Birder K

MAR10 = date today

MARIO = dunna dunna dunna

Ides of March coming up, how are we all celebrating?

i’m telling my grandkids this was warhammer 40,000

Male Bullfinch eating berries at Inverkeithing.

Male Bullfinch

Drake Eider eating shore crab a few days ago.

Grey Wagtail feeding on the beach

George & I had an enjoyable walk from Port Laing to Inverkeithing harbour yesterday morning. No divers seen but still plenty to enjoy, hearing a singing Chiffchaff & seeing bumble bees certainly helped, as did the Bullfinch, Eiders & Grey Wagtail.
#birds
#fifebirding

Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.

NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.

Iran: "Maybe it will happen today."

Abandoned Pennsylvania mines and waste-heat recycling could make the state’s massive new data centers far more sustainable In Pennsylvania, new data centers could require enough electricity to power 11 million homes.

Data centers generate massive amounts of heat that must be removed, generally using electric fans. In Pennsylvania, where summers are hot and humid, cooling costs spike and often get passed to residents through electricity rate increases.

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!

www.ign.com/articles/the...

Detailed watercolor painting of an American Coot standing on a log floating on still water. The bird's lobed feet are visible.

Newest piece, I don't see a lot of American Coot artwork! I knew I'd want to paint their crazy-looking feet for my Life List Series, as they're not often seen but are a great indicator that they're rails and not ducks!

#BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #AnimalArt #ArtSky

YouTube video by Get Birding Get Birding with Sean Bean Episode 1 | The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch! | Birdwatching Podcast

FYI: Sean Bean has a web series on birding. Repeat Birding with Boromir! youtu.be/m9aroePaO90

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

Out of work and with 2 teens, this mom may lose food stamps under Trump's changes Policy experts say new SNAP changes don't address the challenges faced by single parents. They also argue that losing food assistance will only create more barriers for struggling families.

Policy experts say new SNAP changes don't address the challenges faced by single parents. They also argue that losing food assistance will only create more barriers for struggling families. n.pr/40Zw63G

Omg, its little clown gloves!!!

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.

Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.

#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

A pretty still photo of the Side Quested Book 2

ONE WEEK TO BOOK LAUNCH, I REPEAT, ONE WEEK TO BOOK LAUNCH

sidequested.com/book/

PREORDER NOOOOOOWWWW, SOME READERS ALREADY GOT THEIRS BECAUSE LIBRARIES ARE WEIRD

photo of a male rufous hummingbird sitting in a bare fig tree. he is in profile facing left turned slightly back toward the camera. his gorget is refracting green, gold, orange and red.

Annnnnnnnnnnd the first Mr. Rufous of 2026!

Let the games begin!

#birds #becurious 🪶

Watching a video discussing the rise of “tradwives,” and the host—a queer woman—just used the term “gender ideology” to mean “forcing people into traditional gender roles,” and I found that super refreshing.

It SHOULD mean that. Rather than “trans people wanting to exist.”

Out there showing all that ankle while hiding those knees.

A sanderling with something in their mouth, running on the surf with both feet in the air

Can't believe those little legs work like that. 🪶

here’s my original version! i highly recommend some version that works for you if you’re going through it, it was pretty instrumental in getting me through the worst weeks of burnout when i couldn’t read my body or emotions correctly.

I have many up here now, with more to come!

It’s such a nigh impossible outcome, but if he and Miller could have a falling out, I’ll take it.

Oh, he’s in throwing everyone else under the bus mode now

The same name came up over and over and over again during my reseach into deep-sea espionage and all I can say is the world needs more haters that hate like Jack Anderson hated Richard Nixon.

Pure, white-hot spite.

I went out this evening to listen for woodcock & frogs; the videos I took recorded no sound - I think because the Car Play thingy was activated 😭
Lots more woodcock than from a week ago, and several small but loud Spring Peeper groups. Also saw a bat flying around, which was a little unexpected!

An image of three people in vibrant dinosaur costumes standing in front of a large object called a tripod. There is deep white snow all around. Text across the top reads: Fairbanks dinosaurs came to Tripod Days in Nenana on Saturday, March 7 2026 to cheer on digging out the tripod and moving it down the Tanana River. Thanks for the photo, Moxy Rising

Interior Alaskans have an annual festival to set a large tripod on the thick river ice and attach it to a clock via a wire.

When the ice melts, tripod dunks in water, clock stops

People bet on that date and time down to the minute.
Half of the money goes to charity
half to the correct guess(es)

Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Etsy seems to have re-added the videos to listings, so I guess it was just a glitch!

Every labradorite listing should have one, so you can see the stone in motion:
oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4454...

#Handmade #DisabledArtist