Such is the confidence of flying in a 14-strong bushtit SQUADRON that I was able to get some very nice photos of these usually elusive little puffballs!

#birdPhotography #Oregon #BackOnMyBushtit #birding

In July, the common cowparsnip may produce a heavy crop of bushtits!

#birdPhotography #Oregon #BackOnMyBushtit #birding

Me when I see a red-breasted sapsucker for the first time in a while: how could I forget how wee they are? So small! A handful!

Me after a downy woodpecker visits the same willow grove: Sapsuckers are so SUBSTANTIAL!

#WildForWoodpeckers
#Birding

It’s “take your offspring to work” day for red-breasted sapsuckers! 😍 :sapsucker: :sapsucker:

#Birding

Welcome to doing #genealogy in the U.S.A.! The answers to whatever question you are pursuing are probably to be found within the U.S. Federal Census of 1890. Unfortunately that census data was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1921. Have fun researching! 🙃🙃🙃

90% of U.S. adults have “I Just Made Up a Syndrome” Syndrome, and have never even heard of it!!!

The smallest dinosaur I saw today.

#BirdPhotography #birding #Oregon #hummingbird

Admiring rufous hummingbirds in the backyard like “you are by FAR the smallest dinosaur I have seen today!”

#birding

Apparently the Maritime Museum of San Diego is planning to permanently close the HMS Surprise to the public as restoration would be more expensive than they expected ($25 million.) Once again I am wishing the goddamn billionaires would spend their stupid money in cool, whimsical ways, since this would be less than a day’s passive income for the foremost money-hoarders. 🤬

(Sorry for FB link, but that seems to be how the museum is communicating: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18vn45Xv6L/)

#HMSSurprise #Aubreyad

Sometimes my library holds remind me of Demetri Martin’s bit about trying to get a single ice cube from the bottom of a cup.

“Hold! Brothers, hold! …Everybody strike NOW!”
*Felicity is buried under audiobooks*

Me watching show set in the American Southwest: "Okay, so I was pleased the first time I heard the mountain chickadee, but are you trying to tell me the chickadees are chill and happy in ALL of these scenes? NONE of these human crimes and disturbances are raising the Chickadee Threat Level to non-zero levels? Pshaw!"

#BirdNerd

The Bewick's was catching its elevenses! (CW for bird-on-small-insect violence in photos)

#BirdPhotography #Oregon #BackyardBirds

Bewick’s wren! in the backyard. 😄 #BirdCallOut

I get to go birding AND when I come back I get my little cat stomping around demanding that I pet her and dote on her and let her sleep in my lap? I don’t think this is the strict punishment for poor attendance that my kitty thinks it is! 😍

#CatsOfMastodon

(Photos of Alma being the boss and making lovey faces are from a few days ago, for illustration purposes. I am not currently allowed to move to get good angles!)

Let a lady with an off leash dog pass me on the trail earlier, and just now she passed me going back: she’s leashed the dog to her waist now but is loudly carrying on a FaceTime call as she walks. Very few people can manage to be BOTH my least favorite park-sharers in one day! Astonishing!

#kvetching
#PetPeeve

MPAA ratings are now so irrelevant that I was looking for a movie’s rating to make a joke and I haven’t found it yet, on Wikipedia or Letterboxd. 🤷🏻‍♀️

RE: https://mas.to/@Jgbird/116850910749019718

I would not say I ALWAYS boost woodpeckers, but when they’re as cute as this acorn woodpecker, who could resist?!

#WildForWoodpeckers

Recently I was sorting through some of my bird photo backlog, and realized I hadn't shared these photos of a dear little Northern House Wren couple I saw near their nest hole last summer!

One bird does a wingbeat display to attract the mate's attention. Then it offers the moth as a gift to the mate, who takes it but offers it back so they both hold it before it is finally accepted.

CN: dead moth

#CentralOR #BirdPhotography #WrensDay

On the one hand, I do sometimes miss going to the movies. 😷 On the other hand, now it’s up to the movie to transport me somewhere!

The older you get and the more you learn about Italian Renaissance art, the more you question the truisms you grew up with as common knowledge. Donatello is not “kinda random”, but is actually well worth naming a ninja turtle after.

(I still consider Raphael to be un-turtleworthy.)