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A pair of collared doves are having breakfast on the Bird balcony playground. One hops up the wooden platform to thoroughly examine the area, when they get both distracted by something and after trying to figure it out, they decide to leave. #pigeonSky

A collared dove and a sparrow on the balcony feeding station. A short and cropped video from today. 🪶 #sparrows #pigeonSky

My event in Portland today went well...

A pair of Rooks let me sneak close, place an offering on the grassy hill and blabber about their cuteness, and if they wish to enjoy some peanuts and then sneak away and leave. And they didn't bolt away. Haha. They are cute. And then the dark menace hopped a few feet, which was even funnier to see.

Corner angle of a former bug house with a new hole drilled under the slanted roof on the left side and reinforced with an additional piece of wood. It's painted with a very last drop of diluted brown acrylic paint and covered with a sheer varnish finish. The front side on the right has horizontal entrances drilled through, so I blocked it off with a square of a thin plywood and two screws. This is a much lighter colour as I used only the varnish on this one. There is also a perch on the front from previous use, for bugs and bees to land on. The house is photographed on the table on a map pad.

The interior shows a ledge right below the entryway, a perch in the middle and another piece of a round pole that I added there earlier for holding the stuffing in.

I took a bug house and turned it into a bird resting point. The bug house never worked as intended (with the filling of course), so instead of giving it to ReUse like the others, I changed the whole configuration and will test it out.

My device is hiccuping a lot lately, making it a hard and long fight to form a post with alts and post it. I need the basic navigation to be adjustable and out of tiny narrow border zones that play dead quite often. I have a tablet, can't imagine hunting these things on a smaller device.

A photo of an outdoor mud cake in the shape of a swirl, that goes up and towards the left, I formed from a water catching ditch that meanders around possible flower beds. The higher places are dotted with rocks and pebbles. And I had a lot of fun creating it. The sun was shining, birds were chirping, I can't believe I spent a whole day there.

Detail of the inner smallest part of the swirl with a trident-like stick at the end. A tool that I used. I wonder if people weren't allowed to go outside and play in the mud in childhood or never drew anything when kiddos, considering all the nonsense about how a plagiarism machine is super awesome and making art is now accessible thanks to that. Hear the truth about that, making art was always accessible and out there. They are just too lazy to pick up a pencil. They rather waste the water and burn down the forest to get something, The Thing, glued from stolen work. I feel it is like the Carpenter's Thing, trying to replicate and mimic and the result is something you don't want to look at. Artists are great targets for losers at any given time. And I'm tired of it.

Upside down look.

Time well spent. The art and a tool.

Sparrow's bunker in the bricks. He demonstrates how to use it. You just dolphin-dive into any hole in the bricks and keep a low profile, pretending to be rotten, highly inedible potato.

YouTube video by Der Eichhörnchen Mann The Squirrel Man Meise Gute Nacht

youtu.be/LZQccrm_Rs0?... awww, this chickadee is so cute, how she's fluffing up and looking for the best position to fall asleep. 🪶🧡🐦

My #scicomm legacy: makin’ fake snot on a #Seattle morning show to promote a summer exhibit on “gross” #science.

Almost made the host barf during taping, when I put the preserved sheep brain in her hand.

That woulda been my proudest achievement.

#ScienceIsFun

A photo taken from the floor perspective shows a round blue tit facing the camera, perched on a diagonal rod of an L bracket with hook, where the suet balls silo is. To the left is the balcony railing, painted white and across are screwed thin planks, creating a mesh for additional furniture. A portion of it can be seen to the right, where I secured two pieces of a pine tree there, everything together creates a path above the floor. I also moved the floor furniture to make a better walkway for doves.

Here is a great tit in the bottom left corner, giving an eye to my shenanigans. More furniture is shown on the right, including two sets of orange blair bricks with holes. I pushed them together, always two and two, so it creates a longer tunnel for hiding, which the little sparrow is already using, it is behind a four legged wooden platform with suet balls silo, between these bricks and other two bricks stands a wooden wine rack that connects the branches above on the railing and and acts like a hop spot between the bricks.

Those two precious doves noticed immediately. One of them checked on the back road and now stands with a head obscured by the suet balls silo, the other is perched on the natural looking dish, tilting her head and scanning the area. What I changed is the water bowl and fine sand bowl. As a water bowl I use that plastic dish shaped feeder, it is a shallow saucer with a hole in the middle, with a smaller dish beneath that also has a pole in the middle. The smaller dish is secured to the base and the big saucer can be easily removed from the pole for cleaning. It is secured on top with a little flat bird figurine, which is now hidden behind the tiny potted spruce tree. And a small shallow blue enamel pot with painted fruits printed on the outside, is for the sand. I removed the old plastic handle, that smelled very toxic, and made one from the piece of broomstick wood. Two screws hold it from below.

