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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme by Helen Bennett is: #AwesomeOwls These long-eared owls were raising their two fledglings last year on trees between houses in my area of Berlin - not outskirts, but near an large open area (former airport Tempelhofer Feld). The fledglings were screeching a lot! 🙂

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Don’t allow anyone to tell you that there’s “no market” for a career as the eccentric yet mysterious owner of a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh that doubles as a café, triples as a bakery, and quadruples as a cat rescue.

Bluesky has… uh, five kinds of users

Ihr seid alle so gechillt & habt keine Zeitumstellungswitze gemacht, so dass ich die ganze Zeit dachte, die Zeitumstellung wäre nächstes Wochenende...! Und erst gerade, als ich den Wecker auf dem Handy gestellt habe, kam ich ins Nachdenken, als er mir eine Stunde möglichen Schlaf länger anzeigte...

Ich habe die 180 (oder sowas) Din-A-4-Seiten in zwei Tagen verschlungen, und meine belesene Freundin sagt, sie sei "in das Buch hineingefallen". Kennt hier jemand jemanden, der eine passende Literatur-Agentur o.ä. kennt? Oder anderweitige Tipps? #bücher #literatur #buchbubble #lesen Gerne teilen!

Schnatterente #Birds #gadwall #NaturePhotography

The game's afoot! youtube.com/shorts/RC2pF...

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Sehr brisant und im Nachwahl-Rauschen untergegangen: Es gab keine Warnungen des Verfassungsschutzes zu den drei Buchläden, die Weimer vom Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis ausschloss. Weimer hat hier mit bemerkenswerter Dreistigkeit gelogen.

What a difference a white dot makes! #screenprint #robin

The waye to figure out yf you are talkinge wyth a cat on the ynternet ys to aske the person you are talkinge to "have you been fedde" and yf thei saye "no my bowle ys alwayes emptye" BINGO you are talkinge wyth a catte on the internet. The Purring Test.

Some experts say the cats have been fed. Speak to the cats themselves, however, and you'll hear a different story. One that may shock you. On our new, six part podcast, we ask the big question: In the war between experts and cats... ...just who can we truly believe?

The American Bittern will stick his/her neck straight up to mimic a cattail reed, sometimes swaying in the wind to add to the reed vibe.

The ancient Heron number system is rarely used now, but Herontorians think it went... Onegret Twogret Threegret Siege! 🧮

Tom's Diner in der Originalfassung von Suzanne Vega, aber auf einer Karaokemaschine...

Krickente auf der Flucht 🙂 #Birds #teal #NaturePhotography

Finally found a White-headed Woodpecker that didn’t hitch around to the back side of the tree the second I raised my lens. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&White #WoodpeckerWednesday #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Y'all ever wonder if there are aliens with pictures of us freaking the fuck out during a planetary species health check and share it around galactic Twitter like "this one was so cute! He didn't know he was safe! They're called Fukfuks after the noise they make!"

Nice try

Atlantic Birding’s #BirdOfTheDay theme today is: #Black&White; any bird with Black & White plumage Alt. is #Colourful The #Black&White Magpie enjoyed this natural perch on the birch with its black & white bark. Before, I caught the bird showing the moulting patch on its neck.

Being North America's smallest woodpecker means you can hang from the smallest of branches. 📷: Downy Woodpecker

AT THE VAMPYRE BUSINESSE MEETINGE: "What we reallye need to do ys reach out to the stakeholders." [awkwarde silence]

Ich zu Lorenz: wow, stell dir vor, jetzt kommt da hinten so ein Rothirsch auf die Lichtung. Wäre so schön mit dem Gegenlicht und dem Nebel! In dem Moment tritt ein Rothirsch auf die Lichtung. Fast in Ohnmacht gefallen in dem Moment! 😵‍💫

Happy 🇨🇦 Thanksgiving, however you choose to celebrate.
Norman here was seen tucking into a tasty abandoned hornets’ nest this morning — so each to his or her own, gastronomically speaking, I guess. 🤪 #crows

"Quantitively yours"

Finally, a picture that captures my essence.

Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.

2027 calendars are now available to preorder. Sales haven't been great this year so any reposts much appreciated! juliaallum.co.uk/product/2027... #travelposters #shopsmall

Ils existent !

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one.

Outside the window, the Green Woodpecker appears totally confident that he's hiding on the right side of the trunk and can't be seen. Note the red patch in the middle of the black mustache, signifying it's a male.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Wenn man ein Klebeband abzieht, kann Röntgenstrahlung entstehen. Zumindest für Sekundenbruchteile. Eine Forschungsgruppe gelang es 2008 sogar, mit dieser Strahlung ein Röntgenbild eines Fingers zu machen.