A blue-gray gnatcatcher is an objectively hilarious bird. 🪶

the emotion of staring at a negative COVID test and being sure it’s lying

Is anybody watching Widow's Bay? It just made me jump a foot. I'm enjoying it a lot.

Saw your man floating ass up in the bog. Undignified

I have photos from 6AM bird walk but am now getting HAMMERED in the district with new coworkers; am now as nervous as I have ever been about maybe missing a bird newsletter

I don’t know who need to hear this, but [plays Timothy Treadwell’s last recording unedited]

Okay well first of all I’d kill for any one of these computer-animated sheep.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but [plays the complete unabridged 12 hour audiobook of World War Z]

Dear god

Weeks ago I bought an insane breakfast food and I think today is the day to try them.

What search engine are people using these days?

wolfman respects the troops; this is good neighborhood wolfman policy

thirteen year old girls call each other “bruh” more than I would have guessed

My niece and her terrible girlfriends are having a water balloon fight in the yard. It’s dark, it raining, it’s 55 degrees.

was it sharks

calling in “bad haircut” when you’re working remote should still be allowed

I’ve been sitting with it for a few hours now, and I begin to suspect I’ve gotten a bad haircut. Will update when I’ve had a chance to blow it out myself, but the outlook is not good.

does “viceroy” literally mean “vice-king”

Does he know he is Dr. Oz?

Bird blog subscribers: here is additional context for the oriole porn (obviously someone asked for photos)

You ever download a photo taken at a distance and find out there are seven wood ducklings in it? Pretty good.

🪶 a cooperative blue jay I saw today

Buddy, way ahead of you. It is spring time.

I'm sorry that this happened to The Neighborwolf, but I am developing such a crush on the woman who maintains this guy. To greet a disappointing theft with this kind of sensibility.

Jeopardy! having a question that neutrally describes human skin shoes is disconcerting in a way I can’t explain.

Shout out the moms from The Neighborwolf.

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by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam. seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.

Mad scenes at the wetland sanctuary when a dude called the blue-gray gnatcatchers “big gnatties..”

I hit send too soon on the bird blog tonight, which at its core is a record of me falling apart in real life, really. I updated it on the site to include the dang bird list. skwbotd.ghost.io/april-14-202...

lol I love the Nugget, she has grown into a beautiful goblin teen

I have been very open about how I do not know very much about current music, who is Sofie Isella? Is she insanely famous and I just heard of her today? Do not reply if you're going to make fun of me.

Let me ask you this, though: would a fuzzy goose butt make you feel better? skwbotd.ghost.io/may-7-2026/

I had an unpleasant dental procedure today and now I am in a nighttime board meeting that has run over by half an hour so far. I bet they won't even get to my item. I have a post-Xanax headache and my jaw hurts and I had to miss league trivia for this. Pretty miserable day and I need it to be over.

I think I will start abusing drugs and alcohol again.

I am very glum this evening, but at least tomorrow I get to take a Xanax and then visit my life partner Dr Ijadi, DDS, DMD.

Hilarious thought by @sarakatew.bsky.social in her excellent newsletter today

A pervasive fantasy that I’ll cross one leg over my knee and my hip will pop and then never ache again.

A pervasive fantasy that I’ll rub the right spot in my neck and all my muscles will unlock and my sinuses will clear.

It is *very funny* to me that Chet Hanks is the best part of Running Point, a television show that I have watched all of, which I hate.

Okay, so this I like. Take heed, Student Driver: Please Be Patient.

I intended to sleep until 1 PM but through a fateful concatenation of circumstance I find myself at a middle school track meet. I am bereft of God.

this dumbass doesn’t even know he can fly on his own

airport bird

When I get home I’m going to lay on my floor and stretch every joint and muscle in my body and then I am going to sleep for 13 consecutive nonstop hours

I hand Robin Williams his coffee in 1979:

Four new signups, the Guest Birder Bump; everybody loves @maggiehendricks.bsky.social and @alanwhickers.bsky.social

The rave reviews keep pouring in