Rolling Avian Issues Thread

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LJ - do you have any current avian issues your fellow ILAFL posters can help you with?

theoretical structural avian issues case study -- the owls of the royal london borough of kensington and chelsea are creating unsolicited noise past the 23:00 threshold beyond which environmental health law might be employed to curtail wanton festivity or force the all england club to postpone prolix quarter finals, yet there appears to be no legally actionable remedy against the owls, and the environmental-communitarian praxis supplanting that law prohibits the reasonable suggestions of the local citizenry and nondomiciled residents that all trees or treelike growths or structures be removed in order to coerce rustication among strigiformes and lesser diurnal avians, just as unwanted housing benefit claimants can now be swiftly despatched to the provinces in the manner of tudor mendicants.....what is to be done?

clearly tree destruction is out of the question but there is no statute mandating inviolable life-rights of rodentine vermin such as provide owls their primary nutritional source. perhaps the solution would be to bioengineer a disease that swiftly and entirely obviates the urban rat and mouse population, and simply observe the owls radiate away from the royal boroughs in search of prey

god there is that really unpleasant gif of a load of owls sitting together and one of them eating a live rat, i don't want to see it again but it's probably worth searching the other owl threads for to see just once

that is a good plan but killing rats is virtually impossible, from memory there are only a few sub-arctic islands and remote canadian prairie settlements without rats, the combined biosciences/big pharma expertise of the borough's plutocracy would surely find it easier just to engineer a virus to kill owls along with pigeons, sparrows and other avian plebes, while leaving the rats so they can feed imperial golden eagles and peacocks or whatever

i saw an absolutely enormous rat the size of a squirrel on borough high street yesterday. it was dragging half a hotdog along. popped into a cranny, then briefly re-emerged as if to parade its scavengings before my friend and i

the flaw in your latest plan is that raptors are usually far more susceptible to disease than more complex/'developed' passerine species - and if you wipe out the insectivores you essentially eliminate the foodsource of most larger carnivores, unless the butchers of the parish are willing to cast out offal when the eagle's cry is heard. peacocks, their cry aside, are fairly dismal birds and will surely succumb to road traffic inside half a week. barring total avian apocalypse, the solution will unfortunately have to involve top-down ecosystemic change, and this would by definition involve the introduction of a species which preys on owls - perhaps a genetically modified race of cuckoos that will target larger bird species, causing a dip in all non-passerine numbers, before settling on woodpigeon as their primary host after all the owls are gone

of course, let us not forget that the problem is not the owls per se but the owls' noise. it would not be difficult to electrify every strigiforme eyrie and train the owls by aversion therapy to not hoot. this is of course assuming they have the cerebral capacity to register causality. failing this, fry the bastards - most owls take formerly-used nests as their home, so immigrants will soon meet the same fate without extra expenditure locating and installing the apparatus. might get a few opportunistic crows into the bargain; quod callidus erat, fatalis est

of course, quod is neuter singular, and 'callidus' is not, occasioning great anguish in my breast. the second time this week i have fallen foul of latinate gendered endings on ilx

Easy for you to say the owls shouldnt give a hoot, but it does raise the issue of the right of the owl to issue his call and raises a vital question, to wit: to who does the owl cry in the dark

that's far too good for excelsior

Clumsy enough imo and leaving out the m after who now has my mind on ents but there you are

sometimes the speed of wit exceeds perfection

Too wit to rue

tourette's too, you

e's avian laugh

oiseaux serious

Threatening to revisit the great duckjoke threads

skrue mcduck thread is possibly all-time ilx top 5

Ya

In aon chur, oiseaux serious? Parceque je ne suis pas serein, non

trilingual puns are possibly where I tap out - too many pidgins accruing

i saw an absolutely enormous rat the size of a squirrel on borough high street yesterday. it was dragging half a hotdog along. popped into a cranny, then briefly re-emerged as if to parade its scavengings before my friend and i

― imago, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:27 (40 minutes ago)

so gross, although squirrel sized rats are not uncommon it's just their bushy tails suggest they are larger, rats the size of cats still one of the grottiest images in nursery rhyme law

there is probably some maoist insurrectionary out there catalyzing rat fecundity in rich districts, if superprime london housing is going to increase at 10% p/a for the rest of time like those panglossian fund managers are saying, then rat infestations would for sure do the reverse

in which case those fund managers should invest in industrial owl farms, how to get these asocial birds to pullulate and counter-infest

Just turns into a ratrace tho

trouble with owls is that they tend to leave pullulates of rat keratin & bone everywhere; this will reduce the problem but won't eradicate it entirely

of course, if the owls manage to control the rat population, they effectively control their own population, leading to a boom/bust cycle that may at length synchronise with that of the housing market

spotted today: group of about 8 or 9 bright young marketing types with tons of extremely expensive camera equipment in Maryon Park, one of whom was prancing around on the grass throwing bits of bread high into the air

upon questioning it transpired that they were attempting to serenade 'the birds' to come and parade on film

i dispensed the cursory advice that a feeding-table near plant cover and a modicum of patience might be more lucrative, and left them to their mad march rite, the invocation of the Perfect Footage

they seemed impatient, alas. how, then, could they have obtained their quarry? the crass among you may suggest cgi, the artful a complex system of capture nets, digitally removed in postproduction, leaving only the frenzied oscillations of the afternoon chorus

did you ask any of them out?

I do adore our avian comrades but I don't think it'd work. We'd be too similar

wrong sized bottoms?

only end up fighting over the blood sausage

it's that impressive, eh?

this line of enquiry has me discomfited and i would prefer we address the accounted predicament

well that's a first

do u have any opinions on herons

we can be herons
if just for one day

you kids stay off the heron now, that shit'll mess you up

the german version of that could have been 'herren' with a little license

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHi9VIC9a8

yes

they are especially wonderful in flight - great, loping wings, instantly identifiable - and their terrestrial repose is exemplary

they are also surprisingly sly - I once raised a camera to capture a very peaceable-seeming specimen outside charing cross hospital in hammersmith, but upon inspection, the image was heron-free. it had flown, silently, in the moment of its chronicling

there is an intelligence in their eye that does not belong to many other non-passerines

i hear there are exemplary specimens in delaware

m8

they seem to have small bottoms

wading birds tend to be dolicocephalic, ectomorphic and micropygous

without looking up

big-headed, long-limbed, small-footed

ectomorphic is prob wrong

you don't know what she looks like?

http://i.imgur.com/8jIul8X.gif

i'd pleur that furrow! har de har har

oh as in callipygic

ffs micropodal wd be small footed

truly this is the thread of my classical education's undoing

also where i can make sub-snobes jokes

flocks of all feathers may roost herein

i hear there are exemplary specimens in delaware

― sarahell, Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you must not be hard of heron.

just saw an avian, a strigiform no less, with acephaly issues

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2606325/Emma-Stone-dazzles-second-time-one-night-changes-outfits-night-town-following-Berlin-premiere-The-Amazing-Spider-Man-2.html

just saw an avian, a strigiform no less, with acephaly issues

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, April 16, 2014 6:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this, at last, is the saddest thing

did its ladbroke grove looks turn you on?

cormorants?

that depends. when swimming they're essentially mundane grebes. when airdrying their wings they're magnificent. when flying purposefully down the thames they never fail to excite. catch them in either of the latter two aspects imo

Phalacrocoracidae!

^^^this literally means 'of the shaggy-fingered family' or somesuch, doesn't it

today i was about 10' away from a heron
just a small heron, maybe a bairn
so much dignity

http://dontdanceherdownboys.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/lush-promo_2b.jpg

birds of britpop - time for reevaluation

http://www.irishkop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18313

Admittedly after she left them she got a bit too butch for my liking, but she was gorgeous in that "dont speak" video.

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Birds in Bands

Myself and the boyfriend were discussing this lately. Basically, I said that women become more attractive to the opposite sex when in a band when in fact they are only 'normally' good looking.
He made the point that no good looking women in bands are actually talented and asked me to think of a few who were, only one I could think of was Charlotte Hatherley, and maybe yer one from the Zutons.
I dunno?

The Naked And Famous
“I like that. Have they got a bird in the band? Hmmm. You can’t have fookin’ birds in bands with all the lads.”

www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/shaun-ryders-ten-commandments-for-new-bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ooW5_TNNk

They are not afraid of the dead. They are small, alert, merry birds, some gray, others green; still others red and some yellow. Some are only red or blue on their chests, some only on their necks, some on their tails. Some are white with a blue throat; and I have seen some that are very tiny and proud, all white, spotlessly white. At dawn they begin to sing sweetly in the cornfield, and the Germans raise their heads from a gloomy slumber to listen to their happy song. They fly in thousands over the battlefields on the Dniester, the Dnieper, the Don. They twitter away free and merry, and they are not afraid of the war. They are not afraid of Hitler, of the SS, or of the Gestapo. They do not linger on branches to look down on the slaughter, but they float in the blue singing. They follow from above the armies marching across the limitless plain. The birds of the Ukraine are truly beautiful.

