#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶
European Greenfinch
Chloris chloris
Feathers of yellow + green. Inhabits wooded habitats, including parks, gardens, and farmland. Forms flocks in autumn + winter. Although sociable, they may squabble at the feeder. Chattering song w/ buzzy “dzweeee” calls.
📷tomek61
European Greenfinch
Chloris chloris
Feathers of yellow + green. Inhabits wooded habitats, including parks, gardens, and farmland. Forms flocks in autumn + winter. Although sociable, they may squabble at the feeder. Chattering song w/ buzzy “dzweeee” calls.
📷tomek61
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶
European Greenfinch
Chloris chloris
Feathers of yellow + green. Inhabits wooded habitats, including parks, gardens, and farmland. Forms flocks in autumn + winter. Although sociable, they may squabble at the feeder. Chattering song w/ buzzy “dzweeee” calls.
📷tomek61
European Greenfinch
Chloris chloris
Feathers of yellow + green. Inhabits wooded habitats, including parks, gardens, and farmland. Forms flocks in autumn + winter. Although sociable, they may squabble at the feeder. Chattering song w/ buzzy “dzweeee” calls.
📷tomek61
Hmmmm, let me do a little #thinking about the #BirdOfTheDay theme …
#birds #northerncardinal #birdphotography #nature 🪶
#birds #northerncardinal #birdphotography #nature 🪶
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Hmmmm, let me do a little #thinking about the #BirdOfTheDay theme …
#birds #northerncardinal #birdphotography #nature 🪶
#birds #northerncardinal #birdphotography #nature 🪶
Since I "fixed" my 32X last night, I've been playing Kolibri, a shmup in which you play as a hummingbird. I looked up the manual, and it's so cute. The last few pages are just instructions to make a hummingbird feeder and then some hummingbird facts.
![The next page in the "Kolibri" manual. It is "Amazing Facts About Hummingbirds"
SIZE:
Hummingbirds rpoudly take their place among nature's smallest creatures...
* A Ruby-throated hummingbird weights 3 grams (less than a penny), and is only 3.5 inches long (about the length of a stick of gum). But during migration, it can fly 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico without stopping
* Cuba's bee hummingbird, the smallest in the world, is only 2.25 inches long. The largest is South America's giant hummingbird at a towering 8.5 inches long.
GOURMET FARE -- AND LOTS OF IT
Hummingbirds burn up so much energy that they must eat every 10 to 15 minutes to stay healthy...
* Hummingbirds' primary food is nectar, the sucrose-rich liquid produced by flowers.
* Hummingbirds also feast on gnats, fruit flies, and other small insects, up to 500 a day. Delicious!
* If we burned energy as fast as hummingbirds, we'd have to eat 155,000 calories a day. That would be over 1100 hamburgers, about 370 pound[...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l4nttmvihosqvdmz36e6oa66/bafkreifi3oanyhaqzsehrisvxnf3ovbo7nupocmvmqf5vzojyxbvl3jxby@jpeg)
June 8, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Since I "fixed" my 32X last night, I've been playing Kolibri, a shmup in which you play as a hummingbird. I looked up the manual, and it's so cute. The last few pages are just instructions to make a hummingbird feeder and then some hummingbird facts.
I also saw the new how to train your dragon remake at a drive in. I dunno, just felt like a drabber and less charming version of the original.
June 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I also saw the new how to train your dragon remake at a drive in. I dunno, just felt like a drabber and less charming version of the original.
It is not possible for Russia to get drabber.
August 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It is not possible for Russia to get drabber.
Both would be good, and also 20th century greeks tramp captains, Irish hooligans, preconquest Fijians, modern drag queens... I'd just like to see Not the Same Again But This Time Drabber.
February 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Both would be good, and also 20th century greeks tramp captains, Irish hooligans, preconquest Fijians, modern drag queens... I'd just like to see Not the Same Again But This Time Drabber.
