http://i.imgur.com/eOWL8i1.png
― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
that first one really is peering
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
now do someone pissing on a molehill next to sunderland's finest
― imago, Monday, 5 January 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/FranklinSpectacleOwlChick.jpg/520px-FranklinSpectacleOwlChick.jpg
Franklin, the spectacled owl chick
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
bare magnolia room with incongruous transverse branch where Franklin shall die
― London's Left-Wing Utopian Non-League Ultras Are Reclaiming Football (imago), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mafsxxMNb41qkgm7po1_500.gif
― Stanić Ritual Abuse (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4005/4592455560_b04bf29320.jpg
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:17 (nine years ago) link
that does not look like a bird species that exists
― rae sredrum (imago), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
maybe in delaware?
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:25 (nine years ago) link
would not put anything past delaware
― rae sredrum (imago), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 08:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PO2ILrF.jpg
golden oriole, greenfinch, bullfinch, firecrest. maybe a redpoll and a hawfinch. rest have me stumped.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
is that an album that many avians will have downloaded
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
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'
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
the greenfinch is the only avian i know there
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
passerines
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
are they one of the more dominant passerines?
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
I have packed a large bird guide today for educational reasons. I will look up the greenfinch in a bit.
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
how do u rate dunnocks in the avian firnament
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
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
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
you are like avian version of the egyptian god who weighed the souls of the dead
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
a novice
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Smales, I. (2006)
Impacts of Avian Collision with Wind Power Turbines: AnOverview of the Modelling of Cumulative Risks Posed by Multiple WindFarms
Report for the Department of Environment and Heritage. Pro-ject No. 5182. Biosis Research Pty Ltd., Melbourne
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
^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
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
wronger, even
but that siskin, right
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
loves his avians does lj
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
loves his avians
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
goldcrests are pretty chill admittedly
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130129.html
somewhat resembles the inimitable and dearly departed jeff
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:14 (nine years ago) link
loved his avians did jeff
loved his avians
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
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]
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgv5ixxgTsQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=152
those avians, my word
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
a squirrel sitting upon the bough of a tree, eating some unidentified organic matteron the ground beneath, a robin waited for crumbs to fall
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Friday, 20 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
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
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:20 (nine years ago) link
this thread isn't really about birdwatching, but about LJ's foibles w/ re women
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
if you want to post about birds, that's cool too
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 20 February 2015 09:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Friday, 20 February 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
seen so many dunnocks recently, they whirr about slowly like moths
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Friday, 20 February 2015 11:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:41 (nine years ago) link
so angry
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:42 (nine years ago) link
the avians you own, end up owning you
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
corvids tend to peck at anything that glints, such as a human eye opening one morning
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:47 (nine years ago) link
Blifil, tree otm
― bojaxhiu mother derive (imago), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link