:O

Today, as I left my place of work, I saw a woodpigeon pecking for scraps by some litter bags, and was filled with what might have been a nostalgic urge to sigh, point and shoot.

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I was immediately struck with a sense of displacement. One is quite accustomed to seeing feral pigeons, derived of course from the Rock Dove, festooning sites of refuse upon city streets, but a woodpigeon is a different bird - a stately fowl, a strutting paragon of bucolic pride. It was quite disarming to see it deigning to feed upon human wastage in such a flagrant manner.

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As I approached, I considered the street I was in. Stanhope Gardens, an exemplar of the whitewashed largesse prevalent west of Marble Arch. A street of fabulous wealth and unconscionable expenditure. Perhaps, I thought, their waste was an altogether different class of cast-offs. Mountains of unwanted foie gras, rivers of freshly squeezed goji. Peelings and trimmings fit for a woodpigeon, drawn from the nearby acreages of Hyde Park to feast, decadently, upon something more enlivening than buds or grubs.

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But then I looked closer and noticed that the woodpigeon bore a pale scrap of feathers - a cosmetic imperfection upon its slate-rose mantle - and, somehow, an indication of feralness. The longer I looked, the more it was apparent that this tuft bespoke scuffles, malnutritions, genetic defects - it was the sign of a city pigeon, not a regal creature of the field. It may have come here to dine at the highest table, but in doing so, it has in fact lowered itself to the tier of a scoundrel, a street-thief, a loiterer...with that physical mark proof of its verminous trajectory. I felt a certain disappointment at this consideration.

http://i.imgur.com/fCKxvUw.jpg

And yet, that iridiscent sheen, that unmistakably portly bearing - in its comportment and waddle, it surely retains those noble aspects I'd momentarily thought lost? I watched its movements as it began to edge away from me. Still distinctly woodpigeon - unhurried, perhaps a little bit flustered, but certainly not scurrying or limping as the 'flying rat' of urban folktale might do. What, then, had been reduced? And it was as it mounted the steps to what I now recognised as its own abode that I saw it at last. The woodpigeon was no interloper or jack, no ravenous urchin. It had not grown an outward sign of imperfection through adversity. In fact, this was its very element! Surrounded by its like - proud and buff-chested masters of opportunity, who'd perhaps had to sacrifice a little elegance for their dramatic gains - it now ascended to its pantheon, its front porch. No regard it paid to the scrunched-up Wrigley's wrapper on the penultimate step; litter in such places is inevitable. It is simply a matter of finding the best litter; then one can say, even if nobody else will, that one is the best pigeon.

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"Quite so," said Frank, "I cannot tell the difference between a Princess Radziwil and a coachman."

"And you are wrong," I said.

All looked at me in wonder, and Frank smiled at me.

But at this juncture the door opened quietly and there appeared on a silver tray the roast goose, lying on its back amid a garland of potatoes roasted in fat. It was a round fat Polish goose with a flourishing bosom, full hips and a strong neck; and I cannot say why there came into my mind that its neck had not been cut in the good old-fashioned way, but that the goose had been shot against a wall by a platoon of SS men. I seemed to hear the harsh voice ordering "Fire!" and the sudden rattle of shots. No doubt the goose had fallen looking proudly into the eyes of the cruel oppressors of Poland. And I shouted "Fire!" as if to realize what that shout meant, that raucous sound, that harsh voice of command, almost as if I expected to hear the sudden rattle of rifles in the great hall of the Wawel.

<3 that's wonderful & dovetails perfectly w/ my dove tale

needless to say the odyssey of the woodpigeon stirred similarly, an incursion into the domain of the sootridden inner london pigeon, the true proprietor of the citadel, its neotenous shrunken form haunting the undersides of bridges and municipal wastelands

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Pedro is gone. The door was left open and my sweet beautiful lil bird Pedro is gone. So depressed. I'll be at legionnaire drinking away my sorrows tonight if u feel like giving me a hug, I will take as many as you can lay on me.

lol

http://www.cayman27.com.ky/files/2012/09/Cubans-escape-detention-facility-1024x576.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qvgNiKA.gif

saw a pair of Great Tits on the way to work y/day

did they have shitting dick nipples?

not so's i could see. they looked full of the joys of spring tho.

spriiiiing beeeeeeak foreeeeeever

^knows

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/nature/birds/bird_songs_interactive.html

^^ if you want to hear and not just look at those great tits

cop a trill

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9r756m33odA/T_EUGGyGHgI/AAAAAAAABGk/T48hEhT47J0/s320/fly+away_4.jpg

those pigeon photos are hilair

ty :)

now and then I'll try to make a decent ILX post, but usually only on ILAFL of course <3

the rest is indieprog challops and pizza zings

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:D

Saw this beautiful creature on the way home from work.

http://i.imgur.com/KZt3Yyw.jpg

I am going to choose to believe it wasn't after the cute baby moorhens.

frogs emerging yet? plenty of those to go around

Don't forget the robin!

i wish we could have uppers style music on this thread with lj's pigeon gif as a background

8-bit main refrain of my display name's inspiration imo

Oh man. Two STORKS, lolloping down the Thames. One perched on a houseboat. I am not making any of this shit up. I saw it from the tenth floor of a client's apartment block, but white storks they were without a doubt.

What can it portend?

this was the best photo; you can see it about to land on the houseboat

http://i.imgur.com/yEdQNg4.jpg

nice table

Where is that? I'm having real trouble placing that bridge, I must have been away from London too long

someone i know used to have a flat in that apartment block
some seriously wealthy people around there

never seen a stork

cool foto on the wikipedia page

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Stork_picking_at_rabbit.jpg

wikipedia also says jmw turner painted from that church but i can't find it

from the other side of the river, though

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-battersea-church-and-bridge-with-chelsea-beyond-d00857

ah man, it has a black tail so I'm not sure it wasn't a crane or an escaped yellow-billed stork now

just west of battersea bridge btw

Without a doubt? They were Egyptian Geese. Fooled by the white scapular patch. Bastards.

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Nice goose!

Do you get many of them around London? I know, London is a big place and that is a stupid question, but I have only seen the one around here. I think I told you of Oxford's leucistic Egyptian goose - I felt sorry for it being all on its own, so far from its natural habitat which I imagined to be, ooh, Egypt. But when I went to the Mosel valley last summer the riverbanks were full of (non-leucistic) Egyptian geese. Went to stroll through the hypocausts of the Roman baths at Trier, which was pretty cool, but I may have been more excited by the goslings huddling by the entrance

in other local bird news: six moorhen chicks in local nature garden pond; a few greylag goslings; saw two cygnets riding on their mother's back on Fri; keep seeing a heron near work and wasn't sure if it was the same one but I'm fairly sure it's at least two now

plus sorry to say, regarding your wood pigeon post, I put food out on the balcony railings which is generally eaten by magpies and wood pigeons (I was hoping to encourage the bluetits in the nearby tree but I've only seen them come down twice - maybe they do so when I'm not looking, though) and they seemed a whole lot more excited when I experimentally put some leftover chips out than by all the birdseed I'd been putting out up till then

You do get them in London, yes, and mostly the given coloration too. They tend to frequent large ponds in places like Hyde Park and Regent's Park but I've seen them on Blackheath as well. They're fairly tame things - unsurprisingly, given the UK population is largely made up of escapees - and I wasn't aware of the vivid black-and-white wing patterns in flight, hence the stork confusion.

Greylag goslings abounding on the Thames also, along with yer usual cormorants and gulls. Saw a tern up by Thamesmead the other day, too. 'Tis the season!

Your actions were not only generous but apposite - city birds aren't Real England until they're on a junk food diet, m8

Novel excuses for being late for work: I just picked a half-grown pigeon out of the river after it missed the bank

it was very cold and wet and shivery but it did not want to be dried on my coat and I didn't want to scare/squash it any further so I just left it to shiver in a tree

I admit its chances are probably not great but they're better now it's not in the river, anyway

True story: a few years ago I went to a Chinese restaurant around Chinese New Year season and they had a special menu on which included "pigeon in capital sauce"

we tried to order this but were told it had run out

at the end of the meal one of the fortunes in our fortune cookies read:

Be kind to pigeons, and one day they will build a statue of you

These are the chronicles of my attempts to be kind to pigeons

Previous attempt did not end well, young pigeon fell out of tree, broke wing; nearby animal rescue place did not answer phone, so took to vet who put it down: nothing he could do for a too-young-to-fly pigeon with a wing that would probably never set right. Perhaps best not to dwell on that attempt. Hope today's goes better.

omg that is a delightful confluence :D

i remember handling a dying pigeon at school and then freaking out in the subsequent science lesson that i had every contagious disease known to man, running to the toilets and washing my hands about 11 times

you did a good thing, and who knows, it's july, it might warm up. next time buy it some chips tho ;)

the delightful confluence was for the fortune cookie, not your doomed previous attempt, that was noble if not delightful

i'm in favour of all small subversions of natural selection

More worried about what I've caught from the river water than what I've caught from the pigeon tbh! Though people do swim in that stretch occasionally and I have not heard of any dying afterwards.

