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Megan O’Connor 🍁
@meganoconnorart.ca
I draw wildlife with coloured pencils using my own photos and observations as a reference (unless otherwise stated). Toronto, Canada.

https://meganoconnorart.ca
I finished “Monty” today — the male of the pair of Cooper’s hawks I watched this year. He is smaller than his mate (“Capulet”) and in adult plumage. He was a great dad: he built the nest and fed everyone!

Coloured pencil on cotton paper.

#BirdArt #Birds #SciArt
September 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Take that, Hilroy!

@birdscanada.bsky.social
September 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I don’t ordinarily name wild birds, but I spent so many weeks observing this one, and it helped with note taking to distinguish her from her mate, so …

“Capulet”, 12x16 inches, coloured pencil on cotton paper, based on my own photo.

#SciArt #Birds
September 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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New from me at TVO: Okay, fine, I had thoughts about the Lake America stupidity and why it shouldn't just be laughed off. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
www.tvo.org
September 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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This is gold 🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣

💪🏻🍁 clapping back at the US administration for their childish comments
September 2, 2026 at 7:53 PM
“Green Energy”. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. A male ruby-throated hummingbird based on photos I took last spring. #SciArt #Birds
August 25, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I only worry that my list wasn’t long enough. Fellow Canadians, let them know what we’re doing! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you
We’d like to hear from Canadians who are avoiding American products and what they’re buying instead
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Art is long, US administrations are short. Three cheers to our PM and all Canadians who said “enough” last night! The latest illegal US tariffs on Canada will effectively stop sales to the U.S. — but don’t let that stop us making art and celebrating what’s good in life ❤️
#SciArt #CanadianArt
August 22, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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August 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
“Reliability” is the key word. I’m not sure why we even bother trying to negotiate with an administration that breaks deals and ignores law. Until Americans choose to elect a law-abiding administration, we have to detach ourselves — however sad and painful the reality.
August 22, 2026 at 12:54 PM
It looks as if “drawings” are included in the new 50 % tariffs that the U.S. is slapping on Canada (illegally, again). Now it’s personal 😏
August 22, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I drew the last stick today! Coloured pencil on cotton paper, 12 x 21 inches, based on photos I took in July, on the last day I saw these young Cooper’s hawks all in the nest together. I watched this nest from April until August.

#birds #SciArt
August 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I feel as if I’ve reversed the natural order of things: first I make the chicks, then I make the nest (nest still in progress). Art does not always imitate life 😏

#Birds #SciArt
August 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Over the last 10 yrs, sharpshooters hired by the B.C. govt have killed hundreds of wolves from helicopters to "save" struggling caribou herds. The real cause of caribou decline isn't wolves, though - it's habitat destruction.

This isn't endangered species conservation, BC. It's willful ignorance.
BC Just Spent $74,900 to Kill a Single Wolf in the Kootenays | The Tyee
The program exists to save at-risk caribou, but critics want Ottawa to move to preserve herds’ old-growth habitat.
thetyee.ca
August 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Bad: the hawk is so close to your camera lens that you have to lower it down and just watch.

Good: the hawk is so close to your camera lens that you have to lower it down and just watch.

#WildlifePhotography #Birds
July 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Making progress on four young Cooper’s hawks, based on photos I took on the last day I saw them all in the nest (July 11). I haven’t begun the fourth yet; am hoping to give a sense of them spilling out :) I still visit them, but they are getting harder to track! #SciArt #Birds
July 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Mom and fledgling Great Horned Owls at sunrise 🦉
#birds #owls
July 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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“I feel sorry for Americans. If you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.”
— David Eby, Premier of British Columbia
July 22, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I’ve begun my largest ever drawing — 12” x 21” — featuring a family of Cooper’s hawks on the day before they began to leave their nest at roughly 4-5 weeks old. #Birds #SciArt
July 17, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Ordinarily, late morning is the best time for me to draw because of the natural light, but today it’s too dark because of wildfire smoke. I can only imagine how awful this must be for people in northern Ontario 😢 We know fires are more common now, and larger. Why are we not more proactive?
July 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Black crowned night herons have the coolest dance moves! #Birds #TorontoWildlife
July 8, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Mr. Bryan Adams.
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Bryan Adams - '51st State' (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bryan Adams
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July 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Am completely exhausted and bitten too many times by mosquitoes, but I got to watch a family of young raccoons play bitey face with each other — so, worth it 😄
July 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 25, 2026 at 10:34 PM