Post from Lesley the Bird Nerd - YouTube Boreal chickadee sweetness. All photos are of, Floofy, the new male I've been getting to know since a few months ago. 🤎🤍🖤

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BREAKING: The YES vote will WIN Virginia’s redistricting referendum, allowing Democrats to redraw maps ahead of the midterms and potentially flip the state from 6–5 to 10–1 — a four-seat swing that could decide control of Congress.

Virginia voters deciding on redistricting plan that could boost Democrats’ seats in Congress

#VoteYesVirginiaToday

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... if he'd ever seen American woodcock bopping around on the property and where. But I didn't see him.

... to one of the older guys working there a couple of years ago and he stopped everything he was doing to have a look as he'd never seen one there before. So he was interested in more than just waterfowl and upland game species. I was hoping to run into him again this morning and ask ...

As for all of the reported species on my birding app, members and maintenance people can and do go all over the place and I suspect at least some of them are avid birders who pay attention to such things as visiting species while they're out and about, eg, I pointed out a northern mockingbird ...

... it has something to do with habitat improvement --which is something that they do and were, in fact, doing while I was there albeit in a different area. Anyways, fantastic place to visit but just remember it's their place, their rules. Be respectful of both.

... whether there were precipitating events that caused that changes with the new signs. That said, there were also new "no fishing" signs at other spots and I know for a fact people have been caught fishing there before there was more robust signage. So maybe they just got around to it or maybe ...

... is that it's private property. All of it, as far as I know. But they let birders wander around pretty freely except for hunting season where all outside visitors are prohibited and, now, where these new signs are posted. I wasn't able to find any members or maintenance people to inquire ...

Note: the spot where I've found waders/shorebirds before turned out to have new "no trespassing for any reason" signs posted on the trail that goes that way. So, although I didn't see any stilts or godwits or yellowlegs, etc, they still might have been around. The thing about the Gun Club ...

Pink cherry blossoms in a ball formation.

Pompom cherry blossoms in Vancouver. I always wonder why they grow that way. PS Apple tree behind in case you were wondering what the white blossoms were.

The ol' double dog dare.

Well, if i gave Donald anything other than an A, he would summon me because I would've hurt his self-image.

Did I get that right?

Screenshot of a tweet by Democrats Deliver (@DemzDeliver) highlighting that Minnesota now has the third lowest poverty rate in the nation, 45% lower than West Virginia. The post includes a split image of Governor Tim Walz smiling outdoors and an aerial view of the Minneapolis skyline along a river.

Blue governing leads the way.

The Minnesotans Who Wanted to Be in “Purple Rain” In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for Prince’s new movie.

In 1983, the photographer Tom Arndt heard about something interesting happening in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn: a casting call for Prince’s new movie. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

www.mediaite.com SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Craters to 33% in New AP Poll, Whopping 67% Disapprove

SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Craters to 33% in New AP Poll, Whopping 67% Disapprove #Mediaite

What's the word on the West Bank? Does it look anything like the old West Bank? How about Dinkytown?

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

Those both sound like things I'd like to do. Falwell Hall sounds familiar. is that where the German department is too?

Lots of pelicans here today.

There are lots of cool perspectives but it's tough finding places to take pictures right now.

What's the word on Schrödinger's Strait? Still caught in the observer's paradox. Neither open nor closed and both open and closed?

photo of a brewer's blackbird on a diagonal branch. he is in profile facing left and has a very large (2 inch at least) stonefly in his beak.

#BirdOfTheDay is Mr. Brewer's Blackbird with a Salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica) (AKA Giant Stonefy) NOM!

I can't find a pic right now, but sometimes the Brewer's will roll the salmonfly in birdseed for extra cronch!

#birds #becurious

Sketch of a female Cooper's Hawk made with a bic pen.

Sketch of a female Cooper's Hawk

Bic pen on paper
5x6

#art #birds #nature #sciart

Virginia: Vote YES Tomorrow Virginia's Redistricting Referendum and Why I'm Passionately In Support

Trump ordered Texas to redraw its maps mid-cycle — not because the census required it, but because they know they can't win a fair fight in 2026.

Virginia votes tomorrow. Matching the GOP isn't enough —
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If you live in Virginia, tomorrow you have a huge opportunity to make it clear to the GOP that if they want to win, it won’t be by changing the rules and redrawing maps. At least, not without a fight. Vote YES on the redistricting vote, and push back!