Are we not ourselves nature? xp

this could be an entire discourse of philosophy, let alone an ILX post, fwiw

being part of "nature" not the same as influencing the mechanisms of natural selection maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyCvFIZxWc

The owl was treated for its injuries at a local veterinary clinic, but later died of stress related to the incident. Moreno received a two-match ban, a $560 fine from Colombian football's governing body in addition to veterinary costs for the owl's treatment and was ordered to do community service at a zoo.[12]

a strigiform, no less

but whose, it will be asked, were the acephaly issues

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/4/4/9/0/2/5/angry-tweety-19834498220.jpeg

have you recovered?

Bridget Fonda. Rowrrrr.

― dinnerboat, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:41 (Yesterday)

there would appear to be more parakeets in london than in previous years, perhaps because it was a mild winter? there are thousands of the things and they are behaving as if they own the place

there's a roost in the central copse of wormwood scrubs common that is awesome and terrifying to hear at dusk

btw I noticed that the bird on the photo page of my new passport is a fulmar. fulmars are lovely birds, they fly with the stiffest of wings and have tubular noses

fulmar honoratus erit

fulmar honoratus in silva

tbf tbf they're birds of cliff and sea, an arboreal setting wd confound 'em

fulmar honoratus desilva

i don't even care what bird is printed on yr latepass

what is the most pretentious & overrated bird

flamingo, easy

but there are others

the flamingo at least has a weirdly ascetic diet

xp - you should think about the implications of how quickly you click "submit post"

oh ZING! that's some chirpy stuff

flamingos are rated?

flamingos are p rated. flamingo iconography in pop culture is p extensive

p

hate

ick

what about their backsides? amirite?

just realised that 'ha' and then '✓' would have been far, far better xp to selfe

Will not hear a word said against flamingos.

Feel like we are reaching 'peak owl' atm but they are still great so whatever.

ha-check?

when cephalous xp

p

ha

✓

i'm sorry but that is a "check mark"

oh, some eagle is probably the most pretentious/overrated. or the condor - especially dismal as saprophytic & literally only noteworthy for its wingspan, which the largest albatrosses have in greater supply regardless

sarahell i don't even are you trying to send me mad here lol

falcons >>>> owls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eagles > vultures

kites and harriers somewhere closer to owls than eagles tbfttls

he looked like a ha-check clerk at an ice rink, which in fact, he turned out to beeeee

sorry i'm basically spewing logorrhea because i'm tired but i'm going to bed now. sorry for ruining this thread

is there a ha-check there waiting for you?

let sex = sex

falcons >>>> owls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eagles > vultures

― imago, Saturday, 30 August 2014 22:18 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what about seahawks ravens and cardinals

And if you’re vegetarian, it could make a very suitable avian familiar.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/goths_and_metalheads_is_your_heart_black_enough_for_the_indonesian_ayam_cem

sweet, although all chickens are p stupid & characterless imo

ravens are ahead of falcons & indeed all corvids are among the best of birds. Seahawks are ok. cardinals...aren't they fairly innocent?

yeah cardinals are delightful songbirds but what they're doing in a raptor classification i simply do not know

nfl avians

Maybe when I wake up tomorrow I'll forget that the one team that links me to my childhood and that I truly take pride in (sorry, Yanks), just laid an egg that next Sunday will hatch into the 8-8 Arizona Cardinals, who were 3-7 outside of their historically shitty division, hosting the all-faggy-bird-team-name NFC Championship.

idk if mordy will take well to the eagles being included in that

http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/if-you-visit-cyprus-say-no-ambelopoulia

russian money, trapped birds

you need people willing to pay for this shit, is what the article doesn't contemplate, and the russian oligarch approach to ecological conservation is apocalyptic at best. the only way around this is to popularise other less harmful delicacies. tbf cypriot cuisine is fucking amazing and why would you need to eat songbirds when you could have souvlaki, sheftalia etc instead - this is like the ortolan thing except seven times more savage on account of the indiscriminate nature of it

that's probably a complete misreading & borderline antislavic racism given that there are enough native cypriot shipping magnates with sizeable enough gizzards to descrub an entire continent of warblers

when you have that much money, do you just start really enjoying the slaughter and consumption of pretty & rare things? is it a psychological inevitability?

*rereads Remainder*

they sell for $5 each apparently so scarcely as rarified as all that

just the sort of thing any sylvan dwelling cypriot bloke would have for supper of an evening

maybe drug dealers sell them along with other contraband

casu marzu stylee yh

but a single songbird is tiny, you'd need 7 or 8 to remotely sate you

would u be prepared to try it if an ecologist could persuade u that the relevant species are not in existential danger?

also prepared to eat bird entrails

That makes sense. It's weird to think of birds getting lonely and being super needy, but I guess it happens when you keep an animal capable of flight inside a house.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:25 (Yesterday)

i...oh this is v difficult. aesthetically no, gastronomically yes. let's say no because i never will, realistically

the only circumstance i would eat them is an uncovering of Real Cyprus with J Meades

oh yeah he is really into all sorts of grotty offal type things from provincial france

distinctly recall a Jeremy Clarkson tour of France wherein he ate ortolan

Meades would do similar but with tenfold grace & historiographic insight

http://online.wsj.com/articles/uncorking-the-city-birds-bubbles-pairs-champagne-and-fried-chicken-1411091445

haha I was going to ask abt ur WSJ membership but you don't actually need any more than is previewed

City Grit

http://i.imgur.com/tIO0iAt.jpg

this is where it will have all been heading

a strigiform, no less

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrSpP7qsZ1E

Der Alpenstrandläufer (Calidris alpina) ist eine zirkumpolar verbreitete Vogelart aus der Familie der Schnepfenvögel (Scolopacidae)

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/babes-of-the-bnp

http://i.imgur.com/Imw8bq8.jpg

In the warm rain of the next day the chiffchaff sings
among the rosy blossoms of the leafless larches, a small
voice that yet reaches from the valley to the high hill.
It is a double, many times repeated note that foretells the
cuckoo's. In the evening the songs are bold and full, but
the stems of the beeches are faint as soft columns of
smoke and the columns of smoke from the cottages are
like them in the still air.

Yet another frost follows, and in the dim golden light
just after sunrise the shadows of all the beeches lie on
the slopes, dark and more tangible than the trees, as if
they were the real and those standing upright were the
returned spirits above the dead.

Now rain falls and relents and falls again all day, and
the earth is hidden under it, and as from a land submerged
the songs mount through the veil. The mists waver out
of the beeches like puffs of smoke or hang upon them
or in them like fleeces caught in thorns : in the just pene-
trating sunlight the long boles of the beeches shine, and
the chaffinch, the yellowhammer and the cirl bunting
sing songs of blissful drowsiness. The Downs, not yet
green, rise far off and look, through the rain, like old
thatched houses.

http://i.imgur.com/OUAlkUT.jpg?1

wd not want to guess at the species

Canus iirc

some of these avians that they have now.....my word

http://i.imgur.com/Tr4w0Dr.jpg

www.theaviaryperth.com.au/

Welcome to The Aviary - Perth's largest rooftop bar with The Bird Cage Restaurant and lounge located on Level 1.

at this time of year, British avians are apt to be frigipedal and migratory

Your search - frigipedal - did not match any documents

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lV1fXHF05I/TuiPvRJAAlI/AAAAAAAACs4/fyuNJ4QyngQ/s1600/DSC00478.JPG

Caim In Bird Form received a limited cassette release through Digitalis earlier this year, and the Oklahoma imprint has confirmed that the record will get a full vinyl release next month. A press release for the LP describes is as "somewhere between Kassem Mosse, The New Blockaders and Zoviet*France."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvH9r8D9HU

The score is prefaced with the words:

Once I saw an Oockooing bird
so white
o God so white

from 1950 so he was 15 or 16 when he wrote it

In his travels he took great interest in wildlife and gave a scientific name to the Arabian woodpecker (Desertipicus (now Dendrocopos) dorae), as well as a subspecies (no longer valid) of an scops owl (Otus scops pamelae). Most of his birds were named after women whom he admired. He contributed numerous specimens to the British Museum. He also contributed to the draft of a book on the birds of Arabia by George Latimer Bates. It was not published but was made use of in Birds of Arabia (1954) by Richard Meinertzhagen. Philby is remembered in ornithology by the name of Philby's partridge (Alectoris philbyi). [11][12]

Meinertzhagen's passion for bird-watching began as a child. He and his brother Daniel (VII) were encouraged by a family friend, the philosopher Herbert Spencer, who, like another family friend, Charles Darwin, was an ardent empiricist. Spencer would take young Richard and Daniel on walks around their home in Mottisfont, urging them to observe and enquire on the habits of birds. Around 1887 they kept a pet sparrowhawk, which they would take to Hyde Park to let it prey on sparrows.

