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Maybe b/c it would scare the children? (I was taken aback.)

Sometimes, when I read about bird and animal observations in other places of the world, I start to feel like my local area is a lot less 'exciting' or 'rich' in wildlife, and in general quite 'boring', which is not made better by the fact that almost nobody outside of my country knows about its existence. So, I decided to compile some of our local Southern Ural birds as a little tribute. I've seen seven of these, and five were painted from my own photos :)

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One of my absolute favorite local birds, the Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)! These guys are very abundant here, and I love their personality and little songs. Very often on my walks in Spring, a bluethroat male will jump out of the bush, puff up its beautiful chest and sing as loud as he can, sometimes using bits and bobs from other birds' songs.

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during pride month??????

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Great news: after being banned from Night Power Tools, my wife has taken up whittling and is making me a spoon

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Finished spoon!

mathematikerin-freyja

I think it would be really wonderful if seagulls were constructed more like bottles with a mystery inside. What I'm imagining is that were you to catch one, you could then unscrew its face and there would be a glowing gem nestled in some sort of gilded socket. The Core of the Gull so to speak. Then you could swap that around with other seagulls, and after screwing the faces back on they would fly off as if nothing happened. Hm... Is this too esoteric, or do some of you see what I am getting at?

extratragic

i stole this from twitter

pukicho

I'm happy I got to see lightning for the first time in a long time.

prokopetz

"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.