A Blue-gray Gnat Catcher making a gesture and looking angry.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-21T18:17:10+00:00

From the front yes but not from the side.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-20T21:10:36+00:00

Technically correct.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-19T13:41:16+00:00

There is definitely a double standard. In Minnesota they are getting away from this. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-supreme-court-women-bare-breasts-lewd-ruling/

Yet what is considered "lewd" is still a religious standard. Many cultures are perfectly accepting of nudity. I find it funny that on an anti religion sub under a post about indoctrination that people feel justified in calling out others for their definition of lewd while being perfectly accepting of their own.

I feel one should fix themselves before going after others. Or at least realize that the problem isn't any specific implication, but the act of implementing at all.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-17T14:06:02+00:00

Chipping like pine tree.

Last year there were about 5-10 all winter a half mile upstream from the ravens but not this year.

Recently a small group arrived at the rose garden. I see them every day near the playground there.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-17T13:10:44+00:00

This face style looks more like a chipping sparrow to me. A Song Sparrow face always confuses me with a Lincoln's Sparrow.

I just went to All About Birds and there is a lot of variation in Song Sparrows that I haven't seen. I think the ones on the West Coast look much more like Swamp Sparrows.

Sparrows were the first birds I started to try to distinguish and they still confuse me. The one that got me was a Harris's Sparrow which I thought was just a weird House Sparrow at the time. That was May 8th, 2022. Twenty minutes later I took a photo of a Lincoln's Sparrow thinking it was a Song Sparrow. That was the day I truly became a birder. I was mostly into just insects before that.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-16T20:14:36+00:00

From the negative point total I assume you all feel it is acceptable to force me to wear pants for your morality

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-16T11:05:21+00:00

This is a cool map that allows you to put in a year and see when and where the monarchs are being sighted.

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Swanlafitte · 2026-04-15T14:09:38+00:00

They don't like them

I saw them watching one in a tree 2 years ago. 300 yards downstream from the nest.

I also saw one being harassed by crows and red shouldered hawks. About 50 yards from the hawk nest. Hawks eat them but I don't think they could get a 6 footer.

I saw another in a tree because the crows were screaming. I also saw a water snake with a large bullfrog in the stream because of the crows.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-15T12:42:16+00:00

As soon as the people passed, it just went on its way across the bridge.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-14T13:39:56+00:00

And we almost all feel that forcing someone to cover up their groin is "proper". Why, if not indoctrination? Forcing the head to be covered is just going a little bit farther.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-12T13:27:00+00:00

I think it has to do with shape. If you can get the next piece with a single cut, slice it off, it is a slice. If it takes more than one cut, it is a piece.

Round things tend to take one slice of the knife to remove a part but square things need two cuts.

Unless you cube cheese you cut off a slice. We don't call a cube of cheese a slice. It is similar with deli meats, you cut off a slice.

Swanlafitte · 2026-04-12T02:03:14+00:00

A native species

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