Dendroica

Ominous looming t-tap t-tap tap tap t-tap...

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity A Hard SF anthology of stories involving tea or coffee, stars, and gravity.

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... is 20 backers away from our second Stretch Goal to bring the TOC budget to 24 worthy authors. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky #tea #coffee

Wait, what do you mean by carat here? Need context.

Vi este en Montevideo ayer. T. recurvata?

Is that the Koll Center flock of Mallards? Hi guys!

On a scale from not-dinosaur to very-dinosaur, this Giant Wood-Rail ranks pretty high! It is standing in the middle of a brown grassy lawn, appearing perplexed by a couple of orange chips someone has dropped.

Dinosaur contemplating tortilla chips.🪶

What a wonderful moment!Thank you for sharing this experience.

Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity A Hard SF anthology of stories involving tea or coffee, stars, and gravity.

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...) - is so very close to funding the first Stretch Goal to add 4-6 more authors. Currently 98% to SG1 ($153 needed) & 86% to SG2. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Heads

Twice.

@singingtotigers.bsky.social Well deserved!

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - eBird Large flycatcher with an extremely long, forked tail. Pale gray overall with darker wings and a salmon-colored wash on the belly. In flight, look for brighter salmon underwings. Juveniles are duller and shorter-tailed than adults, but still distinctive. Breeds in open country of Texas and neighboring states, where it is often seen on fenceposts and utility wires. Winters mainly on the Pacific coast of Mexico and Central America, where it sometimes gathers in large flocks. Might be confused with Fork-tailed Flycatcher in winter range, but note paler plumage with salmon underwings.

ebird.org/species/sctfly

Flying fox and fruit bat are the same mammal

Escape Pod 858: Pen Pal (Part 1 of 2) December Third, 1996 Meliari Thulissia General Delivery Tharsis Station Dear Meliari, Hello!! My name is Mary and I am nine years old. I got your name for a pen pal and they said you were the first…

"However, in confidence between us I feel I should make you aware that parthenogenesis is not unknown."
One of several from
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First glance, lasagna gone weird.

Impressive flare!

La Befana by Gene Wolfe. Still remember reading it for the first time and hitting that last sentence.

The dark
Fire will not avail you.
Udûn's
Flame from down below.
Although it's been said
Many times, many ways,
You shall not pass.
Dude, no.

"T.T. is Five"...

me too... I remember at three years old visiting a neighbor's house and seeing a Pileated Woodpecker land on a tree right outside their kitchen window! On the other hand, drawing is not my forte though

Front cover of the book Our Dust Earth - giganto post-apocalyptic octopus out for a stroll in a murky industrial lanscape.

Eligibility post! This year my story "House Brilliant" appeared in the far-future SF anthology Our Dust Earth from @aanpress.bsky.social
Under a bloated dying sun, descendants of humanity find that a fragment of our own time endures.. Capturing four posthuman tongues in English for this was so fun!

These maps show changes in fertility rates but do not indicate that "population has been dropping around the world." A better map of current trend is at upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co.... There are very few countries that show substantially negative population trends.

Yes! And downstream of the plunge pool is also a great spot to watch American Dippers.

~~ "I was apprehensive after learning the last person to trek with GS went back - or more accurately, _turned_ back - when his boots were full of blood.

GS shrugged. 'That chap was out of shape.'"

Full respect to George Schaller as a legit old school wild man. Vividly remember Peter Matthiessen's description of trekking with "GS" in the Himalayas in The Snow Leopard.

Yes, I just learned about this yesterday as well! I had also assumed the arms were revolving in concert with the stellar orbits, but no! The. wikipedia article for Density Wave Theory gives a good explanation with video animations of the density waves

Thermoluminescence dating if the sample includes crystalline materials?

The monument constructed by Isetnofret, Merenptah's daughter, fell last night. I was asleep and heard nothing, but from the fallen limbs and shattered visage, there must have been a terrible crashing. By the time I was awake there was nothing to hear but the wind upon the lone and level sands.