The Black-headed gull is the one on the left. English bird names are stupid. 🪶

Charlie Brown discovers The Smiths

DAH DAH DAAAH!

Had a good bird already this weekend - Mediterranean gull. 🪶

Credit @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social

@simonguy.bsky.social saw this and thought of you

Is this thing on

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

Claret everywhere tonight #atmvsbar

The rise of rejection sensitive dysphoria: ‘My chest feels like it’s collapsing’ It makes rejection, teasing or criticism feel unbearable, often prompting a strong physical reaction. Sufferers describe life with a condition that is only just starting to be understood

Gazza being incredibly sensitive to even the smallest perceived slight makes total sense if he's ADHD - rejection sensitive dysphoria
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Beat me to it. As it were.

i respect people who have a five-year plan. i have a five-minute warning

How was the play though

Forgot this 🪶

Even if a samurai's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should still be able to perform one more action with certainty

Willow warbler nicely showing its relatively long primary projection.

It cracks me up that they have about 2mm longer flight feathers than the super similar looking Chiffchaff because Wibwobs cross the Sahara and Chiffers don't.

Willow warbler giving it absolute socks today. 🪶

If you want to feel good on a Monday morning I can recommend having a debilitating all day hangover the Sunday preceding it.

Two wagtails, with their long yellow and black tails, perch on rounded stones at the edge of a river

What to Look for in Spring, 1961
Grey wagtails
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Time crafts a tightly coiled shadow

I talked to an actor tonight and my starting position was it's all just pretending to be someone else isn't it and minutes later I had to change the subject because they were getting close to my unacknowledged self.

Lesser horseshoe bats have fake pelvic nipples that their young grip onto with their teeth when hanging onto their mother in flight.

True story

I had a friend with two rats - Ratatouille and Rataone-y

We need a horizontal thumb for judgement pending

Due to late arrival didn't get down to the town very early & found the selection of postcards not up to the usual standards.

I've already used grykes today and now I'm hearing the word 'drogue'. What an evening #artemisii

I know this probably makes me sound thick but 'nominal' doesn't sound like it means 'good'. #artemisii

If they don't say 'We're in the pipe 5 by 5' what's even the point.