many aeroplane takeoff accidents happen when birds are disturbed by one plane and then get struck by another's jet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zB7Z-b6Kc

Nadeem Moulana
4 years ago

this video is so trippy, I love the sounds. I watched it when I was high and I can never forget the last seconds when you can see the grass as the planes smashes the ground. This is awesome footage, one of my favorite videos on youtube.

women - public strain [Started by Palpatean Mists (Lowell N. Behold'n) in March 2011, last updated 3 minutes ago by imago on I Love Music] 1 new answer

i liked that jet crashing video too

fwiw I own a copy of The Charm Of Birds, a season-by-season observational account of Britain's avians penned by long-serving Foreign Secretary Edward Gray, who strove in vain to prevent World War 1 before composing his masterpiece

fairly interesting figure as late-empire uk political highrankers go

edward grey did very little to prevent anything, his actions and inactions mostly followed a via media between the hard right of the army hierarchy and the liberal mainstream, he rejected most of the entreaties from the german hierarchy that might have restrained the war factions in both countries (and the rest of the entente and central powers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Imperialists

:/ oh

he had a way with a soundbite, but that faction seems somewhat pandering

no less

https://twitter.com/SussexWildlife/status/550007097522659328

;_; hny

went birdwatching to sevenoaks wildlife reserve yesterday

it went brilliantly. we saw a kingfisher in flight at the very outset, a tremendous flock of peewit, many shovelers, a smattering of snipe…and then, right at the end, as evening fell, we saw two of the best and rarest birds I've ever seen - a lone great white egret, looking for all the world like a vase or a large binbag, suddenly sprouting a neck and flying off enormously - clearly not a (more common) little egret due to its vast size and slow heronish wingbeat - and then, the american white ibis that will have attracted many 'twitchers' (birdwatchers with text alerts) to the reserve - spotted amongst a large gaggle of geese as it pecked around wondering how it ended up in sevenoaks in january away from all the other ibises

basically, two unusual herons. but fret not, for the grey sort were there in force as well. herons are surely among the best of non-passerines

thought about reviving this thread earlier when something that looked like a jay in colour but slightly more hench and closer to a woodpecker in shape flew off of a branch that it was sitting athwart about 1 second after i looked at it

there was a jay/green woodpecker confusion at the reserve yesterday too. later sightings of jay probably confirmed the earlier one.

course you might have seen a waxwing in which case i am slain

shit, that's it

slightly smaller than a starling = typed this almost verbatim earlier

have dreamed of seeing one of those since i was 6 and never have

90% sure that was it

Bohemian waxwings are not brood parasitised by the common cuckoo or its relatives in Eurasia because the cuckoo's young cannot survive on a largely fruit diet. In North America, the waxwing's breeding range has little overlap with brown-headed cowbird, another parasitic species. Nevertheless, eggs of other birds placed in a Bohemian waxwing's nest are always rejected. This suggests that in the past, perhaps 3 million years ago, the ancestral waxwing was a host of a brood parasitic species, and retains the rejection behaviour acquired then.

^^^this stuff is terrifying & fascinating

posted this elsewhere but as an avian avian issue it needs to be here as well

The pollutant methylmercury is a globally distributed neurotoxin and an endocrine system disruptor. In the Everglades ecosystem, human pollution has led to increased concentrations of methylmercury, which have impacted the behaviors of the American white ibis.[67] Hormone levels in males are affected, leading to a decrease in the rates of key courtship behavior, and fewer approaches by females during the mating season.[68] In addition, methylmercury also increased male-male pairing behaviors by 55%. Both the chemically induced "homosexual" behavior and the diminished ability to attract females by males have reduced reproduction rates in affected populations.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/londonbirders/images/0/07/102_-_105_Waxwings.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110115210218

Taken on Drayton Park Road opposite the Arsenal steps. Waxwings in a Rowan tree.

two bodybuilding bros argue about the starling-sized birds in that tree

http://i.imgur.com/eOWL8i1.png

that first one really is peering

now do someone pissing on a molehill next to sunderland's finest

there was one of those regionally relevant interludes in the pittsburgh/baltimore game featuring, appropiately enough, a rather wretched looking raven from the national aviary in pittsburgh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aviary

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/FranklinSpectacleOwlChick.jpg/520px-FranklinSpectacleOwlChick.jpg

Franklin, the spectacled owl chick

bare magnolia room with incongruous transverse branch where Franklin shall die

lmao

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mafsxxMNb41qkgm7po1_500.gif

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4005/4592455560_b04bf29320.jpg

that does not look like a bird species that exists

maybe in delaware?

would not put anything past delaware

An executioner in Mecca, the holy city, took two swings to hack off Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim's head, after she was found guilty of beating the girl and raping her with a broomstick.

From Arabic بِنْت (bínt, “girl, daughter”), used to denote a patronym.

The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side". It is used as a derogatory slang word in the United Kingdom, meaning 'woman' or 'girl'. Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to an affectionate term for a young woman, the latter being more commonly associated with the West Midlands. The term was used in British armed forces and the London area synonymously with bird in its slang usage from at least the 1950s.

Saw some golden eagles passing through Guadalajara today. Or i assume they were golden eagles, the Iberian imperial eagle being much less likely.

http://i.imgur.com/PO2ILrF.jpg

golden oriole, greenfinch, bullfinch, firecrest. maybe a redpoll and a hawfinch. rest have me stumped.

is that an album that many avians will have downloaded

these two may have listened to a couple of tracks from a streaming service at the insistence of ILAFL's finest MENA pugilist, but would need to return to it to have an opinion much beyond 'seems nice, cool forest sounds'

the greenfinch is the only avian i know there

passerines

are they one of the more dominant passerines?

Greenfinches have suffered a terrible decline in the last decade. Used to get them daily in the garden, now cannot remember the last time I even saw one. Chaffinches and goldfinches still going well, in the UK at least.

Finches are amongst the most dominant passerines on the whole though, yes. They're seen as more highly developed than most other families, I think.

I have packed a large bird guide today for educational reasons. I will look up the greenfinch in a bit.

how do u rate dunnocks in the avian firnament

extremely high

they skulk in the literal, glowering sense, as much rodent as bird in behaviour, rarely putting more than four inches between themselves and the ground, even in flight. of course they are beautiful as well with surprisingly rich patterning. another garden standard & yet they never fail to thrill

you are like avian version of the egyptian god who weighed the souls of the dead

a novice

Smales, I. (2006)

Impacts of Avian Collision with Wind Power Turbines: An
Overview of the Modelling of Cumulative Risks Posed by Multiple Wind
Farms

Report for the Department of Environment and Heritage. Pro-
ject No. 5182. Biosis Research Pty Ltd., Melbourne

^rain of blood

went rambling in cassiobury park, watford this morning. not your average park. among others, saw a redwing, fieldfares, treecreepers, goldcrests and a siskin, the latter identified for the first time. heading home now very excited. it is an exceptional park, better maybe than any london park

ilx-searching 'cassiobury' leads to a short & pithy thread in which I posted, under my original nom de plume, perhaps one of my wringer posts. the thread also features peak nordicskilla

wronger, even

but that siskin, right

loves his avians does lj

loves his avians

goldcrests are pretty chill admittedly

http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130129.html

somewhat resembles the inimitable and dearly departed jeff

loved his avians did jeff

loved his avians

In the 1980s, Azzam travelled throughout the Middle East, Europe and North America, including 50 cities in the United States, to raise money and preach about jihad. He inspired young Muslims with stories of miraculous deeds, mujahideen who defeated vast columns of Soviet troops virtually single-handed, who had been run over by tanks but survived, who were shot but unscathed by bullets.[22] Angels were witnessed riding into battle on horseback, and falling bombs were intercepted by birds, which raced ahead of the jets to form a protective canopy over the warriors.[22][23]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgv5ixxgTsQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=152

those avians, my word

a squirrel sitting upon the bough of a tree, eating some unidentified organic matter
on the ground beneath, a robin waited for crumbs to fall

I am not much of a birdwatcher (I like working by the river and seeing ducks and moorhens though) but lately the tree outside my flat window has had a busy gang of chaffinches* pecking all over it for about twenty minutes every day and then disappearing, and they make me very happy

also some yellower, smaller finches, same white λ-shaped flashes on the wings; not sure if siskins or greenfinches or something else entirely

this thread isn't really about birdwatching, but about LJ's foibles w/ re women

if you want to post about birds, that's cool too

They could be goldfinches too! Sarahell don't you feel this thread may have transcended its original purpose fairly quickly?

nakho's robin exuding a corvine cunning there, v heartening

seen so many dunnocks recently, they whirr about slowly like moths

How much of a nightmare is it to own a bird? [Started by Josefa in February 2015, last updated 15 seconds ago by bojaxhiu mother derive (imago) on I Love Everything] 8 new answers

so angry

the avians you own, end up owning you

corvids tend to peck at anything that glints, such as a human eye opening one morning

Tom Jones, when very young, had presented Sophia with a little bird, which he had taken from the nest, had nursed up, and taught to sing.

