I don’t have any experience with it, but would fiver be along the lines of what you’re looking for?

Gotta catch em owl! 🦉🔴

Their grumpy but adorable little faces make all this heat and humidity feel just tolerable enough!

I’m hoping they made a little less mess for me than last week though. 🥵💩

“Grandma, what beautiful owls you have!”

Aww, Zeus was legendary. He’s been an Internet sensation for over a decade, and he probably will be for a long time.

He’s sadly no longer with us as of about a month ago. I ran a tribute on his life with his backstory, about a dozen photos, and a story of burrowing owls with a somewhat similar looking eye condition.

He got to live a super rich life for an owl with a serious medical condition, and he was really loved by his staff and people around the world from his Internet fame.

It’d say the same of us! 😉

Wood owls have a wonderful plushy type body shape. They also come in a great range of colors!

Yes, that tensed up facial disc looks amazing!

They have voluntary muscle control over all their feathers, and can tweak their position and rigidity to pick up different frequencies of sound and pinpoint the source location. Amazing stuff!

I feel it’s a look of complete dedication to the action it’s about to perform. One can see its full mind and body working in perfect synchronicity.

The eyes are on its goal. The facial ring is tense to collect every piece of sonic data. We know that a silent dive is about to occur and the talons will swing forward and load themselves with shocking energy to snap closed on impact.

There’s no maliciousness or ego. The owl is just doing the job it was made to do. The quirky moments that make us adore the owls are nowhere to be seen right now. We are only left with an untamed wild instinct that makes us respect them.

While we share the same physical world, moments like this show us we don’t really live in the same reality anymore as these creatures like we once did, thousands of years ago. Seeing moments like this reminds us of the gap between us and the wild we have left, and the duality we have built between civilization and the primal.

Or something like that, maybe… 🤪

I don’t think I’ve ever had a duck egg.

Last night I was at someone’s house that has chickens and I saw they also had some ducks now. I’ll have to try to acquire one… 🤔

In my HOA almost all of the board members own multiple units and they don’t even live in our neighborhood. I know one is a realtor, as she sold me my place, and another is just an investor.

They’re not always the most pleasant people, but they do an ok job the majority of the time. People seem to hate owning a house but still getting told no on things.

I don’t know if they actually vote multiple times, but I think we’ve had less than a half dozen rule changes in the almost 20 years I’ve been there.

They have a vested financial interest in making the neighborhood as attractive and successful as the rest of us. While their motivation is purely a financial interest, the petty and self-centered things I’ve seen my fellow residents try to demand is crazier than anything our board has actually done.

Just found this from this year. He seems very radical in real life. His name is totally cleared.

Everything you could ever want to know about artifical burrows

Animals don’t seem to know they’re supposed to follow our rules! (/s)

I forgot to ask, what do you raise the ducks for and how many do you have?

I had been feeling the same thing in Eastern Pennsylvania. Used to see lots of both, but last few years the lightning bugs were hardly noticeable and I hadn’t seen a rabbit in quite a bit when they used to be a regular sight in the neighborhood. But the last week or 2 there have been some nice lightning bug shows, though not as great as when I was a kid, and I’ve notices some bunnies grazing by the entrance to my road again.

I think it’s just less talked about because it seems to be going on so far from most English speaking places.

I’m not super familiar on any details, but of course there is a wiki for Buddism and Violence and there is plenty of current day stuff going on.

People are always going to eventually act their worst when enough refuse to back down on their personal beliefs, no matter their religion, or lack thereof for that matter. It’s sad seeing all the discrimination in the comments.

They’re blondes, it should be the girls.

I was going to say no Cousin Oliver, but I looked him up to see if he did anything else, and it says he was Michaelangelo in the 90s TMNT movies, so now I give him a pass.

I’ve been really loving the Dusky this year. They always look too cool for school!

They make a real killer combo!

I liked finding a picture where it looked serious. They usually look like big friendly goofballs. They’re still serious predators though!

You made me realize I had never finished reading the article myself! I read the asynchronous section that was relevant at the time, but I didn’t get to finish.

The clicking was very neat, especially that it wasn’t the egg tooth.

Also that eggs that are laid early vs later have different compositions, inside and out, to help the later ones “catch up” on development. I would have guessed the opposite, that the early birds needed more nutrition to stay healthy in the egg for a longer period.