what kind of bird are you?

Robin | any | 20s | a space and a place for birdposting, among other things :)

[fullofbugs84uy894ujui9]

reminder that this blog, while not politically focused, supports BLM. bootlickers and racists aren’t welcome here, and never will be.

[mashallah]

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[julianplum]

🪻🌼🐝🪶🌿💕 // early establishers // spread from Gardening for Biodiversity by the Wild Seed Project // gouache on hot press paper

[valhelos]

[romanceyourdemons]

when the blackberry bushes have thorns to discourage mammals from monopolizing the consumption of their fruits and encourage birds to spread their seeds but they don’t know that the mammal in question is ME #notdiscouraged

[romanceyourdemons]

#ow

[romanceyourdemons]

#stuck

[guilhernunes]

friends playing RPG, the dog thinks he's crushing it, but the master cat has other plans

[shithowdy]

today i took the worst photo of a loon one can possibly take while remaining identifiably a loon

[shithowdy]

loon :)

[shithowdy]

i painted my loon :)

[polkadotmotmot]

Alice MacDonald - Messenger, 2026 - Distemper and collaged fabrics on hessian

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[dateamonster]

look i WISH more horror movies were just the directors thinly disguised fetish. instead we got all these horror movies that are just undisguised reflections of culturally hegemonic values and anxieties. like if we got some weird fetishes up in here it would probably add some variety thats all im saying.

[plantnerderyallday]

The more time I spend around my new coworker, the more I understand about why plant id books and foraging resources are written the way they are.

For context, my mom is the one who taught me to forage, and it was and is just part of life. She regularly added foraged foods to our everyday meals. I knew how to identify huckleberry before I learned the alphabet. Foraging was just another part of feeding ourselves, along with gardening, raising chickens, and going to the store. And the firmest rule was that you didn't eat a plant unless you were willing to bet your life on it being what you thought it was.

So to watch my coworker see a berry, say 'strawberry!' and then pick it and have it three quarters of the way to his mouth before I could point out that it was actually an unripe blackberry...

Well, it was a striking moment. Because while that particular mix up would not actually hurt you, the lack of paying attention it takes to mistake an unripe blackberry for a strawberry and the lack of caution it takes to put a plant that you've hardly looked at into your mouth- no wonder some people think bittersweet nightshade is a look alike to red huckleberry!

And it explains a lot about how secretive most people are about their foraging spots. If you don't care enough about your own health and well-being to actually look at the plant you're eating, how could I trust you to care for the health and well-being of the plants you want to forage and the ecosystems you want to forage from? I want my foraging spots to be better off for my interactions with them. I want to be able to go back to the same spots year after year and decade after decade and see the native plants thriving, the invasive species losing ground, and the biodiversity increasing.

Can I trust you to help with that, if you won't even look at the berry before you pick it?

[free-my-girl-tourney]

also Shallan (stormlight archive) propaganda! my girl(s)! the ire she attracts is so... tired

shallan davar propaganda!

[todaysbird]

I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.

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Link to donate

[snowy-equinox]

This is one of the few rehabilitation centers that take songbirds in South Carolina. They're a huge part of my workplace's network, and if they close songbirds WILL take a huge hit in this state. They're already declining at a terrible rate. Please consider sharing & giving, if you can.

[urgetocreate]

Andrew Gifford, Hawthorn Blossom in Late Sunlight, 2021, Oil on canvas, 2021

[snoopylovessoup]

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas 30*40 cm “Summer Sketch No. 5”