Can confirm, I got into photography a few years ago and now I basically just follow birds around. I post some of the better ones I manage to get here :) https://pixelfed.social/yogthos
I spent 10 years photographing useless stuff. Birds opened my eyes.
I find I enjoy nature photography in general, but birds just have so much variety to them. :)
Hmpf. I confused pixelfeld with lichtfeld (light field, a 3D image format) and was disappointed.
I love how birds are named. Look Debbie, it’s a Coloredpart Sounditmakes.
I love my Tits
Black cap,blue,long tailed tits,great tits I love em
Oddly enough, other than the “part” thing, the Grey go-away-bird follows that formula. Not so much with the sad flycatcher (who’ll be alright, he just needs to process it all), the little bustard or the drab seedeater , who was clearly named by a dude who hates birds 😂
“Drab Seedeater” really was named by an ornithologist who was just god damned done that day, huh?
Absolutely 😂
Ah yes, the brownringed squarker.
🤣🤣🤣
Today I totally realized this. Thank you
My favorite of this pattern has to be the ruby throated hummingbird.
Reminds me of this:
That’s because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.
Sometimes when you look at pigeons they look back
I saw a white one yesterday.
Don’t stare at their beady little eyes
How dare they! I gave grain to their fucking mothers!
Birds aren’t real.
I know it’s the entire point, and “lol u mad,” etc., but boy do I hate this meme.
What can I say? I am a creature of the interwebs. BTW, I saw someone wearing this on a T shirt recently.
what kind of mad being puts tweets on a tshirt
I only report, I don’t judge
I don’t begrudge anybody taking weird stances for the troll of it… But i think back to how the flat earth movement started out the same way. Now it’s populated with a bunch of psychos killing themselves in homemade rockets, talking about how nasa is a conspiracy…
Yeah, exactly. This is why I get annoyed when people say it’s “harmless fun” when talking about homeopathy, or astrology or whatever. All pseudoscience is dangerous to society for the exact reason you just laid out. It promotes magical thinking over critical thinking, and next thing you know, you’ve got people buying 100% into shit that has been continuously disproven over and over for hundreds of years.
Every adult human should be required to read, A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. He does a much better job than I ever could at explaining why this is an issue.
The “Invisible Dragon in my Garage” is one of my favorite essays in the book, and played a huge role in influencing how I went about questioning, and ultimately leaving, the faith I was raised in. You can find the entirety of that essay if you search his name and the title of the essay. It’s not very long, but boy did he have a way of putting things into words that could just make things click.
Ooh, I haven’t read that book in like 20 years, I should dust it off again.
“The hole in the soul.” Plenty of people have a need to escape reality. Some people look to drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling. Others find their happiness in a belief that makes them smarter and braver than anyone else.
Wait till the “shoes fell off” meme hits lemmy
Do they know it though?
They’re all like “humans aren’t a real thing anyway”…
Actually, that’s a Vexlers Northern Swamp Warbler- you can tell by the gorsach veining on the pin feathers.
The older I get the more I do know about birds …but enjoy fucking with borders more.
You can rest assured that they’ve been watching you for your entire life.
The neighbours hand raised this abandoned baby starling a few years ago, so it had decided everyone in the neighbourhood was his best friend too, and used to visit me, sit on top of my head and sing, demand bugs and berries, and tease our dog. It got so I could pick its voice out in the tree, and would come and sit on the kitchen window and yell at us to come outside.
Hello fellow big featherless birds!
My grandma got me into birding when I was a young child. My friends always text me pictures of birds like it’s a quiz. Maybe this means they’ll start to catch up.
We’re still in the age of dinosaurs.
Some even taste good.
This hits a little two close to home…
Acquiring birds.
Quack
Ahh, the majestic space duck.
Go, unreasonably buff bird!
He has actually rambled about birds, and it’s actually pretty funny. He got off a tangent about a neighbor’s peacocks in his past, then talks about how owls would take their heads off in a swoop. “But I digress…”
Unfortunately I don’t quite remember the Knowledge Fight episode it’s in, so I can’t direct you to it. What I recall is he was talking about something completely different and god sidetracked.
More Jesse v cancer please Mr case!
Plane watching is basically birdwatching for nerds.
I’m close to YUL and often check flightradar24 ☺️
I live under SFO and wrote an Alexa app where I can ask what plane that is, and it tells me the plane and where it came from
Can I have it?
Sorry Jesse Case, I think I must have been born old. I’ve always noticed birds, if I see or hear a species I can’t recognise, especially if near where I live, I must id it to restore my inner peace. I’m yet to see this change as I age
Shit, it hurts bad, since COVID I took “birdnet” and check all birds, it’s so cool!
Bird identification is so fun with how easy it is to find them now! I love the Merlin app for identifying birds. It can also find birds as by their song in real time which is super cool.
This is what birdnet is doing, you record a bird and it tells you what it is :)