Of this bird, Sophia, then about thirteen years old, was so extremely fond, that her chief business was to feed and tend it, and her chief pleasure to play with it. By these means little Tommy, for so the bird was called, was become so tame, that it would feed out of the hand of its mistress, would perch upon the finger, and lie contented in her bosom, where it seemed almost sensible of its own happiness; though she always kept a small string about its leg, nor would ever trust it with the liberty of flying away.

One day, when Mr Allworthy and his whole family dined at Mr Western's, Master Blifil, being in the garden with little Sophia, and observing the extreme fondness that she showed for her little bird, desired her to trust it for a moment in his hands. Sophia presently complied with the young gentleman's request, and after some previous caution, delivered him her bird; of which he was no sooner in possession, than he slipt the string from its leg and tossed it into the air.

The foolish animal no sooner perceived itself at liberty, than forgetting all the favours it had received from Sophia, it flew directly from her, and perched on a bough at some distance.

Sophia, seeing her bird gone, screamed out so loud, that Tom Jones, who was at a little distance, immediately ran to her assistance.

He was no sooner informed of what had happened, than he cursed Blifil for a pitiful malicious rascal; and then immediately stripping off his coat he applied himself to climbing the tree to which the bird escaped.

Tom had almost recovered his little namesake, when the branch on which it was perched, and that hung over a canal, broke, and the poor lad plumped over head and ears into the water.

Blifil, tree otm

Blifil was a cunt as any fule kno

Read the first 1/3 of TJ maybe nine or ten years ago, can't recall

the tree was the most otm there

some of these avians they have now

gawjus

The little crew of waterfowl i pass on the way to work has added a very handsome tufted duck to its membership. Not sure if it got separated from a larger migrating flock but it seems to have been adopted.

who is in this crew

do you have names for them

do you imagine their characters & their place within the crew dynamic

Eight to ten ducks, similar number of moorhen. Occasionally a heron will appear but it is not part of the crew.

I don't have names for them but have been thinking more about the dynamics since the tufted duck arrived. Like, can you just blow in from Iceland and be considered one of the boys overnight?

these ducks are mallards right, or is there a red-crested pochard contingent? this is important as pochards are diving ducks, as with tufteds, and so there's a bit of commonality to cling to. yer gadwall/shoveler/mallard dabblers won't mix with what they'd surely regard as little diving inferiors, grebes with airs

Yes, all mallards. idk, they seem to be getting on ok so far, but it's early days.

little diving inferiors, grebes with airs

how ILAFL sees ILE

It might seem that this nameless bird was not in a position to reciprocate Tesla’s affections. And yet who could speak for this pigeon of pure white, with light gray tips on her wings? Who could say what she “felt” for the tall, melancholy, strangely dressed creature who fed, nursed, and caressed her? As with the love between two humans, or between Balthus and his cat Mitsou, or a human and an operating system like Samantha in the 2013 film Her, fully symmetrical affection is not the criterion by which we can determine whether love is in effect. We need not invoke the transmigration of souls to account for the connection or recognition that occurred. Nothing mystical need have taken place; no modern Ovid is necessary to account for the romantic sacrilege. Finitude is what all creatures share. No matter how carefully philosophers try to build a semantic or ontological wall between ourselves and other animals, we all perish. We all die. Humans may anticipate their end with more conscious and unconscious dread than do our fellow animals, but we need only see the survival instinct in action to appreciate that all creatures cling to life with furious intensity when the spark of their inexplicable existence is threatened.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/55/pettman.php

Any ideas as to breed?

http://i.imgur.com/zfaqlYd.jpg?1

Ruddy Shelduck

(an introduced ornamental species like the Mandarin, Ruddy or Red-Crested Pochard)

Excellent. Thank you.

Vowel-averse Swedish techno duo SHXCXCHCXSH return to Avian with a slick follow-up to their 'Strgths' album. 'VVVLLLLVVV' rolls out with sub-aquatic square bass pulses and eerie, almost Drexciyan synth pads, and 'MRRRWRRRDS' locks into heavier, bleeping rolige charged with cavalcade of churning toms and swarming synths. 'MRRRCHNNNN' is roughest of the pack, pumping pneumatic bass and pistoning hi-hats thru the silty murk at 20 knots.

In the psittacosis "parrot fever" panic of 1930, "One city health commissioner urged everyone who owned a parrot to wring its neck. People abandoned their pet parrots on the streets."[13]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32863603/cracker.jpg

grim

was reading about the passenger pigeon extinction recently, this might be the most horrifying extract on all of wikipedia:

One method of capture was to hunt at a nesting colony, particularly during the period of a few days after the adult pigeons abandoned their nestlings but before the nestlings could fly.[64] Some hunters used sticks to poke the nestlings out of the nest, while others shot the bottom of a nest with a blunt arrow to dislodge the pigeon.[64] Others cut down a nesting tree in such a way that when it fell, it would also hit a second nesting tree and dislodge the pigeons within.[64] Still another way was to simply set a nesting tree on fire, cooking the doves or collecting them as they tried to escape.[65][66] An extreme method, practiced only by particularly unscrupulous hunters, was to set fire to the base of a tree nested with pigeons, whereby the adults would free and the juveniles would fall to the ground, bursting open.[3]

There were a wide variety of other methods that were used to capture and kill passenger pigeons. Sulfur was sometimes burned beneath the nesting tree to suffocate the birds, which fell out of the tree in a weakened state.[67] At least one trapper used alcohol-soaked grain as bait to intoxicate the birds and make them easier to kill.[68] Salt was also frequently used as bait, and many trappers set up near salt springs.[69] Stool pigeons, which traditionally were blinded, were also used to attract flocks of pigeons that thought that the stool pigeon had found food.[70]

Low-flying pigeons could be killed by thrown sticks or stones.[68] At one site in Oklahoma, the pigeons leaving their roost every morning flew low enough that the Cherokee could throw clubs into their midst, which caused the lead pigeons to try to turn aside and in the process created a blockade that created a large mass of flying, easily hit pigeons.[68]

Basket used to transport captured passenger pigeons
Nets were propped up to allow passenger pigeons entry, then closed by knocking loose the stick that supported the opening, trapping twenty or more pigeons inside.[71] Tunnel nets were also used to great effect, and one particularly large net was capable of catching 3,500 pigeons at a time.[72] These nets were used by many farmers on their own property as well as by professional trappers.[73]

Passenger pigeons were shot with such ease that many did not consider them to be a game bird, as an amateur hunter could easily bring down six with one shotgun blast; a particularly good shot with both barrels of a shotgun at a roost could kill 61 birds.[74][75] They were frequently shot either in flight during migration or immediately after, when they traditionally perched in dead, exposed trees.[74] The pigeons did prove difficult to shoot head-on, so hunters typically waited for the flocks to pass overhead before shooting them.[76] Trenches were sometimes dug and filled with grain so that a hunter could shoot the pigeons along this trench.[76]

fwiw i still inwardly apologise to woodpigeons, for those bursting to dub me Hypocrite

The vultures (Cathartes urubu, Coragyps atratus foetens) fell upon him, devoured first of all the lizards, and then attacked the body of the unfortunate youth, beginning with his buttocks. Pain restored him to consciousness, and the hero drove off his attackers which, however, had completely gnawed away his hindquarters. Having eaten their fill, the birds were prepared to save his life; taking hold of his belt and the strips of cotton round his arms and legs with their beaks, they lifted him into the air and deposited him gently at the foot of the mountain.

The hero regained consciousness “as if he were awaking from a dream.” He was hungry and ate wild fruits but noticed that since he had no rectum, he was unable to retain the food, which passed through his body without even being digested. The youth was at first nonplussed and then remembered a tale told him by his grandmother, in which the hero solved the same problem by molding for himself an artificial behind out of dough made from pounded tubers.

http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/class_text_056.pdf

Due to their short wings, auks have to flap their wings very quickly in order to fly.

those avians

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/27/lazio-eagle-attacked-crow

eagle mascot is some proper spqr shit

Jesus christ, that picture!

did u see the weasel/woodpecker interface from the uk newsy-wewsies a few weeks ago

was it a super furry weasel?

it was super insofar as it had achieved the power of flight, something few weasels achieve

sounds like a pile of arse

Yeah, that's the biggest surprise of the set so far, and very welcome after the preceding four or five

next week i'll be liveblogging the TV listings for CBS Action

Yes. Although stranger things have happened

http://a54.idata.over-blog.com/3/75/39/26/bataille-1928.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS_hq0MlNwo

The break seems to have done them some good, they sound far more with it in these clips than they do on the 2009-era footage.

http://www.manxbirdphotography.co.uk/Birds/Crows-Shrikes/Chough/slides/chough211012.jpg

lol

Scrub Jay: 87K wav file
Description: A Scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) seemed to be flying towards the person doing the recording as he makes this series of chirps.