Inner side of the bird box door. The surface is scratched for gripping. I'm carving off a V shaped piece of wood from the bottom part of the entryway, to make the tunnel shorter if it's too deep for the bird to explore more. I saw a small blue tit truly checking it, measuring and testing the outside.

I carved off a portion of wood on the inner side of the birb houses to make the entry tunnels seem shorter. And I am trying to take birdy pictures from the floor perspective, but the tablet is constantly moving, and I am becoming hangry. 🪶

I think that this sparrow is at least one third dove due to the loafing, delicate eating, mimicking dove's behaviour. And I also noticed a flat hunting blue tit in the back, she is carefully exploring and examining the craftswoman's job. Maybe a two plank tunnel is too long? 🪶

Yesterday's activity on the Birb balcony. I couldn't change water earlier due to an appointment and the fact I almost missed the bus. Happens a lot, lol. This also means that there isn't much food left, by the birds' standards of course. 🪶🐦‍⬛🧡

A photo of a spread blue feral pigeon with feathered legs and toes, outside on a railing, directly facing the viewer. She is fluffy, round, and due to the angle looks very angry

Got this amazing shot of Americano today

#pigeonSky 🪶

Awww, angry birb 😅, this angle is cool. Pomelo chose murder for today.

SkyCam caught a sporadic meteor early this morning 👍

A church with very tall and narrow wooden doors followed by steps on the front. The facade is of light beige colour with bases and crownings in gray. It is a part of the military town of Terezín Fortress with a snow covered park in front of it. Short bare trees follow the rectangular border of the area where there are no trees within the park itself, at least in what can be seen in this narrow, quick, via dirty bus window.

Crossing the river Labe (or Elbe) and Ohře meeting point over the tall bridge. The smaller Ohře is on the right, where it flows into the river Labe. We are looking up against the current. Both rivers turn from the right to the middle part of the photo.

A green washbasin with a black with light blue baking tray on its side and a tray shaped block of ice with all rocks in it. Deeply frozen drink for poor birds.

Overcast, sometimes snow and temperatures back below zero degrees Celsius. This time the appointment, I decided, will be just the main story line without side quests. So I took the bus in both directions, beelined through the shortest route to the doctor's office and avoided everything else.

About time...

The 'D' at the end of ASD and ADHD should be 'Divergence', not 'Disorder'. Pathologising natural differences, for everything from not being a white male to being gay to being neurodiverse, has achieved nothing except to weaken society and damage individuals.

Day 20 of our little runner duck ducklings enjoying the freedom of the barn

A white chinese gander leads a brood of mix-breed ducklings through a lush green yard.

Things are hard right now, but if they start to get too tough, just remember that somewhere in Kansas, a full-grown gander saw a motherless brood of ducklings and immediately adopted them as his children.

Borbs. A Blue tit gets spooked and two sparrows are bromancing around the dishes.

Incredibly powerful front page from the Sunday Post

‘These are the faces of the close to 200 women killed by men in Scotland over the last 16 years. Many were murdered in the one place they should feel completely safe - their own home. Today, we ask for your help in ending misogynistic violence’

Cloudy evening sky from my walk along the river. There is always a place, where the air movements take a swirly direction, creating a few thin funnels.

🖤❤️

A large chunky black tarantula with reddish trim around the carapace and legs. She is sitting in a relaxed position and is covered with bits of dirt.

Fresh up from digging underground. She's a mess. tliltocatl vagans mature female, around 6 inches DLS. #tarantula

Can't help it, but I see puppy eyes, that she has been busy little (big, fuzzy darling) bee is not her fault and are there any treats out there? It's amazing to see such beautiful animals like this.

and now they have to bring some knowledge to those critters out there as they're about to lose their power core, life, hence the glyphs with astronauts, here we are at the Square one that's how I bake. I'm still mixing the dry goods 😂.

I am mixing ingredients for baking and my brain took me into an Era where Humans are Back in the caves (people first deteriorated by AI, then almost all went blackout due to some Solar event perhaps). Quite a lot of luckier people lived for eons in a very well hidden military area. /continue

Yeah, there's always one. He needs to chill out, with a little help of something heavy knocking gently in the right coordinates. I feel like the furball in the front, just let me get my 56696 years of beauty sleep, pleeeease 📢.

😍 Almost as beautiful as the sunshine and a short nap in it's lovely hands, is a nice peaceful spot, where one can enjoy the moment and a heartwarming.. *chirp chirp* stampede, one of the birbs *zooms after the culprit* who dared to break the fragile truce of Calm by appearing with a peanut.