 CentreBC — 35 OneBC — 33 NDP staff on the bus were very confident telling me I was wrong about claims they weren’t fielding a full slate 🙃

Some details on the new tax on people making more than a million a year if the NDP is re-elected. Would also increase taxes on anyone making more than $190,000.

I feel like I've gone back in time. Only 1 councillor candidate has a website in the #Highlands. How do you know what the platform is for the rest? Paper mail, or attending one of the meetings. (Two others list FB pages but they're not publicly accessible.) #BCpoli

This morning, both the BC Conservatives and the BC NDP ruled out a vehicle levy to fund public transit in Metro Vancouver. This despite the vehicle levy being commonly used in other cities, including Montreal, Seattle, and the bustling metropolis of Gatineau, Quebec.

Elections have a way of clarifying who matters to political parties (car owners) and whose priorities can wait for another day (transit advocates). My dispatch from Day 1 on David Eby’s four day mid-election road trip. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Essentially a billion bird night. #birds #fall #migration

Daily birds 76 - Northern saw-whet owl

A new federal rule weakens the Endangered Species Act by redefining "harm" to wildlife. This change makes it much harder to protect the habitats that endangered species need to survive. Tell Congress to undo this change and protect endangered species here: mbayaq.co/4xSPQUZ

Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

project launch! postcardgifts.com create & send postcards for cheap, delight your loved ones with physical mail 💌

how is everyone doing can someone bring me snacks maybe a fun municipal pin no reason

I think New Zealand has the most beautiful money — both aesthetically & because each note honors a native bird: Hoiho/Yellow-eyed Penguin ($5) Whio/Blue Duck ($10) Kārearea/NZ Falcon ($20) Kōkako ($50) & Mohua/Yellowhead ($100). Are there any other beautiful currencies you think can compete with NZ?

Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!

Every sea otter deserves a second chance! In 2025, we opened our Sea Otter Conservation Center. Thanks to donor support, this state-of-the-art facility features two new holding tanks and two exam rooms, allowing us to provide critical care to more southern sea otters in need.

TODAY IS A VERY SPECIAL DAY ITS INTERNATIONAL RED PANDA DAY! Have a Daily red panda getting booped :3

(Extra) Miniature birds 64 - Anna's Hummingbirds

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

BC has a new time zone abbreviation: PCT. PCT stands for Pacific Time, BC’s single year-round time zone. It replaces PST and PDT, providing a consistent way to refer to BC’s time zone in schedules, systems and communications. No falling back this November.

Miniature birds 62 - American Oystercatcher

For the first time in several municipal election cycles, the percentage of women on ballots across British Columbia will be lower than four years earlier. While more women are running compared to 2022, the percentage has decreased, with women now only representing 25% of mayoral candidates.

New polling presented at an event hosted by ResourceWorks showing British Columbians support for various hypothetical natural resource projects. It shows most are in conditionally in favour of Hydro/gas/oil. But they’re against AI data centres.

Miniature birds 58 - Greater Roadrunner

We're continuing to build this database for journalists, researchers, municipal staff and the curious public. Check it out!

Miniature birds 56 - Secretary bird

Going car-free is great, but don't forget about families who could use a cargo bike (or minicar) as their second or third vehicle. The potential market is much, much bigger!

Miniature bird 55 - Great Spotted Woodpecker

It’s official: Cathedral Grove is British Columbia’s best roadside attraction www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Miniature bird 50 - Hoopoe

New Heritage Minute just dropped, starring Rick Mercer as the mayor of Gander, Newfoundland:

Miniature birds 47 - Red tailed hawk

Miniature bird 48 - Spotted Sandpiper