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1875 cartoon by Henry Worrall showing Kansas farmers battling giant grasshoppers

New bucket list goal as we approach the end times is to get a plague of locusts named after me en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%...

You must pour this back into the King of Beers to awaken his avatar and beat back the N.A. tides

rumors afoot of a "diskette" you can fit in your pocket, that can hold an entire book's text

target acquired

Built a nature bot last night and started with birds, it posts high quality photos from Macaulay with attribution. Would love feedback on what's good & bad about it!

the gang's back

@utahoverpassaction.bsky.social inspo for ya

Orbs neglected, orbs respected

yum

another couple weeks before I can get out birding again, so it's garden pollinator appreciation season

colorado striped sweat bee (or another Agapostemon sp.) kindly pollinating my russian sage
#bugsky

showy milkweed, which started volunteering itself below my birdfeeders a few years ago, has finally been blooming this year, which is lovely

a teeny varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) and a much larger hoverfly (Helophilus sp.) in a sea of carrot flowers

common checkered-skipper (Pyrgus communis)
resting on a young carrot flower in Denver, Colorado
#bugsky

Gives the vibe of an aristocrat drinking port wine at a dressage competition and deciding they have a good understanding of “all the lower hooven beasts of the earth”

digital artwork, indistinct inhuman creature, suspended, perhaps in liquid, perhaps behind glass, predominantly blue

brine of forgetting

Large woodpecker with a red crown and black back. Long beak.

White-bellied Woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis), male. A distant image of a magnificent & large woodpecker.
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Some visual feedback when quick-identifying a bird with an "instinct". Might be getting too fancy with that lightning, idk...

#GodotEngine #gamedev #birdingRPG

By its pale gray back and pale primary tips with pink legs, looks like glaucous-winged gull to me! There are some messy hybrids out there though

Pretty Good House The Pretty Good House approach to home building and renovating details a pathway to building better than code minimum which describes the worst house you can legally build. The info is vetted by leadi...

I’ve had www.prettygoodhouse.org recommended to me

(From Wikipedia page for Merian C. Cooper) # Pan American Airways From 1926 to 1927, Cooper discussed with John Hambleton the plans for Pan American Airways, which was formed in 1927.[3]: 180  Cooper was a member of the board of directors of Pan American Airways.[14] During his tenure at Pan Am, the company established the first regularly scheduled transatlantic service.[10] While he was on the board, Cooper did not devote his full attention to the organization; he took time in 1929 and 1930 to work on the script for King Kong. By 1931, he was back in Hollywood.[3]: 182, 183  He resigned from the board of directors in 1935, following health complications.[3]: 258  # King Kong

what a pivot

grasshopper climbing on the glass of our picture window, framed to suggest it is a kaiju stomping around down the block

late July is when the bigger insects start terrorizing the neighborhood

The Society for Marine Mammalogy’s Official List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies has been updated.

Visit the SMM website for the full list: marinemammalscience.org/science-and-...

Image: Uko Gorter 2025

#SMM #Marinemammal

as the player gains experience with a given bird species, they'll unlock "instincts" that speed up future identification
#GodotEngine #gamedev #birdingRPG

fox squirrel says sup