Jeff Hoppes

Yes, from the 1569 Union of Lublin until the second partition of Poland in 1793.

22.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every day is a good bird day.

19.06.2025 01:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

South of Lawrence that trail rapidly trends in the direction of "you are likely to encounter a Northern Waterthrush."

(The bridge at Bryn Mawr has been a tremendous improvement for how I tend to use this system...)

16.06.2025 04:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sweeping years-long epic (the years are "49th Division's arctic warfare training in Iceland, 1940-1942").

11.06.2025 16:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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That should, in general, be ok! (Full text of our practices for resolving this sort of thing can be read here: www.naqt.com/buzzword/jud...)

18.12.2024 04:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for letting us know, Josh- our protest committee will take a look at this case.

18.12.2024 03:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Turkey Hill peanut butter ripple ice cream

The obviously superior option is right there (for certain central Pennsylvania values of "there")

24.06.2024 00:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chicago transit signs, like lists of royalist grandees, often contain the names "Montrose" and "Clarendon"

Today's transit birding is brought to you by: the royalist cause

14.05.2024 21:07 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Tim Wakefield #49

04.04.2024 02:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How about "lacustrine"?

06.02.2024 02:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WE WANT EIGHT AND WE WON'T WAIT (cat treats)

31.01.2024 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"The Anna's Hummingbird was a regicide." Discuss.

31.01.2024 18:43 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The plan for the Crater had real potential, but the execution was very badly botched. (Compare, at a much larger scale, the attack on Messines Ridge in summer 1917.)

18.12.2023 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD in 1943, Italy. These pigeons saw a lot of action. They took part in exchange of information when one of the brigades was cut off from the main body of the British 8 Army two weeks earlier and were also used during commando raids around Messina in Sicily. #WW2 #HISTORY

09.12.2023 07:48 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

(Seriously, I think it would fascinating to write a set of Chicago Open-difficulty lightning rounds for some low-stress summer side event.)

06.12.2023 01:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooh, sorry, what I have written here is five instances of "ex-Confederate Northern Mockingbird"

06.12.2023 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

All these years later and I'm still a bit disappointed my high school career ended without a chance at the "State Birds" lightning round.

06.12.2023 00:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

02.12.2023 17:54 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Bald eagle glares out from the frontispiece of Roger Tory Peterson's "Birds Over America" (1948)

signed: "With my best regards, Roger Tory Peterson"

receipt for four dollars

Exciting find at Goodwill this week! #birds

12.10.2023 20:14 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0