violets from the dead land!

♠️ aroace ▪︎ they/them ▪︎ bird nerd ▪︎ adult ▪︎ never spoiler tagged for anything so watch out for that ▪︎ fallen london sideblog -> @the-ardent-dilettante

[kingcatnine]

wildlife take care not to stand still for too long lest you end up one of my inaturalist observations

[bugsbeingotherbugs]

Ant-mimic sac spider (Peng birmanicus)

[©yejielin]

[curiositysavesthecat]

If you could restart your life from age 15 with all the knowledge you possessed now, so that you COULD go back and fix all your regrets/mistakes, would you do it?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

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[proximally]

birding is so hard when you don't have the vocabulary. trying to explain how to identify calls and the best i can manage is things like "well, greenfinches are being squeezed" "goldfinches are wet" "chiffchaffs are toddlers on a piano" "corn buntings are scrabbling desperately up a slide and not doing well"

[ramshacklefey]

All of these are more informative to me – a not-bird-knower – than a more technically correct description would be.

[proximally]

PROX'S GUIDE TO COMMON (or not) UK BIRDS (in addition to the above):

blue tit: sad

stock dove: woo-ooOOT woo-ooOOT woo-ooOOT

wood pigeon: david tennant. (i DOONT want to go. i DOOONT want to go.)

collared dove: least enthusiastic football fan in the world ([dutifully] uNIted uNIted)

starling: aliens are attacking

lapwing: robots are attacking

mediterranean gull: like, nya :3

curlew: please listen to "numinous" by cosmo sheldrake. you will not forget this call again

pheasant: trying to open a metal door but there's something stuck underneath scraping the concrete and it WON'T CLOSE PROPERLY

swift: world's tiniest WEEEEEEEEE

barn swallow: office gossip

house martin: your least favourite whiteboard pen

ringnecked parakeet: baby's first laser pistol

green woodpecker: pov you just told a GREAT joke

magpie: it's a magpie

jay: it's a parrot

rook: it's a small dog with a smoking habit

jackdaw: [disapproving] hey.

song thrush: adhd

bearded reedling: elastic band on metal pole. ping. ping.

cetti's warbler: cetti's warbler.

yellowhammer: doing long jump

reed bunting: has a clipboard. is taking notes

skylark: a beautiful burbling stream through a wildflower meadow, the sun is shining and warm, the breeze is gentle, you are flourishing and unemployed,

[residentevildash-moved]

you can hardly tell i had unmedicated adhd in middle school

[etcstims]

GIANT WEEVIL | source

[sweatermuppet]

closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

[wetdirtguy]

Me spending time with people: joy abounds, we are all connected and there is hope!

Me 1 day later: I need to be left alone to gather the pieces of Me together

Me 2 days later: there is something very rotten at my core and I will almost certainly die unloved

[seasideseals]

for the first time in history, the ross seal has been photographed underwater ! all creds to justin hofman and ayla townsend ! <3

[limulusamebocytelysate]

@eddieintheocean

[limulusamebocytelysate]

Did you know that if you're married in the UK you need spousal permission to legally change your name

[limulusamebocytelysate]

You also need someone who's known you for ten years.

[limulusamebocytelysate]

WHO'S KNOWN YOU FOR TEN YEARS AND OWNS A HOUSE OR PAYS RENT AND ISN'T RELATED TO YOU

[limulusamebocytelysate]

Did you know that if you're married in the UK you need spousal permission to legally change your name

[limulusamebocytelysate]

You also need someone who's known you for ten years.

[limulusamebocytelysate]

Did you know that if you're married in the UK you need spousal permission to legally change your name

[cowboyhatesithere]

Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

[addicted2wasps]

Sphex ichneumoneus! 😍😍😍😍 Such a beautie. Another wasp that I need to draw!

[besidethepath]

The Black-headed Gulls – An Afternoon at the North Sea, part 3 (May 31, 2025). There was a lot of activity on the breeding raft. I didn't understand all the discussions, but a lot of it was about food (quantity, quality, speed of delivery, etc.). The chicks weren't always satisfied.

[michaelnordeman]

Common Long-horned Bee/Eucera longicornis/långhornsbi, Spiny Mason Wasp/Odynerus spinipes/mörk lergeting, Early Bumblebee/Bombus pratorum/ängshumla, and Western Honey Bee/Apis mellifera/honungsbi. Värmland, Sweden (12 June 2021).

[mlleclaudine]

from India Rose Crawford's Instagram: Frog bakes a loaf of bread 🍞🐸