i dont speak french. is this good

Super warbler-y in the backyard park today, which is great (I needed that). Many American Redstarts and Bay-breasted Warblers, plus at least one Black-and-white Warbler, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warber, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, and Ovenbird. #birds

And here's a bird butt for you #birdbutt lovers

Warbler photography: it's fun and I love it and it's not frustrating at all

At one point the backyard Black-throated Blue Warbler perched directly over my head (in the harshest backlighting possible on this gloomy day) and just beat a moth (?) to death. Look at the scales fly from that insect!

Y'all he let me hang out with him and even at one point flew down to catch a mosquito that was near my bare legs. I love Black-throated Blue Warblers 🖤🤍💙

i took tums ONE TIME now i’m autistic and trans

Not raptured, can’t imagine why that would be the case

Irruption.

Black-throated Blue Warblers were rare enough in central Illinois they triggered rare bird alerts. I got 1-3 a year there. I’ve still not adjusted to how much more common they are in Central Ohio. Woke up to my 15th of the year, right outside my bedroom window.

I hate the videos where people pretend to faint or collapse to see what their pet does. You're probably stressing the hell out of your pet. Stop it. Don't be a dick.

It bothers me that Babbel advertisements are always saying you’ll learn sentences you’ll actually use, implying Duolingo (and other services) are having you practice worthless sentences. I dunno, seems relevant to me?

This is also my experience today (we’ve needed rain so bad here)

If my kid ends up with autism it will NOT be from acetaminophen or the well studied anxiety meds I take to stay marginally sane. It WILL be because of how much I liked lining up my dinosaur toys and organizing them by herbivore/carnivore as a child :) 🦕🦕🦖🦖

Unsolicited rapture opinion: why would you worship a god that would reject a large portion of the population anyway

Oh no the construction equipment rapture is apparently ahead of schedule

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

I’ve been saying this since before I could even talk, as evidenced by this actual front page newspaper spread of me stealing cabbage and noodles from my mother at a fair in the 90s.

I second this and also wanted to share that I was driving to this museum once, crested a hill on a rural highway, and almost hit a bunch of loose cows. A true Kansas experience.

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

They should invent an applying for jobs system that is not soul-crushing. Has anyone tried this

I haven’t been attending church lately, in part because so many “progressive social justice” churches end up emphasizing passivity and prayer in times like these instead of decisive action. Shouldn’t’ve doubted this one, we’re doing Power and Glory with the secret verse as a hymn now I see.

Got hit by a bunch of spam bots (suddenly gained over 1500 followers overnight). I assumed it was a site-wide thing and I was surprised no one was talking about it. As I’m blocking them I’m realizing many only follow me and a handful of other accounts. Seems so rudely targeted.

Can’t believe I gotta give up the Andor app

I’ve worn the same necklace nonstop for years (I only wear jewelry if I never have to take it off), with a bison carved out of a buffalo nickel that I bought from a Native artist in South Dakota in 2014. Today I realized the bison was gone, who knows when or where it fell off 😭

Taking friends who’ve never been to a Renaissance Faire to pirate weekend at the Ohio Faire and being super normal about it.

Had to park in front of some students playing beer pong last night to unload a bunch of large bags of bird food (40-50 lbs). They were making jokes at my expense (perhaps thought I couldn’t hear?) so I carried the bags over my shoulder to look cool. And I’m so achy today, too old for that.

Seems a bit unfair that if I made a mistake and didn't pay the government on time I'd owe a fine. But if they make a mistake and don't pay me what I'm owed (tax return I was hoping to get in April), it's not like I'm getting interest payments on that.

This was not a great place when I was a kid growing up in Cleveland (google "Hastily made Cleveland tourism videos" for a sense, although content warning for offensive jokes) I've moved back to Ohio after ~10 years away, it's pretty amazing how much folks improved the area!

Last year I taught a workshop about birds to a group of incarcerated students in Indiana. The prison guards scoffed at me because they didn't think the students would be interested. Anyway, a student just sent me (via another instructor) an article about birds, he's kept researching them <3

Tip for finding cool #birds: pay attention when prey species get scared. The robins and squirrels were screaming so I followed them to this beautiful Red-shouldered Hawk. Here's a short thread of photos, because why not. 1/4

My goofy calico loves her big sister, but the older cat merely tolerates her (at best) So please enjoy this rare photographic evidence that the two can exist peacefully in close proximity:

Facebook "memories" are typically like "do you want to see your ex? Or your opinions from high school?" but today at least they're reminding me of my resident vulture flock when I was living at my mom's place, I miss having hundreds of vultures around every day

Looking forward to the third season of #Andor on Disney+, in which the Emperor Palpatine threatens Disney+ and gets them to cancel the third season of #Andor.

Delighted to get advertisements from laboratory supply companies. Need some lab-grade standard reference peanut butter? Good news! It's on sale for $1528 for ~1 pound.

I'm quite privileged in general, but especially relative to my many trans siblings who are unemployed and unhoused, so complaining feels so trite. But the postdoc job application stage is stressful enough without all of this. "Why is my eye twitching? Oh perhaps because they wanna put me in camps"

Does anyone else read about millionaires' obsession with mortality and just get confused? Like, why would you want to prolong your time here, if not to help people and ecosystems, and despite already having the means to do that they aren't, so....

Called the store's customer service today and of course they wanted details on which store associate hadn't been very concerned about my moth report Like hell I'm ratting out the bored high schooler working the checkout area at 9PM on a school day, nice try

I was taking photos of a mushroom when I realized I was being watched! (Eastern Chipmunk) #manmals 🌿

Went to Lowe’s for some bird seed and the entire aisle was swarming in pantry moths. Adults fluttering around, cocoons in and on the bags. I told employees, they didn’t seem too fussed. Started raving about how it took *years* to get them out of a former rental, I have nightmares about these shits

One for the #birdbutt enthusiasts, my favorite warbler butt-- I just love those spots on the bottom of Black-and-white Warblers!

the People's Warbler (Black-and-white Warbler) has my back, of course

Not great at flycatcher ID even when they're singing, and of course they're not really this time of year. This one has a very distinct yellow wash and was giving me Yellow-bellied Flycatcher vibes behavior-wise. Thoughts, @birderk.bsky.social or anyone else who likes silent flycatchers? In C. Ohio

One of those days that reminds me how much I need a better zoom lens. Many beautiful warblers in the park (Blue-winged, Black-throated Blue, Magnolia, Black-and-white, Ovenbird, American Redstarts) just out-of-reach of a 300x lens.

“It’s okay that I let my cat outside, *my* cat doesn’t eat native wildlife, I would know”

Googling "how to find a meteorite" and it tries to auto-fill "how to find a job" shots fired, man

I had to mail a paper version of my state tax return to Illinois because I didn't spend all of last year there. I did that in March. Got a letter saying I'd made an error and owed $1000. Turns out they'd made a typo manually typing in my forms. Seems like online entry would've prevented this

I've been so sad that this video was taken down so I could no longer watch the fireball that I'd seen from my couch in Illinois (just happened to be facing the right window at the right second). But it turns out there was another video all along and it's still up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOmQ...