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Itās FLEDGLING BIRD SEASON here in North Americaā¦
ā¦which means itās time for an annual reminder not to kidnap baby birds. Fact: most species of birds have almost no sense of smell. Someone probably told you that if you touch a baby bird, the mother will smell you on it and reject her baby. THAT IS NOT THE CASE.Ā If youāve found a baby bird and you touched it, all is not lost, you can still return it to mom and dad!
Pictured: a young Mourning Dove, after being rescued from the tender mercies of my dog, circa spring 2005. Itās a fledgling! Note how it has most of its feathers, but still looks a bit awkward and scruffy, and, being unable to properly fly, can be caught by an elderly husky or a child.Ā
Help, I found a baby bird on the ground, what do I do???
Hatchlings/Nestlings:Ā IF it is naked or covered in fluffy down and/or pinfeathers and cannot flutter successfully, itās a hatchling or nestling, and has fallen from its nest prematurely. Look for the nest- if you find it and can reach it, return baby and then leave and let the parents return. If you canāt find the nest, or if you find it in pieces on the ground, use a small box/yogurt container lined with dried grass and attach as close as possible to where you found the bird or where you think the nest was. If itās cold, warm it in your hands for a few minutes before putting it back. RETURN BABY!!!!Ā
Fledglings: If you spot a young bird covered with feathers (may have a few patches of fluff) on the ground, itās a fledgling (bird tween) who is currently working on flying 101 homework, which is normal and fine. Hanging out on the ground is part of the learning to fly process! If it looks like itās in immediate danger (i.e. of being run over, stepped on, or eaten by a cat or dog), the best thing you can do for it is to gently scoop it up and place it in the low branches of a nearby tree or shrub, and then LEAVE. The parents are likely nearby watching, and will return once the coast is clear. If it flutter-hops away from you and you canāt catch it, then donāt worry! It just successfully avoided a predator (you), and therefore can probably continue to do so.Ā LEAVE BABY ALONE!!!
DO NOT: Try to feed it, bring it into your house or car, or take it to your local domestic animal vet or shelter.Ā
IF it ISĀ actually for-real injured (bleeding, broken limb, attacked by cat, struck window), you can catch it, put it in a dark cardboard box (with NO food or water, young birds can aspirate easily) and contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation professional, but keep in mind that they get a LOT of fledgling birds, and those birds have a pretty high mortality rate. They may tell you that there is nothing you or they can do but allow nature to take its course, and thatās hard, but important to hear and respect.
itās that time again! all the birding subreddits are filled with people who kidnapped baby birds and I want to believe you can be better than that, tumblr.
me: this is a background character who's in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.
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I swear it was like that
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Les Mis 1863 stage play liveblog continues!
Time for the second act!
Wtf Chenildieu is listed as a character in the second act???? What was even the point of that! Did Charles just mix up Boulatruelle and Chenildieu?
No Mme ThĆ©nardier or Toussaint I notice⦠I wonder if they just werenāt listed or if they really donāt show up?
[liveblogging les mis 1863]
5.7.1. "The Seventh Circle And The Eight Heaven" 5.7.2. "The Obscurities Which A Revelation Can Contain" Also we'll probably talk a little bit about the last book? Since most of us skipped it last week.
This weekās Brick read along poll!
This week we're reading the second half of Grandson and Grandfather, the last four chapters. That's 5.5.5, "Deposit Your Money in Some Forest Rather than with Some Notary", 5.5.6, "Each in his own Way, the Two Old Men do Everything so that Cosette may be Happy", 5.5.7, "The Effects of Dream Mingled with Happiness", and 5.5.8, "Two Men Impossible to Find".
Doodle poll for the book discussion this week
The discussion this week will be held on Friday, 2 PM US Central time (9 PM Central European time).
This week we're reading the second half of Grandson and Grandfather, the last four chapters. That's 5.5.5, "Deposit Your Money in Some Forest Rather than with Some Notary", 5.5.6, "Each in his own Way, the Two Old Men do Everything so that Cosette may be Happy", 5.5.7, "The Effects of Dream Mingled with Happiness", and 5.5.8, "Two Men Impossible to Find".
