Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) in red dirt water at Lake Thunderbird in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on April 21, 2025
Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025May06_birds_and_cats/2025apr21_duck_IMG_3393c.html
#birds #ducks #teal #Spatula #wildlife #LakeThunderbird #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) at Lake Thunderbird in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on April 14, 2025
Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Apr19_birds_and_cats/2025apr14_duck_IMG_3352c.html
#birds #LakeThunderbird #teal #ducks #Spatula #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography
My letterbox is heavily-sprung and it's difficult to post things through without catching your fingers.
Just now I heard I noise in the hallway, and went to take a look.
The clearly well-prepared local #leafleteer for the #LibDems just poked the #election leaflet through with a fucking #spatula, lmao.
I know who I'm #voting for.
Another wooden #spatula
#woodcrafts #crafts #craftsman #handmade
About-daughter-in-law asked me to make a #spatula for her. So I did.
Blue-winged Teal (Large Ducks by AAA)
Despite sharing the common name ‘teal’, the Blue-winged Teal (BWTE, Spatula discors) is not in the same genus (Anas) as the Green-winged Teal (GWTE) from my earlier review, although it was for a period. The genus Spatula, originally described in 1822 and eventually placed in synonymy with Anas, was resurrected in 2009 after a molecular phylogeny looking at two mitochondrial genes (cytochrome […]
Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/blue-winged-teal-large-ducks-by-aaa/
Expanded from 497 characters to 390 words, over on ErosBlog:
https://www.erosblog.com/2024/08/14/fresh-buttercream/
#Buttercream #Frosting #DomesticBliss #FrostedBuns #Joke #TheNymph #BendOver #Spatula #TasteTest #Cooking #Cake #Decorating #Kitchen #Entendre #Lewd
The cloud this old man is going to yell at today; #Stores asking for information they know damn well they DON'T need.
To cut a long story short, someone wrecked my mom's favourite #spatula this morning by leaving it near a #Stoveburner. I went out to buy a replacement, but my mom said it was metal and would scratch the pans.*
I went back to exchange it for a plastic spatula, BUT the store insisted I had to give them my #phonenumber and #fullname.
There are so many words we still use that have barely changed over thousands of years. #TIL that "spatula" comes to English via Latin from from the Ancient Greek word σπάθη -- spáthē -- meaning "broad wooden or metal blade." It is also the linguistic ancestor of the French word "épée" (sword).
Language is stupid amazing.
#ILoveLanguages
#etymology
#English
#Latin
#AncientGreek
#French
#linguistics
#spatula
#SpatulaCity
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) and Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, United States on October 16, 2023
Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2023Oct16_SaltPlainsNWR/2023oct16_duck_IMG_6943c.html
#birds #ducks #marsh #wetland #SaltPlainsNWR #Oklahoma #teal #Anas #NorthernShoveler #Spatula #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #reflections
Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, United States on October 16, 2023
Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2023Oct16_SaltPlainsNWR/2023oct16_duck_IMG_6930c.html
#duck #bird #Spatula #NorthernShoveler #SaltPlainsNWR #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wetland #marsh #Oklahoma #photography #reflections