Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️

oh wow! This makes a ton of sense, although I've only ever seen adults of this species, and thus the yellow-orange on the bill of this bird was confusing me. Love these guys so much.

Congratulations on the successes thus far! Who is the fine looking bird on the lower left?

Seconding this, and the mention downthread of Instructional Design or other kinds of structured information delivery. Stella, you'd be AMAZING at that kind of stuff. Being able to engage an audience (and being able to pivot between audiences) is a skill you bring that is relatively rare!

this is excellent work. cannot wait to run into some of these guys during the season

Dickensian, or just some 1893 Wisden listings chronoported to our more diminished times (and sports).

"Hayden Birdsong" you have got to be kidding me

YouTube video by Radiant Plumbing • Air Conditioning • Electrical Toilet Dune

we have a leak in our bathroom ceiling and called a plumber and honestly? sometimes advertising works

America 2.0, where we all govern via blogrolls, ironic detachment, and LJ/Myspace flamewars.

I cannae believe these motherfuckers are gonna make me defend Don Lemon.

cannot wait to soak this one in piss, too

hahahaha and they're probably all Glaucous-winged x [your favorite gull here] just to fuck with you

truly one of the most satisfying acts of birding

Her whole thing is just a single dusty nugget of dog turd slowly crumbling on the sidewalk in some godforsaken corner of Maspeth.

The "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" meme. The Facebook post is from 27th January 2020

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

You heard Jer and the birds. Don't come back until you've done us all proud.

oh my god this is perfect

Be gay. Do crime.

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

ok now they're just fucking with me

I love how this is basically just a Eurasian Blue Tit with a carotenoid deficiency.

I am so thrilled that you were able to make yourself a treat today. That meal looks so good!

men stay winning at being absolute fucking dipshits

I have so many questions

this is my surprised Pikachu face

I want to hate this post but I fear that you're correct. we're on it, or it's currently invisible to us because it's Doppler-shifted to a wavelength we can't see due to it coming at us so fast.

honestly perfect

sending a ton of ❤️❤️❤️. It's exceptionally rough right now.

I have one of them on the wall of my apartment right now! (different color scheme though that shows elevation)

Everything is terrible but these COOT FEET are perfect.

congratulations on the second coot! that is an extremely satisfying coot foot photo -- thank you!