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all that rhetoric about unseating the robin but it's nigh on the best one, might even vote for it

blue tit and wren the only acceptable alternatives

voted robin

If you weren't limited to that shortlist, what would be your choice for national bird of Britain?

Imagine btw that this is official and permanent, not that I think this thing is

Pied wagtail would be my choice

Has nobody else voted? :(

was gonna vote Puffin but fuck off giving an email address

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how would you feel if it after a couple of bemused trips to moorlands and wetlands, it became clear that though there was no lack of avians, the entire avian population now compromised only of common or garden british normcore perennials like blackbirds, robins, wood pigeons etc?

lol at the tableau at the top of the gis for wood pigeon by the way

trenchant autocorrects

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Jeronimus_Sweerts_-_flowers_in_a_basket_with_shells_and_a_bird_and_a_bowl_of_fruit.jpg

that is an excellent composition

props on making quite a gaudily-hued psittaciform look so demure

But despite herons being nicknamed the 'shitepoke' in some quarters for their usual reaction to being disturbed, the carefully-maintained shiny black paintwork was not sullied.

there were some odd looking avians in my aunt's ash tree the other day, like ....Parus major....but with longer tails

herons are dorks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFTApZVmOYI
Pres. Maduro: Hugo Chavez came to me in the form of a bird

this is the year I became aware of the crows eating ducklings issue :-(

there is such a thing as a long-tailed tit

the conformation is about right but these avians were of a different complexion

would the hitler party approve or diapprove of these avians and suggest they be expatriated?

they appeared to be autochthonous avians judging by the plumpness of their posteriors and their pale complexion; their frantic attempt to gather food suggested concern about the ongoing attempt to eradicate the british avianry and the british identity through the forced assimilation of different cultures and different avians with our culture and our avians resulting in the bastardization of the genuine diversity that makes up the rich tapestry of aviankind, specifically with reference to the tautly mesomorphic and lurid parakeets whose slender bottoms can often be seen perched athwart the branches of london trees

my best guess is the spotted flycatcher, whose habitual feeding technique is to make a circular sortie from & to the same branch, snaring a winged insect in the interim; this particular avian does prefer to venture abroad in the colder months, however - taking advantage of its aerial facility to ensure that a little piece of britain can forever be found in subsaharan africa, as is right

didnt look like freikorpsers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re5LoYKyGT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3-E3xuQtqI

http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/Germany/Frankfurt/die%20Stadel/Master%20of%20Flemalle/RvWeyden_Triptychon_Verkundigung_Stifter_Heimsuchung_Mitteltafel.jpg

avians-are-smart-deal-with-it: avian-americans & affirmative action

Although much richer in bird species, South America cannot match Australia's large, brainy passerines.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/12/brainy_bird_alex_parrot_dies/

an avian with issues

chillness index of fauna

definitely of the DSM variety

http://www.facebook.com/AvianUK

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bravians

Re: I quit art school

Post by avian-reader » May 17th, 2013, 11:04 am

If all fails of course, you could always go into politics. It worked for Hitler, his paintings are famous now :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDbhUf--Yo

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u shd sample that yelp for something

the nerve on some of these avians now

My neighbor found a Japanese Quail. I believe I ran into someone who said they raised exotic birds at a neighborhood party recently, but didn't catch his name or which house he lived in. I think it was on Van Buren near Euclid. She tried knocking on doors in the area, but no one is home right now. If anyone knows who this might be (or knows of someone who would like to take care of the bird) please let me know. Thanks.

Wittgenstein had taken a particular interest in the different kinds of birds that are to be seen at Killary. (Northern Divers, Cormorants, Curlews, Oyster Catchers, Puffins and Terns are all fairly common along that part of the west Ireland coast.) At first he used to ask Tommy to identify the birds for him. He would describe a bird he had seen, and Tommy would do his best to name it, although, as he freely admits: ‘maybe it wasn’t always the right name I gave him’. Having caught him out a few times, Wittgenstein relied instead on the illustrated handbooks sent to him by Drury.

In order to gain a better view of the sea-birds, Wittgenstein wanted to build a hut on one of the small islands of the Killary coast. He was eventually dissuaded from this by Tommy (whose job it would have been to construct it) on the grounds that a small wooden hut would not be strong enough to withstand the exposed conditions on the island. Instead, Tommy took Wittgenstein out in a rowing-boat; while Tommy rowed, Wittgenstein would either look out for sea-birds or sit silently in contemplation. Occasionally, while out in the boat, they would chat, Wittgenstein reminiscing about his time in Norway, when he would have to row across the fjord to fetch his supplies, and Tommy answering Wittgenstein’s questions about the history of Killary.

Wittgenstein took an interest, too, in the more domestic birds, the robins and chaffinches, that used to come to the cottage in search of crumbs. He would encourage them by leaving food out for them, and eventually they grew so tame that they would come to him at the kitchen window, and eat off his hand. When he left Rosro he gave Tommy some money with which to buy food to provide for the birds, who had now come to expect a daily feed. By the time Tommy next visited the cottage, however, he found the birds’ tameness had been their undoing. While waiting by the window to be fed, they had fallen easy prey to the local cats.

When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn’t singing. Finally someone said to me, ‘All right, don’t call it singing, call it something else’. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

the other day i saw a (living, cephalically intact) owl for the first time, at about 11:30pm on a close, still evening perched in a bough of a tree at the end of the lane next to the house i was visiting

there is a small cluster of trees there adjoining some ancient deciduous woodland and there is very evident strigiform activity, although inverting the victorian childhood norm they prefer to express themselves in song

this one had managed to situate itself just so that it was lit from underneath by an old halogen street lamp, and it stayed there for several minutes, contorting itself once in the manner of a pigeon but otherwise static and silent

in near-silhouette it looked perhaps the size of a large corvid, but somewhat hencher and immeasurably more dignified, until the noise of a car passing in the adjoining road caused it to scarper onto the denser foliage of an adjoining underbranch

then it lay in wait for several minutes more until without warning it suddenly took off, unfurling its considerable wingspan and catapulting forward itself with twitchy explosivity and low stance until it disappeared into the trees at an arc suggestive of lethal intent

...provoking some of your most effulgent prosody this side of 2013, o lambent strigiform! was this one heard as well as seen?

static and silent if the rumours are to be believed

it is possible the ambient gurgle of a seated owl resembles radio static

double glazing would have done for any low-amplitude noises, i daresay the swoop of the creature exploding out of the tree would have been audible outside given its power and the shaking of the branches

what sort of owl do you think it might have been?

so much dignity, that really can't be emphasized enough, if it didn't seem too fond of cars then that was probably bashfulness or haughtiness rather than anything like fear

Given its corvid dimensions, not a little owl. Given nocturnality, probably not a short- or long-eared owl. I would aver tawny, whose dignity will have been manifest.

I'm walking across Clapham Common rn and there is a disappointing lack of owls

Oh, I lie - the short-eared is diurnal but the long-eared not - we have another contender. I would study images of both tawny and long-eared before committing

difficult to get much sense of colour but it looked lightish, did not have long ears, and the wingtips looked a lot like this

http://i.imgur.com/o8e2zl1.jpg

so combined with its size, tawny owl seems right

have you seen one, or other owls?

or maybe, have you seen one of the nocturnal species unexpectedly, since if you are prepared and have the time they are probably not all that difficult to glimpse, but seeing one reasonably well illuminated and not far away was a privilege

I have seen Barn & Little Owls by day, Tawny by night (in Italy rather than Britain though) - the Little Owl had to be pointed out to me roosting in a tree by a confirmed bird maven, it was almost completely camouflaged

effulgent

yes

What kind of bird is(was) this? 47m ago
Lynn Harris from Adams Point
Photo from Lynn Harris
Is it a chicken of some sort? I saw it earlier this morning running around my backyard. When it saw me, it ran under the fence into the neighboring yard. Looks like it came back and, unfortunately, my dog got it. I'm very sorry if this was your pet.

ahaha oh dear

The bird is a Japanees Quail. There is a man who raises them in his back yard. He lives on Van Buren in the apartment behind the house. The house is between Euclid and MacArthur on the south side if the street -- the second house from the corner (not counting the house on the corner that faces Euclid). there are cars parked in front and a porch with steps going up the left side to the porch. The man lives in the building that is in the back yard. They seem to get out often.

http://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/8/1407507298274/Bee-eater-014.jpg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=9e29fcd373005d9b0a8cab1a5308f03c

what the fuck is going on here

your theories please

that dragonfly(?), like all of us, lured by todestrieb

birds & bees
aw romantic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fukKOvTmStE

i don't know why it's swallowing a dragonfly. perhaps it'll die.

