✨Daisy Ducks✨

I make ducks and poor life choices

[herpsandbirds]

American Comb Duck (Sarkidiornis sylvicola), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Peru

photograph by Miguel José Morán Morán

[daisyduccs]

I never post my ducks here anymore but I am stupid proud of my Pomni duck and the last episode was Fucking Peak so I think Tumblr can have a little treat

[kedreeva]

Wait wait wait. To tell apart the different lines of the chicks (I assume), you put the eggs in little mesh baggies?! Like for fruit???!!!! Please please please post a picture of the bags of freshly picked quail chicks, that is a very funny mental image and I’d like to see it for real

Freshly peeled quails

(also, again, they are way more comfy and relaxed in the bags than out of them. They just snooze quietly until they are gently poured forth into a tagging bin for me to band and put in the brooder)

[zyzoda]

crabs are literally being forcefemmed by barnacles every day and no one ever talks about it

[zyzoda]

sacculina makes me go a little insane honestly and not even for strictly transgenderly reasons... its life cycle involves attaching itself to a crab, producing eggs in place of that crab's eggs, and using the female's natural "egg dispersal" technique to, well, disperse its own eggs; but what do they do if they attach to a male host? give up and die? of course not, they simply instigate a hormone cascade that fundamentally changes the crab forever. easy!

and this is just what being an arthropod is like most of the time. bugs get parasitized like CRAZY. theyre the worlds most hijackable machines and you better believe the biosphere is taking advantage of that fact

[zyzoda]

and, sure, you know what, its yuri. fuck it. theyre raising kids together. this is the ideal liberal family: barnacle mother, absentee barnacle father, and beautiful transgender crab mother

[caats]

[c3rvida3]

Walking around my neighborhood wearing my sick as fuck custom T-shirt that says "I STEAL EVERY FRIENDLY CAT I MEET WITH NO REMORSE I DO IT ALL THE TIME DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK I BEEN HERE FOR YEARS KEEP THAT BEAST ENCLOSED LEST YE FACE MY LIGHTNING CAT GRASP" and smiling politely while my neighbors' indoor-outdoor cats gently trot down the sidewalk towards me as the neighbors themselves read my shirt with a growing sense of panic.

[c3rvida3]

Unfollow me for cat theft all you want. You'll never catch me and you'll never stop me. Those things are this season's must-have lipgloss in an understaffed Sephora, and baby? I'm a middle-class teenage girl who's not getting enough attention at home...

[c3rvida3]

People in the notes keep saying, "This is just another reason you should keep your cats inside," and I know they just mean the fact that someone in general could steal them, but I like to think they all mean that you gotta watch out for me specifically. Because you do. I'm everywhere. And I'm fast.

[lostinthelegs]

Sometimes people accuse my chickens of being generated images and sometimes I think they are too

[tofublock]

a slumber i never wish to awaken from

available as art print for those who sign-up on patreon

[knighthearts]

i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

[knighthearts]

for those of u asking for the vid!

[sludgewizard666]

if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

[catgirlforeskin]

casting these before getting out of bed like buff spells before a raid boss

[dipperthedestructor]

im the prettiest canary in this mine

[dipperthedestructor]

what the fuck is that smell

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[alex51324]

I just looked, and there are 170 other people on there, also checking to see if there are fish waiting.

Please remember, if ever you are tempted to make a sweeping statement about human nature, that on this night in March, 2024, while war rages, there are 171 of us looking to see if a fish needs us to ring a doorbell.

Plenty else is going on, but also that.

(PS, the site says that the busiest times for fish are sunrise and sunset, which for now are at about 6:30, AM and PM, local time. Local time in Utrecht is 1 hour ahead of GMT, 5 hours ahead of EST, if that helps. I'm going to try to remember to check back again around 2 AM my time, when it will be morning for the fish!)

[jethroq]

bitches will say they got into clown college on their own merit and like their parents facepaints aren’t on eggshells in the lobby of the new library

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen

I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside

Open concept kitchen, nice, nice

Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.

That bathroom could use an update

Need to change out that curtain

Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!

Oh

[ducissatenebrarum]

Marble and brass bird sarcophagus from 1874 made for a pet bird named “Wee Wee”! WW’s shrouded body is still inside, in a little drawer that slides out.

[diamondringsandgutterbones]

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

Last time a king had a reign that short it ended with Ireland ditching the whole monarchy thing.

Today, Northern Ireland got a pro-reunification First Minister for the first time.

Maybe Data was right about the Irish Reunification of 2024?

[steepedfoxglovetea]

[highdefinitions]

hozier (2014) being hozier’s debut album is fucking nuts like… take me to church?? from eden?? work song?? like real people do?? it will come back?? foreigner’s god?? cherry wine?? SEDATED?? what the fuck??

[shamebats]

#he fucking walked in and said hey im andrew i was on the wiggles once. have you ever fucked god

@prompeachy your tag, it killed me dead