From this afternoon’s walk along the greenbelt: About as many monarch butterflies in one photo as I’ve seen in the last few years!
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2022/01/monarchs/
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From this afternoon’s walk along the greenbelt: About as many monarch butterflies in one photo as I’ve seen in the last few years!
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2022/01/monarchs/
https://twitter.com/KelsonV/status/1482964420686843905/photo/1
Distant Snow. (I already used the “Far Snows” caption.) #mountains #trees #snowline
Some #Pokemon-themed Jack-O'-Lanterns we carved for this #Halloween.
Look, I get it, we all want to return to normal, but can we at least wait until after Halloween to put up the Christmas decorations? #HolidayCreep
It turns out the crows *had* been trying to scare off a hawk that had killed a pigeon and settled into the tree to eat it. At first I could only see the occasional feather raining down, until I moved to where I could see through a gap in the branches.
The hawk was huge. It’s probably one of the hawks that I see around regularly, but most of the time they’re up in the sky or perched high enough I don’t have any sense of their scale.
#photo #birds #hawk #nature #BirdOfPrey
This was just on the corner of a block in the suburbs. People were still out watching (and the crows hadn’t returned) when I decided to continue on my walk.
Usually I see the red-tailed hawks out by the nearest school field or the greenbelt by the power transmission lines, and I only see the smaller cooper’s hawks along the residential streets.
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This hawk had killed a pigeon(?) and brought it to this tree on the corner of a suburban block to eat it. People were standing out in their front yards watching it. Feathers were dropping as it ate.
It’s probably one of the same hawks I see in the area from time to time, but it looked huge. Though that could just be from it being a lot closer to the ground than I usually see them!
As soon as I stepped out the door for a walk this morning, I heard a lot of crows making a lot of noise down the street. They were perched on a telephone pole, flying up and swooping around like they were trying to scare off a hawk.
Of course I walked toward them to see what was going on.
By the time I reached the end of the block, the crows had given up and flown off. But I noticed people were out in their front yards looking up at a tree…
#photo #crow #TelephonePole #birds #BlackAndWhite
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These crows were making a huge racket, some of them taking off, swooping and perching again, trying to scare off a hawk that had caught a pigeon and was eating it in a nearby tree. The hawk didn’t leave. The crows did.
It turns out having a wide angle lens on your phone is really helpful for catching sun halos!
#photo #halo #StopSign #sky #silhouette
Best start believin’ in ghost stories…
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Covid mask PSA spotted in the wild. It’s in a nearby city that I don’t normally go to (or through) these days, so I hadn’t seen the slogan before.
Covid mask PSA: Wearing is caring.
Apparently Mojang hired Anakin Skywalker to write the captions for block descriptions in #Minecraft Earth.
Smoky sun, late afternoon.
We’ve had some ashfall over the past week, but for the most part, the air quality at ground level has only been awful, not unbearable. Especially since the heat wave subsided.
But the light has just been *wrong*. Normal clouds in the morning breaking up to reveal a layer of smoke behind them, letting through yellow-orange, almost but not quite late afternoon light at midday. I went out for a walk after work, once it had cooled down and saw this.
Fortunately, Spark is considerate enough to wear a face mask per pandemic recommendations.
Of course my 2000th observation posted to iNaturalist would be the Goodfeathers…
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58559107
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