Halcyon days of ilxors past

― Treeship, Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:46 (2 years ago)

oh the bee-eater is just tossing the dragonfly into a more swallowable orientation, as evidenced in that video

should have been obvious all along

trís inadvertently reminding me that that i saw a kingfisher for the first time in surrey last week, quite the most distinguished of insular riparian avianry and a worthy rival to its sylvan counterpart of the other month

now the webpages will tell you that it flies very fast very low to the surface of the water, this really doesn't convey quite how fast and low it was travelling, for a second it merely registered as a projectile of unknown quality, its aviformity discernable only subsequent to apprehension of its cobalt/turquoise livery (which would in any case be an apt camouflage for an antiship cruise missile)

then it, presumably it or possibly another one, strafed the opposite bank a few minutes later, this time seeming more orange whereas previously more blue, one would not be apt to think these mere perceptual errata

so without even trying or spending more than a marginal amount of time in proximity to 'nature', the two rarae aves of interest have been sighted, at least other than eagles or hummingbirds or others seldom found in london or the home counties, one is tempted to suggest that such serendipitious sightings are the most valuable

the halcyon is a dichotomous projectile - cobalt above to blend in with the waters, orange below to evade detection coming in with the sun behind it

did i write here about the sighting of a kingfisher within a minute of taking rarissima avis to my favourite nature reserve for the first time? again, it came in fast and low, and at some distance, but it was unmistakeable even for her

and of course you're right - catching a glimpse of the unexpected avian is usually far more rewarding than that sought-out

of course, there's a grey area, when one is walking in the hope of meeting some unusual species, but this hope is secondary to the movement itself. my recent scottish adventures have provided ample satiation of this dual urge, along with an opportunity to practice and perfect the noble art of binocular-enhanced cellphone photography

that post is about yr sex life, yes?

the heheheherican possibiities will have been alluded to

ugh, so puerile

the fact that the phrase "ample satiation of this dual urge" has obvious sexual connotations did not cross your mind at all when you typed it, come on!

classic lj dual urge to tart for hehehehe ripostes and then claim innocence when they arrive

double unentendre

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https://twitter.com/DeBruyneKev/status/598086224419618816

there's a selena gomez joke in there

He also had lunch on 8 April with Georges Auric and Satie as the guest of Poulenc. The latter, a long- time enthusiast of Bartók’s, remembered the froideur of the meeting, for ‘like two birds who do not sing the same tune, Bartók and Satie observed each other with suspicion and maintained an overwhelming silence that Auric and I tried in vain to break. For me it is an extraordinary and symbolic memory.’

love one-off meetings of luminaries that go not quite well

While he was working as an archaeologist in Athens, his first novel Dodo (1893) was published to great success. Thereafter Benson devoted himself to writing, playing sports, watching birds and gadding about.

that's what i call a role model

he wrote 100 books!

the guy n smith of his day

lol those are actually my pursuits

That did not escape my notice although you have a way to go before you catch up with best beloved benson

birders_the_central_park_effect_proves_that_jonathan_franzen_is_the_world_s_most_annoying_bird_watcher_.html

another hellene with bird
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Zeus_Ganymede_Naples.jpg/272px-Zeus_Ganymede_Naples.jpg

Two particularly bad-tempered dachshunds belonging to the German Emperor, named Wadl and Hexl, almost caused an international incident, when they set upon the heir-presumptive Archduke Franz Ferdinand's priceless golden pheasant on a semi-official visit to his country seat, château Konopiště.

discovered the other day that there is only one lady amherst's pheasant left in britain, had assumed there was a small but thriving population. it's now a race against time to see who lives longer: it or people born before 1900. either way a dark shadow will cross my heart, twice

it's very sad and i hope that more are imported and released on the sly by a wealthy avian enthusiast (there's no chance of a reintroduction campaign as it's non-native)

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/celebrity/top-10-21st-century-playboys.html

thought yr interest in game birds was more alimentary in character

i thought it was the avian that had the alimentary relationship with lj?

this anecdote about the golden pheasant sounds unlikely

everything else about franz ferdinand stresses the amount of avi- and indeed other fauna that he killed during maniacal hunting trips, he sounds like the sort who would enjoy watching a pheasant being killed by dachshunds more than anything else

Attempts were made to rebrand the breed, with the American Kennel Club officially renaming it the ‘badger dog’(a literal translation from the German), with others giving it the moniker ‘liberty pup’.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Cher_Ami_cropped.jpg

As Cher Ami tried to fly back home, the Germans saw her rising out of the brush and opened fire. For several moments, Cher Ami flew with bullets zipping through the air all around her.[3] Cher Ami was eventually shot down but managed to take flight again. She arrived back at her loft at division headquarters 25 miles to the rear in just 25 minutes, helping to save the lives of the 194 survivors. In this last mission, Cher Ami delivered the message despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon.

Cher Ami became the hero of the 77th Infantry Division. Army medics worked long and hard to save her life. They were unable to save her leg, so they carved a small wooden one for her. When she recovered enough to travel, the now one-legged bird was put on a boat to the United States, with General John J. Pershing personally seeing Cher Ami off as she departed France.

Awards

Upon return to the United States, Cher Ami became the mascot of the Department of Service[verification needed]. The pigeon was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal with a palm Oak Leaf Cluster for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages in Verdun. She died at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 13, 1919 from the wounds she received in battle and was later inducted into the Racing Pigeon Hall of Fame in 1931. She also received a gold medal from the Organized Bodies of American Racing Pigeon Fanciers in recognition of her extraordinary service during World War I.[4]

amazing

an avian is trying to eat berres from the laurel near the window

its lack of co-ordination and dexterity is quite striing

ive never seen an avian before that looks like it might be at risk of falling to its death, but this one might well do so, despite its apparent capacity for flight

can you narrow it down to a family

spoken like a true Cantabrigian

there is surely only one type of common or garden british avian that shows such limited motor skills, lj

are you saying it was barely athwart the vine

the very same

athwart while also being approximately 40 degrees below horizontal, as if it had heard about low hanging fruit but was unaware that its advantages are absent when that fruit is 10ft in the air

& yet the rousing tale of its kindred Friend puts the columbid family in a whole other light

so foul-smelling and bitter-tasting that the New Guineans nicknamed it the “rubbish bird.

Rubbish Bird

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Slaty backed gull pictured at Rainham Marsh nature reserve, image courtesy of Andy Lawson

If, like me, you have difficulty telling the difference between a black headed gull and a kittiwake, you'll probably not be excited by the slaty backed gull that's returned to our Rainham Marsh reserve in east London for a second visit.

This gull looks like any other to the untrained eye, but the thousands of fans that have descended on Rainham will no doubt beg to differ. Like those who queued and paid a fiver to get in to Steve Akers' house in Chipping Norton to see a turtle dove (albeit an Oriental one), their motivations are different from mine. Their love of birds has led to many papers and radio commentators ridiculing them. How we all love an easy target.

The-Crow:
the chances of a good looking bird in Chipping Norton have always been slim,

but this bird looks like a pidgeon with a racing blue paint job

searches for an empty blue aerosol continue

Rainham area Rilke

tick

yes

https://twitter.com/beamish13/status/311471697620504576

Big Bird.

Late again, us Queenslanders - what are ya gunna do?
St Kilda - warm, dry and hard, Hamill, Nic and the Train could not have it any better. I worry about where Lions goals are going to come from, go the young boys. What's this "old" Lions shit, 11 of the list are under 20!!! Footy makes the big time 4 Triple M are broadcasting all the Lions games this year with Lynch and the Fly in the box. Sell out and live on TV, Sweet

Carlton - like and admire North but the Blues have some momentum and this should see them through

Port Adelaide - I can't believe Freo are favourites with the bookies, this is the team that has won the most games over the past 4 years, have not lost at Subi against Freo, Port all the way.

Melbourne - Emotion yes, but once the game starts its about the here and now, D's too strong

Sydney - Swannies have the edge in talent in every position except the ruck.

West Coast - Just, I think, not to sure about the Crows at this stage and the Eagles on-ball players have now got to be consistant week to week, this is a good place to start.

Geelong - too much talent although I think this will be a close one

Collingwood - but you've got to like what the dogs have tried to do in the off season and with their new coach in charge will try and play tight footy, keeping the scores low, no more kick 130+ points and losing for the dawgs.

Enjoy your looooong weekend everybody, I'm off to Byron Bay after the game tonight - love is a mother-in-law who lives in Byron!!!!

Thanks Chriso - bloody thing just won't accept me at all.

