Hockey is back, meaning it's time for me to spend the next month being absolutely baffled by players moving teams.

One of my favorite sub-genres of art is Cats Stealing Food in Still Life Paintings. It’s so wonderfully disrespectful. Like Still Life with Cat by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, 1705. www.thegreatcat.org/the-cat-in-a...

Birds (Chicken, Duck, Toucan and Lovebird)

As Maggie would not stop scratching at a cut by her ear and making it worse, she has spent the last week or so in the Orange Neck Pillow of Citrus-y Shame. It's both effective and adorable.

I have a lot to do but what if, instead, I captioned my shorebird photos?

the moral of this comic is storytelling is easy: you just get your friends to punch your story up, usually by having a character gain access to spider-man's web shooters and also spider-man's rogue's gallery www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Today in Definitely Very Serious Video Game Theories, I propose that the Assassins in Assassin's Creed are actually octopuses. They can blend in with the background to the point they disappear: camouflage! They can hold so many things: extra arms! They can climb everything: suction pads! 🐙🔪

Tokay gecko

remember: birdwatching goes both ways

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Too relatable.

Know Your Northern Cardinals. My newsletter: tinyletter.com/rosemarymosco

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Okay! So threading can be rough here! Here's all my "guide" together if you need it (not exhaustive, just the stuff I tell folks to get them started :) ) (with alt text ♥ )

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May fortune follow the stranger who responded to me going, "oh, bug spray, what a smart thing to bring" at an outdoor play by going, "here, hold out your arms, I've got you!" and saving me from the swarms of mosquitoes who had an audience buffet.

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After extensive research, I bring you: Laser Crab: 4K Remaster

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We lost power in my neighbourhood and the building tenant group chat is 50% "I have extra candles/flashlights if anyone needs them!" and 50% "awww man I'm going to have to replay that entire section of the game/my PS is going to yell at me for not properly shutting down".

I had to renew my health card today and I am very curious about how the photo will turn out because I realized about two seconds before the camera went off that the song playing in the government office was the 90s hit "Sex and Candy" and it was suddenly rather surreal.

Pick your battles. No, fewer that that. Put some battles back.

Why celebrate lizards? Well for one they're full of cool adaptations, they're important as predators and prey, and they can indicate changes to the ecosystem. You're looking for a Striped plateau lizard. Can you #FindThatLizard? LMK with #FoundThatLizard 🦎💜

I’m pretty strongly on team “name species descriptively, not after people, because otherwise it’s hard to avoid naming them after terrible people,” but this quote (about a new snake named after Harrison Ford) is a delight. 🧪

Watching the Blue Jays ceremony for Jose Bautista and it's really nice to see all these guys from those years together again. That era was so fun, so many good players and so much personality. I'm glad they brought him back to retire as a Blue Jay.

Squeaking in just before the end of International Cat Day with some photos of Maggie, a cat who every day finds new shapes to be.

Great egret, great model! 🪶

When you're getting ready to play hockey in the 70s.

Every year I think, oh, it would be fun to try Avian August! and every year August rolls around and I remember that it's right in the middle of work being absurdly busy. Maybe I'll do avian October. Auk-tober?

Since everyone seems to enjoy crow content, here's a fledgling just a few hours out of the nest. 🪶

Molt... prism... power! 🪶

I exist here now! You may know me from such previous places as Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, personal blogs, MySpace, and mailing lists. Here's a photo of an oriole I took a while ago: