#ffconf was lovely. Thank you everyone! Extra thank you to the girl from Wales who recommended Komodo to me. Their coffee is so good. ☕️

The weather is rainy and gray but the teen-gulls are growing. This one was just a baby this summer but look at it now!

On my way to #ffconf! Last time I was there was in 2010. And it’s been a few years since I was at an international conf. Nervous! 😅

My dad who is 81 recently got into trouble cause the app where he pays his bills decided that his phone is too old. He has a fully functional phone that’s a couple of years old but he now needs to throw it away because of software. I think this is bullshit.

The waxwings have finally decided to pay a visit at my local park! But almost all the people who passed them got their headphones on and stared intently into the ground. They missed the feast of berries and the sound of tiny silverbells. (I wanted to tell them. But I’m a swede so of course I […]

These berries are mine! Don’t even think about it!

They sky is dark grey. The sun and the light feels far away. Good thing that blue tits and yellow leaves exists.

Sometimes I do very much wish I had a bigger lens. 😓 But at least I was able to capture a memory of the drama with a couple of crows harassing a female sparrowhawk.

Just got another "why are you posting photos when <bad thing> is happening". While posting photos may not be the most socially productive activity, it beats scolding strangers on the Internet by miles.

Are you really allowed to be this cute?

Said hello to the tawny owl today. Checked the data on the place and it could be that the same owl has been there for about nine years now. I wonder how old they are?

This morning was freezing cold and I didn’t have enough warm clothes. But it was so pretty!

When you’re in the park and you get the feeling that someone is staring at you. 👀 Yep, it’s the jay, every single time.

Got the latest issue of my local birding magazine. Of course our fancy american gull visitor is on the cover! 😆

I felt really discouraged when I woke up and heard the wind howl. It was really windy. After going back and forth I still decided to go out. Didn’t see much and it was, of course, really hard to hear something. But I caught this pair of tree sparrows taking […] [Original post on front-end.social]

I was here this morning. Yes, for people birding in my area, I wanted to see the stonechat. It really is very rare here and I don’t even remember the last time I saw it. I did see it. In fact I spent over an hour watching it pop up and down searching for […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me #accessibility #alttext #blind

Yesterday morning while I was out walking in the fog a tiny chiffchaff landed right in front of me. I often hear these birds but almost never get a good look so this was really cool. Why does it look so shy though?

So little birding-story from this week. On thursday at lunch I got a notification on BAND, an app not necessarily made for birding, but heavily used among birders in Sweden. The notification said: Glossy ibis seen at Broängarna, Upplands-Bro.

Met some greylag and barnacle geese today. But I miss the white-fronted geese. They got this happy sound. Hopefully they start passing by in big numbers soon.

It’s #wrensday! *screams*

Seen some bad alt examples recently like ”screenshot”, ”website” and ”poem”. So here’s some thoughts. I think many people think of alt as an image description and then, subconsciously, describe it to people with sight. But alt is a substitute for the image. So maybe ask this question instead […]

Om du är medlem så glöm inte att rösta idag för att mota högerkrafterna och värna våra skogar.

Hello accessibility friends, I'm working on gathering information for accessibility bug tickets - our customer supporters would like to know what to ask the people chatting in. My first concern is how to respectfully find out as much as we can about the customer's setup without outright asking […]

I offer up these #gulls for meme creation

Young mute swans are so pretty! 🩵

Anyone else having issues subscribing to newsletters from @buttondown ? I’ve tried several adresses and either they say that my email is not accepted or I never get a confirmation link. It’s really annoying. I even tried a gmail adress.

There is an ongoing invasion of migrating coal tits in my parts of Sweden right now. I went out to a nearby forest this morning and found one of them. Yay!

Some sparrows on the lookout. Nothing escapes them!

#silentsunday #butts

Testar Storytel och lyssnar på Skogslandet. Antagligen tre år efter alla andra? Blir extremt provocerad och arg. Vill genast köpa skog bara för att skydda. Går det?

Zum Abschluss der heutigen Session noch ein Stelzenläufer mit seinem Sprössling At the end of today's session, a stilt walker with his offspring #bretagne #brittany #nature #naturephotography #birds #birding #birdwatching

Yay for jays! So loud and always looking so very pleased. Thank you for showing off during my morning walk.

This morning when the eagle in the tree moved a little. Honestly it felt like some of the crows love the excitement here. 😁

I’m trying to id this bird that I spotted yesterday. I got a guess but if anyone has an opinion I like to hear it! What is this? Added info. It was swimming alone, very small in size compared to the gadwells nearby and it dived a lot.

The [object Object] though 💀 https://front-end.social/@mayank/115079277665290740

I would like to get better at spotting the age of gulls. So went to take some photos the other day. Yes, I’m going down the gull swamp, ”trutträsket”. 😅

Companies, organizations and restaurants on social media linking to their website which got nothing but a redirect to their social media. Why?

The bluethroats are migrating! Which means we’ve got a short period to spot them before they move south. I saw my first for this autumn today. 💙🧡 (Not the best photo. But I didn’t want to disturb it by moving closer.)

If anyone needed yet another reason… https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/115033458609955638

Min serie brukar inte kommentera current affairs, men AI behövde jag säga någonting om, här kommer fyra strippar:

Been sick for a few days but felt a bit more okay this morning so went for a short walk to the park. Heard very loud munching right next to my head. Looked up. A red squirrel thinking it was invisible. Shot this with my phone. 🐿️😅

"Embrace AI or get out" Welcome to the out club.

I’m prepared, but not happy, to clean up after a lot of reckless vibe coding. Is that ”embracing AI” enough? https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ab289yb80msrm3zk

Inspired by the gull discussions with @idzie and @fabriek and by the photos posted by @ksa @JimsPhotos I need to post a photo I took of a common gull a couple of weeks ago. To me they always look a little guilty and this one is definitely doing: ”It wasn’t me, I’m walking away now!”

All the birds are hiding right now and I don’t blame them. ☀️

Cool thing: Been digging in the archives again and discovered that I have a living relative who is into beekeeping and seems to be pretty badass at it. Like travelling around the country doing courses. 🐝 Not so cool thing: My computer overheated. 🥵