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  Bad hard day. At least I made a giant pot of stew?? Later, I need to get quinoa made, which will be turned into a salad tomorrow...

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  I really needed to be left alone, no one touching or disturbing me last night, so Oscar decided it was a great idea to spend ALL NIGHT shoving my feet off of the bed with his sprawling, lying on top of my ankles, and repeatedly poking me in the legs with his pokey paws. I do not feel well rested. 🥲

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  Ahhhhhhhh (confused feelings about being very let down and disappointed by one friend, while feeling very cared for and appreciated by a different one)

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  Sitting on the floor with my whiny old dog. Struggling lately to manage his arthritis pain well enough, caring for an ancient creature is so heartbreaking.

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  We were trying Oscar on antihistamines but found they were making him too sleepy and sedated, so we stopped last night and now tonight he's EXTRA saucy and full of vim to make up for it

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  I asked a friend for recommendations on affordable fountain pens and inks and she's coming through with obvious glee!

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  A 🤍 of a heron. #birds #birding #herons

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  In the backyard today: cardinals (including fledglings!), song sparrows, robins, and a red-eyed vireo (unusual in the yard!). You can feel the beginnings of movement, migratory birds shifting as they prepare to leave (like the vireo). Some have even left already, it's a very bittersweet time to me.

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  Good morning from Mr Sleepyhead

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  Someone with a fucking leaf blower blowing dirt off of their driveway, and the whole section of street stinks of gas.

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  A female widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa), glowing in the sun. #dragonflies #insects #insectphotography

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  Lots of people have a thing against flies, but no one can tell me that this goth one, an adorned bee fly (Exoprosopa decora), isn't cool. #insects #flies #insectphotography

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  When I was a kid I thought that the sound of cicadas was the sound the power lines made when overheated by the summer sun. I have a friend whose childhood belief was that it was the sound of the sun itself. Which is all just to say that the cicadas have started singing.

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  I've wanted to see black terns since I first learned of their existence, and yesterday I finally did! They're not rare where I live, but neither are they common, and I just hadn't managed to go on any small adventures to look for them at the places they often turn up at (yes that was a pun). They're smaller than the terns I've seen before (common and caspian), but share the same fluttery flight, the same sudden dives. Terns are magical birds, I just love watching them. #bir...

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  If you've ever wondered what a fledgling red-winged blackbird looks like, I've got you covered!

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  Because things can never be simple, my father got a new AC unit for my sister's room (she's even more sensitive to heat since she got so sick, and she was always pretty heat sensitive), and she can't use it because it makes a horrible very low frequency noise that makes her feel ill (the kind of sound you can feel in your chest). And because he's like that, my father destroyed the box getting it out so can't return it, so my sister is going to buy her own damn AC and I'm...

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  Baby watches their reflection. #birding #blackbirds #fledglings

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  I'm having so much fun with iNaturalist over the past few months. Figuring out identifications for the plants, insects, fungi, etc. around me. I love when I post an observation down to the species level, and I think I've got it but I'm not 100% sure, and then it's confirmed by like, a grad student studying that specific genus of plants.

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  Actually getting myself out early because I have a call with a friend planned, and when I have a call I just take a walk with my phone.

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  I see so many people saying they've been swooped by red-winged blackbirds and I never have? Threatened, sure, in that way they'll stalk towards you singing their territorial song, but never swooped. I wonder how common it is? If you live in a region with red-winged blackbirds...

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  A midland clubtail (I think? There's at least one other similar looking clubtail in my area), Gomphurus fraternus, pondering the leaves. #dragonflies #insectphotography

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  I saw this dragonfly and, thinking myself clever, thought "ah! I know those wing markings, that's a (female) common whitetail" but no! When looking them up at home, I found out that this is actually a twelve-spotted skimmer, Libellula pulchella, either a female or a naiad but I don't know enough to tell the difference. Turns out dragonflies come in confusing plumage as well! And now I know how to tell them apart. #dragonflies #insectphotography

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  A stream cruiser (Didymops transversa) with breakfast. I was thrilled to finally encounter a dragonfly who, for a short moment, actually perched near to me! #dragonflies #insectphotography

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  @miyotehew@turtleisland.social what a nice shot, I love these birds! I heard a couple calling on my last birding outing, but couldn't spot them...

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  Let's try something fun for my fellow lovers of the living world: paint an ecological portrait of where you live (with words!), focusing on native plants and wildlife, geological features, anything natural you want, without actually saying where you live or naming particular sites or features. Then others can guess what part of the world you're describing (in as broad or as narrow a way as they wish to: from an individual region of a province/state, to a whole continent). What do...

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  An absolutely perfect little muppet of a baby northern cardinal, having just survived their very first hail storm (poor thing). #birds #birding

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  Owww head AGAIN!!

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  My walks are once more punctuated by the surprised shrieks and angry chattering of the chipmunks.

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  A sweet flicker I met recently.

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  My beloved white-throated sparrows are everywhere right now, digging in the leaf litter, chasing each other, singing, calling, and surveying their (temporary, as they're only passing through) domains. #birds #birding #sparrows