Regards
Big Bird

― Big Bird (Big Bird), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:15 (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trampling all over that sweet avian whimsy

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kingfisher-discovered-and-killed-natural-history-museum-339525

quite the most extinguished of riparian avianry

or just a shy bird

GFOTY ‏@GFOTY 20 Mar 2013

destined 2 b a norf london tennis or kids footy coach's bird. :-/

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jm%2BGvcU3L._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOhsPgexGk

“Let’s go and see what’s happening with the sparrow. We have to wait a while anyway.”
We went. Out the door, in the bushes, we encountered the fa- miliar darkness, the familiar smell, we approached the familiar place, but our gaze beat in vain against the blackness, or rather against a multitude of various blacknesses effacing everything— there were black caverns caving in, next to other holes, spheres, layers, poisoned by semi-existence, and this flowed together into a kind of concoction that had a restraining, opposing effect. I had a flashlight, but I wasn’t free to use it. The sparrow had to be ahead of us, by two paces, we knew where, but we couldn’t reach it with our gaze that was being devoured by something negating it, by darkness. Finally . . . the bird loomed as if it were the center of a configuration, a thickening no bigger than a pear . . .

https://twitter.com/colebunzel/status/664482511343472640

lol

In 1964 Doda made international news, first by dancing topless at the city's Condor Club, then by enhancing her bust from size 34 to 44 through silicone injections. Her breasts became known as Doda's "twin 44s" and "the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco."[5]

"What used to bother me was when I was a kid, people used to take things from me. I used to wear glasses and, I don't believe the guy did this..He took the milk, you always had milk when you was a kid. He took the milk and he took my glasses..and I wanted to get my glasses, but I was scared to fight the guy for some reason..because he talked tough. But something that he did was so cruel. I was devastated, but he took my glasses, fold them up. There was a big truck there; I think it was a lunch truck. He took the gas tank, opened [it] up, and put my glasses in the gas! Dropped it where you put the gas, turned it back, and there was no way I could ever get my glasses. And at that time I couldn't believe someone could be that cruel to do that."

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand - he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard."

lj have you seen this?

http://www.poachedmovie.com

that looks interesting

virunga with fewer guns amirite

One resident took photographs and contacted cemetery managers after witnessing a seagull destroying a soft toy at the graveyard.

“A seagull was standing on the grave and it picked up a brown soft toy, carried it several feet away and attacked it in what seemed to be an aggressive attack,” she said.

“It was holding the toy down with its foot and tearing the stuffing out of it.”

Paignton Cemetery manager Sarah McKerrell added: “Unfortunately, birds are a constant source of problems.”

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/seagulls-vandalising-graves-dead-babies-Devon/story-27709956-detail/story.html

attacked it in what seemed to be an aggressive attack

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of trying to punch Crystal Palace’s bald eagle mascot Kayla during a match at Selhurst Park.

The Croydon Advertiser reported a 34-year-old from Welling was arrested on Friday morning after the incident, which is said to have occurred during a Capital One Cup fixture between Palace and Charlton on 23 September.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/20/crystal-palace-eagle-kayla-charlton-punch

Worse than that, I was in the very front row of the Arf Awake stand and just before kick off the fella was bringing that beautiful Eagle (yes I know its naff, but its not the Eagles fault) around the outside of the pitch, as he came past us this complete bell end aimed a punch at the eagle, now I dont know if he is a member here, and I dont care, but you are a piece of shit.

http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/comment/2262755#Comment_2262755

violence against avians is contemptible no matter whose arm they sit athwart

a child would kick a gull in the street

trust that you will keep the thread updated on how the charlton forums cover the story

sub judice for the moment though -- be sure to let ver plod know if you see anything that might be relevant to the case

if you leave aside your partisan affections for charlton and belenenses and consequent genocidal loathing for crystal palace and benfica, which eagle would you consider more dope in purely avian terms?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G89r9tP1Lt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKzCMIbcYz0

Kayla
A beautiful female who is slightly goofy and really crazy in all areas of her life; never forgotten and always lovable.

The defition of Kayla has changed dramatically over time to rest at the above definition. The word "Kayla" is actually derived from a Greek mythology female deity who would prey on innocent men in the way of a dinner whore. The deity had one fatal weakness: a hysterical male deity by the name of Ross who only had to speak her name to suppress Kayla's alluring powers.
The girl I went out with last night was such a Kayla, but for some reason she hasn't called me back; I even paid for her dinner!
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A girl who isn't the tallest girl around, but doesn't care. She's proud of who she is, no matter what people say about her. Always extremely random and loud, also somewhat clingy, yet still lovable. Loves to smile and laugh and is always energetic. Clumsy, and has a lot of dumb moments. Will always try to find a bright side in the worst of situations. Tries to make friends whenever she gets the chance. Doesn't like to be alone, unless she needs space. Doesn't always like to be in control. Shy, afraid to stand up for self. Lazy, but will do things when necessary. Has an amazing personality. Thought to be a flirt, but actually just likes to be herself. Doesn't care if she's popular or not, or if she's got haters. When she says she loves you, she means it, with everything she's got, even if she can't think of any way to show it. Confusing and hard to understand. But once you prove to her that you should be able to get to know her more, she'll tell you everything without holding back.
Person #1 : hey who's what really hyper person over there?
Person #2 : who, that short girl?
Person #1 : yeah
Person #2 : that's Kayla. How do you NOT know?
Person #1 : damn, she's hot.
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A fucking goddess.
You couldnt describe her with anything but perfect. Beautiful, and smart. Will Succeed above anyone and anything. She is envied by everyone, she will suprise you in anyway.She is amazzing in bed and is Deliciously sexy. She is who you want to be.
I want to be a kayla.
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The most perfect girl in the world. Created by God.FUNNIEST person you will ever meet. She may act like she's 6 but thats the best part.She is lazy but will do anything for you. The most beautiful girl to walk the earth. A person who makes girls cry into their pillows cause they aren't her. Who doesn't love kayla? Coolest and most gangster person you will ever meet. The Most random person in the world. Will dance and sing to any specific music. Mst likely to be blonde. Guys are jealous when someone they know has a girlfriend named kayla. Everything about Kayla makes a person smile.
Dakota: Wow! Look at that girl!
Drake: Must be a Kayla.
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smart in a way, funny (even in the sick humorus way), shy at times, beautiful in her oun way, not skinny but not fat, passion for art & anime, loving, compassionate, cares alot about her family and especialy her friends, she's a bit clingy, a bit obsessive, a promiss keeper, a sholder to cry on, a good friend, she'd take a bulet for anyone even if she didn't know them, she's cry at a funeral even if the person wasn't related or didn't even know her, tend to be very emotional, all in all, she's hard to understand, hard to describe any further, she's not normal, but she's not wierd, she's just kayla
Kayla's hard to understand
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The most crazy and kick ass person to ever walk the face of the earth. She is the most amazing friend. She can be serious when it counts and crazy as hell when needed. She deffinately has her blonde moments.
Wow that friend of mine is so Kayla.
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"Kayla is so pretty!"
"Aw, they're so Kaylas!"
"Their were two Kaylas under the tree!"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0LkEfaCxo

went on a winter stroll with a friend the other day, down the thames bank from richmond to kew bridge, past kew gardens

opposite the latter, in a narrow row of shrubs between path and river, we caught sight of a treecreeper, a wren and two goldcrest not five feet from us

lj

if you help to make 'ill manors'

by

plan b

memetically viable; in theory, in praxis, and in fact

in 2016

Garbage kinder indie tunes in this bar. Broken up by Sam and Dave

then i covenant to normalize birdwatching, ornithology, avifauna fandom, or whatever else this strange love calls itself

on ilx

that which was once spoken of in hushed tones will be rendered as exoteric as clean bandit

"strange love"

yet bereft of its insipidity xp

Oh Al Green, praise the lord, I feel cleansed *flies off dumping an epic liquidy shit*

let's go looting

xp where are you?

There's no way in hell I'm divulging my exact location on this board but let's just say I'm in the far far east bay.

Hitlertown, CA?

as in Antioch or like Stockton?

no

hitlertown

i had a friend once whose mom was the school psychologist for the school where the kids got shot in Stockton

Nickname(s): "California's Sunrise Seaport",[citation needed] "Mudville",[citation needed] "Port City",[citation needed] "Fat City",[citation needed] "Brick City"[citation needed]
Motto: "Hitlertown: The city at the rightmost extreme of the San Francisco Bay Area if looked at on a map!"[1]
Location in San Joaquin County and the state of California
Location in San Joaquin County and the state of California
Hitlertown, California is located in USA
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 37°58′32″N 121°18′03″WCoordinates: 37°58′32″N 121°18′03″W
Country United States
State California
County San Joaquin
Region San Joaquin Valley
Incorporated July 23, 1850[2]

lol

brimstead, give a what3words in your rough location pls

bunch of bullies

Altamont

dope windmills

We couldn't find any results for bunch.of.bullies

i think brimstead is a cool poster

they just put up some absurdly massive new ones, seeing their blades whip around over the horizon is not not vaguely (unintentionally) sinister

brimstead is cool

I appreciate that, but I suspect this board is not sincere

the board is insincere but that was a sincere post

<3 (sincerely)

this board's sincerity is hidden in insincerity

but is that the mondelli + chambord speaking

yes, we are as sincere as imago's love for avians, and for one in particular

cosign re brimstead

:)

only partly the (REDACTED) speaking

it's only 4:35 here ... no redacted yet

phatic anniversarial platitudes are to be denied the pacific coast for another 8 hours, but we may still send them our wellwishes i feel

I do love the whimsical nature of this board (sincerely), it's like the good old 90s internet.

http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/2128338/800full-josie-long.jpg

we now have a slightly stronger (REDACTED) in play, which i suspect to be perhaps yet lesser than wins' (REDACTED), but who knows