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Scrub jay of summer (I hope I don’t get sued by Don Henley)

A California scrub jay perched on a wooden railing.

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Didn’t see as many birds this morning. But still glad I went to look.

A bushtit clinging to a branch with clusters of beige flowers in a blurred natural background.

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When I rolled up to the park, there were like thirty county or city work vehicles in the parking lot. Didn’t stay to see what it was so I went to a backup spot real quick. Northern mockingbird w nesting material.

A northern mockingbird standing on a spiny branch with twigs in its beak.

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We report: it is very late, and looking out to the west, the sun has been extremely stubborn about setting, the greedy thing. The last of the purple light is just beginning to fade, and the first stars appear behind the clouds. Tonight, we see Castor and Pollux before any other.

Digital painting of a dark blue sky, hints of purple in the lower tier of the frame. There are a dark blue clouds at the top and bottom of the frame, and two neighbour stars are shining in between.

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Oh my goodness. 🥹 When I went to open the back window just now, I found this darling little mini-loaf* snoozing on the railing of the deck. *baby house sparrow

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We report: there it is, this is June, to the East between the clouds. We try to remember what it was like the previous year, walking into summer, but we can barely recollect anything. It all gets lost in the heat, maybe, but we hear the beginnings of a shower at this very moment.

Digital painting of a dusk sky, almost entirely covered in dark blue clouds, with only a stripe of light blue in the lower tier of the frame. There is a touch of yellow light touching the clouds in the middle of the frame.

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Sigil 5 (A Slow-Moving Tower of Babel)
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12" x 12"
Acrylic, Charcoal, Graphite, Collage, Silver and Gold Leaf
Wood Panel

A three-winged, many-eyed angel resembling a crown of thorns hovers above a black tower. Near it, a Wormrōte sigil reads 'A Slow-Moving Tower of Babel'. Behind them, a faint collage of hymns can be seen in the background, and various details such as sigils are gilded in silver and gold leaf.

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We report: there was fog when we fell asleep last night, and it has not entirely lifted yet in the blue morning. There is a sea in the field. We are squinting at it as though it were the glare of the sun, hoping to see through it. We get mist in our eyelashes for our troubles.

Digital painting of a blue, foggy morning scene in the countryside. The treeline is blurred through the thick mist, which is low on the ground in the field.

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We report: morning, the sunrise is starting to show colours through the clouds. The leaves are heavy with dew, and rain is fast approaching. The air is already charged with that humid morning smell, but there is definitely rain on top. It feels icy as it goes through our nose.

Digital painting: dawn sky, periwinkle clouds rimmed with bright pink at the bottom. A bit of clear sky is visible in between some of the clouds, an almost white shade of blue.

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A White-crowned Sparrow in the garden

#birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #garden #sparrow

A White-crowned sparrow on a stone in the garden.
Fresh green False Solomon's Seal in the background.

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a wild swamp garlic

a beautiful grackle stands on a log emerging from some reflective water. they are surrounded by sparse green grasses and are partially obscured by a plant in the foreground. they have a striking iridescent blue head and neck that ends abruptly in deep black feathers with little green iridescent highlights and a brown to purple wing. their face is like conical almost and their beak is such a classic "beak" like its matte black and has a little jagged edge and is very point. they also have a bright yellow eye with a solid black pupil in the middle. these guys really get me how pretty they are. they're so common that you tend to overlook them a lot of the time but the colors are really incredible when you catch them in the right light. also in the background are the large bases of two trees. one closer to the camera than the other. the bark of the one that is farther back on the left is reflected in the water along the whole left of frame. the water is like old bottle glass as it is very shiny smooth with little dots of bugs or pollen or something on the surface distributed evenly through throughout the water

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Close-up of a California Scrub Jay bird perched on a wood bench with a background of foliage

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We report: it is marshy here, and there are all sorts of strange plants that we do not know, burrowed in the damp. So it is especially chilly at sunset, not matter how warm the day has been. The wet grass whips our ankles; the glare of the orange sun blinds us for a few seconds.

Digital painting of a sunset scene in the countryside. The sky is orange, a subtle gradient with a small, thin yellow cloud floating there. The landscape: blue mountains in the distance, then a line of green trees, and a field of tall grass that the sunset tints orange in some places.

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The 11th annual international Gender Census 2024 is now open until at least 13th June 2024!

https://survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

#gender #survey #LGBT #LGBTQ

Title: Gender Census 2024.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Two boxes, one green malachite with a Venus symbol on it, one pink rhodochrosite with a Mars symbol on it.

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Here is a very much zoomed in look at one of the juveniles (the one shown on the left in the previous photo), mouth open to practice some gular fluttering (a way of cooling off by opening eir bill to help dispel extra heat). #TeamCorvid

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the abundance of blessing

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earlier today I thought "damn I haven't photographed the moon in a bit" but then tonight happened

photo of a crescent moon; a tiny sliver of orange yellow in a black abyss

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We report: as soon as the sun got high enough in the sky (early, the solstice is getting nearer), it got rather warm. No wind to speak of, so when the clouds came, they were welcome. Billowing mountains grew through the long afternoon from the dust on the horizon.

Digital painting of some tall, voluminous clouds in the late afternoon light; stark contrasts, blue shadows and yellow tones in the light. There is a piece of roof in the lower right corner of the frame.

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First known symbolic gesture observed in birds; scientists recorded the Japanese tit using repetitive wing movements to signal "after you" to others.

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00339.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

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We report on a moonless night: the power is out in the neighbourhood. Our eyes are tired, it is a balmy spring evening, and when we look up, we cannot help but think the stars are about to fall on us. They flicker. We lose our balance as we forget where the ground is.

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