Doodle poll for the book discussion this week
LesMis Readalong 5.5.2-5.5.4 or 10+ ways Gillenormand continues to be horrible person
As presented by @midautumnnightdream, @aflamethatneverdies and @vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo
1. Using Cosette as bargaining chip to manipulate on Marius feelings
2. He's horrible to his own daughter, like ugh!
3. Continuing to act like everything Marius does and chooses to be is All About Him
4. Hitting on Cosette, such a pervert! 'If I was 15 years younger speech....'
5. Harrasses women around him (Nicolette, the neighbour, etc)
6. That whole speech about women should marry and reproduce and not be spinsters.
7. Takes his emotions, both positive an negative, out on innocent bystanders, especially his employees
8. Casually talks about how Cosette would have died alongside Marius
9. Can't be bothered to remember Valjean's real fake name
10. Still hates on the revolutionaries and Republican ideas, when Marius talks about the French Rev and 93. And is still proud of his royalist roots.
11. Bothers the doctor trying to do his job
12. Makes fun of his grandson's genuine distress. Genuine distress about being at his mercy no less
13. Manipulates situations to make them about him. Marius is seriously injured yet the whole thing has to be about G and his various antics.
14. Presents the treat of meeting with Cosette as a reward for calling him "father" several times, making it very clear that Marius is still in his mercy
15. Is obnoxious about people who carry books around
16. Keeps the fact that Cosette is still in Paris and still wants Marius and that they can get married from Marius for ages until Marius himself brings it up even though he OBVIOUSLY KNOWS that this is upsetting Marius
SUPER LATE POLL; reply ASAP This weeks chapters: 5.5.1: "In Which the Tree With the Zinc Plaster Appears Again" 5.5.2: "Marius, Emerging From Civil War, Makes Ready For Domestic War" 5.5.3: "Marius Attacked" 5.5.4: "Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends By No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered With Something Under His Arm"
Super late! RSVP ASAP
A question: What do you think how Javert taking Marius for dead influenced his decision to bring him home? Itād make it easier for sure, but would he have done it as well if Marius was obviously going to recover? Or does Javert even really think heās dead and not just say so?
This book only has one chapter, so we're doing it in one go (and only the one chapter this week).
This weekās read along poll!
We're holding the group chat this week on Saturday, 4 PM US Central Time (10 PM British Summer Time, 11 PM for Central Europe, etc.)
Les Mis sewer chapters resources vol 1: Maps
This is a bit late, since the readalong has been safely out of the sewers for nearly a week, but I never claimed to be sensible in my timing.
First of all, a map of Valjeanās escape route that originates from Paris sewer museum:
This is helpful insofar as it places Valjean in relation to city itself, but doesnāt help to make any sense of all the side tunnels and whatever else he was supposed to avoid. Fortunately there are more specific maps of the same era:
(Under the cut for labeled map with specific locations mentioned in this chapter: there will be another post with more sewer museum resources.)
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5.2 - Leviathanās bowels
So I definitely went into this with the wrong expectations because in the musical, when the sewer part comes up, Iām always like, āNo. Not that. I canāt deal with that yet. Especially ThĆ©nardiers song. Just take it away from me, please.ā Although recently, this overlaps with having to think about this post. Of course the part on which the Sewers song is based on probably comes up next, but a little break would be fine. What Iām saying is, the musical needs a song about the history of the sewers. I donāt know why but having this at this place in the novel is weirdly calming?? I was still in Distress when I picked up the book again, but thisā¦I could do.
I didnāt expect to get emotional over this nevertheless, though. One second weāre talking about forgotten heroes, then they die, you think youāre reading just a little digression, and suddenly realise youāre reading about a forgotten hero again. Going on a dangerous expedition with the goal of betterment. Did Combeferre know about Bruneseau?
Iām still thinking about the part where Hugo is suddenly critical of the renewed sewer system. Maybe Iām getting it wrong, but to me it sounds like heās basically saying (sorry for the phrasing), āshit stays shit even if you disguise itā. Like itās a call for betterment not stopping when the necessary is done, but to start every work for betterment with a vision that goes beyond that. In a sense that improving the sewer was good, but itās still based on the old (flawed) system (linking back to the first chapter where the idea of a drainage system was described), and that that is what makes it somewhat ādishonestā. Because itās slowing down further improvement, maybe, as the worst flaws have been righted? But wouldnāt that be a very weird thing to say for Hugo considering all the Louis-Philippe talk we have already had? I might read too much into this.
āTo go down into the sewers is to step into the graveā.Ā Is this the real life. Did Hugo just use that saying as the transition back to Jean Valjean and Marius. Do they literally step into the grave and out of it again. Didnāt Jean Valjean get enough of this back in the convent