Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SplashingAround, any bird making a splash. This hummingbird was flitting through the sprinkler spray. #birds

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#birdoftheday alt theme is #whattheflock - at least three of the same bird. Canada geese, young and old. #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe, birds who have food in their beaks. Canada geese partaking of a family meal. #birds

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Thinking of Stuart McLean today, born April 19, 1948 💜

For so many of us, The Vinyl Cafe was just… there. Warm, funny, human.

Got a favourite story or memory? Share it. Let’s remember him together 🍁

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD, this is an Anna's hummingbird. #birds

Tributes pour in from across the globe for Scotland's only ferry dog Spot was a celebrated border collie known for assisting with mooring ropes and welcoming visitors on the historic turntable ferry between Glenelg…

AHOY THERE!

SPOT, SCOTLANDS LAST WORKING FERRY DOG, HAS DIED.

EIGHT BELLS FOR SPOT. MAY YOU FETCH AND ROAM IN FAIR WINDS.

For #birdoftheday Alt Theme is #Finches, any Finch will do. Pine siskins are finches. #birds #smallbirdSaturday

Even Dunning-Kruger could not have possibly predicted the extent to which this effect would impact the western world. It's interesting to note it's less prevalent in cultures that encourage humility and self-criticism
over hubris.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #FeederFriends birds you might see at your feeder. These are an Anna's hummingbird and a red-breasted nuthatch.

Today’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #HeadShots, any head shot will do. Small birds like this dark-eyed junco are practically all head. #birds

#BirdoftheDay is #LeafandLight. This is a brahminy kite (I think) in Hervey Bay, Australia. Pretty sure those are eucalyptus leaves. #Birds

#birdoftheday alt theme is #urban. This is a noisy miner we saw in Brisbane, on our trip to Australia in 2015. I just realized it fits the #jklmnop theme too.

Today’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #JKLMNOP , any bird that has any of these letters at the beginning of their first or second names; my submissions are a pileated woodpecker and dark-eyed junco.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongNecks. I'll add another great blue heron and cormorants. #birds

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme is #Grass, any bird standing on Grass. #birds Here are a spotted towhee and a Canada goose couple.

Time zone? It's April 9th here for another hour.

One of the #BirdOfTheDay themes is #NaturalPerch. Here's a song sparrow.

Today, the emperor penguin has moved from Near Threatened to Endangered on the @sscmarine.bsky.social IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

🛰️ Satellite images suggest that the population declined by 10% between 2009 and 2018 alone, equating to more than 20,000 adult penguins.

Thread:

⚡ We also know that emperors faced challenging record low sea ice conditions in 2022–2024.

Changes in sea-ice caused by climate change is the primary driver behind the loss of the emperor penguin. The projections are for the population to halve by the 2080s.

We live in a remote island near Antarctica and even we are concerned that the blustery orange idiot is going to get us killed.

Both accurate and a nice pun:

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Ahead of Trump's speech tonight, it wouldn't hurt for Canada and Europe to recall the words of Pierre Trudeau when he heard that Nixon had called him an asshole:

"I've been called worse things by better people."

Indeed I think Canada has been embodying this Philosophy for over a year now.

“It is fascinating to watch another nation’s leader use the drunken boxing technique to solve problems they created” -PM Maccormicki

Declare a fake victory, withdraw, and use the whole thing as an excuse to withdraw from NATO