Plover Pastor

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

A parish priest would definitely be the right kind of person to talk to, when she gets back from holiday. In general, clergy love it when parishioners reach out and let us know what they are struggling with.

Wow, this is really heavy stuff, is there a priest in your own tradition that you can talk to? Because I can tell you what I think, but my tradition is really different from yours. We would have a range of options for you to fully participate in the sacrament without any wheat.

(Someone at the Medina County Park District is having FUN with their 60th anniversary.)

You really don't expect to run across a TARDIS while you are hiking somewhere in the middle of Ohio.

There is an opening in the trees, a small clearing, on the other side of which there is for some reason a TARDIS, which is not something you expect in the middle of Ohio, generally.

So, this morning after church I went to a nearby park for a bird hike, as has become my custom, because once I go home I'm probably not coming back out again for a while.

And I'm just randomly picking trails and therefore I really can't tell you where exactly this happened. #birding

I'm not trying to be snarky, this is a very sincere question.

Why do you think that Jesus wants you to poison yourself?

What Do I Do If I Don’t Like a Book at the Library? A handy step-by-step guide.

We wrote this handy step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to ban a book.

IYKYK

I've always thought that the government of Gahanna ought to get in on the joke. Hell is real, and it's a suburb of Columbus! Come and visit us today!

A White-throated Sparrow in left profile in the frame, perched on an evergreen bough with seed cones in the background. Taken at Wawanosh Wetlands area this morning.

Good Thursday morning all... can almost smell the weekend. #ElbowsUp A White-throated Sparrow from this morning's outing. #Sarnia #birds #OntarioBirds #Birdphotography #darktable #Canon #Sigma

Something is wrong with Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River Warming water may have an outsized impact on the legendary lake, which has been protected for decades.

That’s because the lake is deceptively shallow... That keeps the lake warm, allowing aquatic plants & algae to flourish. It also makes Itasca more susceptible to increasing air temperatures [due to climate change]”

Smoke from forest fires provides the nutrients

www.startribune.com/lake-itasca-...

Four Canada geese, walking away from the photographer, with a look back over the shoulder. Dry grass in the foreground and colorful orange brush in the background.

#BirdOfTheDay #Goose #Geese
Canada 🇨🇦 Geese against an Autumn field. Ridgefield NWR

a black bird is standing on a ledge on a balcony . Alt: A crow, a large black bird, walks jauntily towards you along a wood rail

Guidance: Don't.

You know what you did! 😠

Okay. Here’s the deal.

IQ doesn’t actually mean shit. It’s like the SAT. A useless metric of how well people take tests.

In a world increasingly dominated by eugenicist discourse, maybe we, ESPECIALLY we marginalized people, can stop acting like “intelligence” means a damn thing.

Just be kind.

Well I, for one, have a lot of respect for people who are trying to figure out if Mars is about to collide with Earth, using only 14th century tools.

...oh, wait, no, the opposite. That's silly.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

dark evil night heron aura farming. just looking menacing.

this heron had a good stance and i just couldn’t say no to a few pics.
#birds

I will admit that once you’re out of work, people around you stop acting like you have an identity, that’s true. But it ain’t because work imparts that. It’s that we install that because work eats our lives and we need a way to justify it.

Rougequeue noir posé sur une margelle.

Rougequeue noir femelle adulte ou juvénile, son attitude me fait pencher pour le juvénile.
Phoenicurus ochruros - Black Redstart
Photo prise le 30 septembre 2025 proche de Lyon, France
#oiseaux #birdphotography #birdphoto #birds

I can confirm that the notice does, in fact, blame the state law, at least.

To be fair, historically, most Christian traditions acknowledge that other Christian traditions exist, but don't think LDS quite counts as one.

Christian nationalists think their specific weird little fundamentalist tradition is the ONLY one that counts.

The frame is full of sleek brown/black birds with hooked yellow beaks, mostly in profile facing left.

Cormorant crowd scene. Gathering for migration #birds

A photo of a pied blue spread feral pigeon stood outside on a wibdow sill, head tilted

Today's Coopuccino

#pigeonSky 🪶

Winter Finch Forecast 2025-2026 - FINCH RESEARCH NETWORK By Tyler Hoar Featured Post Photo: ©David Turgeon GENERAL FORECAST It looks to be a flight year for many species in Eastern Canada. With mostly very poor crops in the boreal forest from central Quebec...

Ahhhh it's the winter finch forecast! So exciting. Looking forward to the upcoming Hot (Cold?) Redpoll Winter! 🪶

#birds #birding #WinterBirding #finches #nature

finchnetwork.org/winter-finch...

I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.

Ruby throated hummingbird sitting on a small branch looking up to the left

Good morning! 🪶

Photo of a fall plumaged Magnolia Warbler hanging on the stem of a large wild grape leaf. It is looking at the camera and its beak is open. Combined with with the white eyerings around its eyes, the bird looks like it is doing the Surprised Pikachu face meme.

Surprised Pikachu face, birb edition.
#birds #fall #migration