Yesterday, I felt good enough to put the pond back together. I've missed watching it and the bird bath was not that well-visited. I also put out my photo setup again. Just one, and here are some visitors. A female and a male Redwinged Blackbird, a wet Blue Jay and a confused Oriole (wrong dish, mister!) I am livestreaming the pond on my website and on birdsy.com, check it out :)
The green silver lines moth, oh my god, they have SUCH a good colour palette! i encourange anyone to use these guys as an inspiration for art cause they're sooo unique and pretty!!
these guys are tiiiiny at 3.5cm, so you gotta make sure to look out for them if you wanna spot them, especially if you're looking for them while out :P
They live in europe and northern asia, so you goddamn know next season when they fly (june-july) i'll be trying to spot them
and to make it even better, they're not even a pest of anything! just an all around beautiful moth :3 i love them so much!!
More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.
For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.
Y’all know that quote “when men are oppressed it’s tragedy, when women are oppressed it’s tradition,” right? That’s a really good quote that is still relevant to the world in so many ways. But also, it made me realize something else.
When the rich are harmed it’s tragedy, when the poor are harmed it’s freedom.
"A female red-winged blackbird perches gracefully amidst the verdant foliage.” - Copilot with edits
I drove out to Alligator Lake this morning while it was still cool out. I started snapping pictures almost immediately and it when ready to leave I noticed that my camera's settings were still set up for shooting the moon. This photo of a female red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) turned out okay.
As I've mentioned, I have a gallery of my favorite photos at: https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com
Go there and take a look. Prints are for sale along with other doodads and I suppose it is kind of a business for me. But it's the kind of business where I don't care whether I sale anything or not. If you want something, by all means you are welcome to make a purchase. But I just want you to visit and maybe mark your favorites or leave a comment. Cheers 😄
Finally a male hummingbird yesterday! And the Birdfy hummer cam recorded him. Activity is still super low but their babies should start coming to feeders soon… There is still time to enter my Instagram giveaway of a feeder like this!
What the liberal really wants is to bring about change which will not in any way endanger his position. the liberal says, ‘it is a fact that you are poor, and it is a fact that some people are rich; but we can make you rich without affecting those people who are rich. - Kwame Ture