We should all live to be almost 96, but this is still a huge loss. We've lost too many giants of the medium these last few years at a time in history where everything already seems drabber.
RIP to the absolute legend Jules Feiffer: political cartoonist, social satirist, comics historian, illustrated the Phantom Tollbooth, wrote screenplays for Robert Altman and Alain Resnais—and that’s the short version
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We should all live to be almost 96, but this is still a huge loss. We've lost too many giants of the medium these last few years at a time in history where everything already seems drabber.
which blend in with the swathe of new stuff along the foreshore.
A ton of cool murals on the drabber old buildings visually links them with the new face of the city, while some of the heritage façades are getting a touch-up.
A ton of cool murals on the drabber old buildings visually links them with the new face of the city, while some of the heritage façades are getting a touch-up.
November 9, 2024 at 8:16 AM
which blend in with the swathe of new stuff along the foreshore.
A ton of cool murals on the drabber old buildings visually links them with the new face of the city, while some of the heritage façades are getting a touch-up.
A ton of cool murals on the drabber old buildings visually links them with the new face of the city, while some of the heritage façades are getting a touch-up.
My Bird Pic of the Day is this Common Eider I saw on my recent Cape Cod trip ….I was super happy when this one swam into a pretty good spot for me to shoot it, the rest of the ones I saw on this trip were in drabber plumages… 🪶
November 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM
My Bird Pic of the Day is this Common Eider I saw on my recent Cape Cod trip ….I was super happy when this one swam into a pretty good spot for me to shoot it, the rest of the ones I saw on this trip were in drabber plumages… 🪶
Also, like the nice drabber colors used here. Sort of matching to her just awakening in the morning and still in the hidden shadows before she even tries to bring in the light. Anywho, keep up the splendid art you got here. *nods*
November 19, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Also, like the nice drabber colors used here. Sort of matching to her just awakening in the morning and still in the hidden shadows before she even tries to bring in the light. Anywho, keep up the splendid art you got here. *nods*
The plumage of breeding birds in the spring makes them look somewhat like a chickadee crossed with a black-and-white warbler. (The breeding females are a more difficult to discern with their drabber colors and faded markings.)
September 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The plumage of breeding birds in the spring makes them look somewhat like a chickadee crossed with a black-and-white warbler. (The breeding females are a more difficult to discern with their drabber colors and faded markings.)
And as for the two departed friends: I've also been lucky to have had people who loved me. The world is drabber and poorer -- and not just to me! -- without them and their imaginations and creativity and kindness.
December 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
And as for the two departed friends: I've also been lucky to have had people who loved me. The world is drabber and poorer -- and not just to me! -- without them and their imaginations and creativity and kindness.
right exactly there was a whole swath of the population whose main enemy was overstimulation, they thought that the drabber the surroundings the better, i'm sure they would have claimed some specific thrilling musical genre caused idk dropsy
October 22, 2024 at 12:17 AM
right exactly there was a whole swath of the population whose main enemy was overstimulation, they thought that the drabber the surroundings the better, i'm sure they would have claimed some specific thrilling musical genre caused idk dropsy
Another monjita from #Uruguay .. this one much drabber than its white cogenor cousin. This is the Gray Monjita (Xolmis cinereus) #BirdingUruguay #birds #birding #flycatchers
December 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Another monjita from #Uruguay .. this one much drabber than its white cogenor cousin. This is the Gray Monjita (Xolmis cinereus) #BirdingUruguay #birds #birding #flycatchers
Red Knot (Calidris canutus), The Ayres NNR, Isle of Man, 13/09/2006 ebird.org/checklist/S4... Red Knots are only red when in breeding plumage. As they migrate south from their high arctic breeding grounds to tidal mudflats for the winter, they moult into their grey drabber winter plumage #ukbirding
November 19, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Red Knot (Calidris canutus), The Ayres NNR, Isle of Man, 13/09/2006 ebird.org/checklist/S4... Red Knots are only red when in breeding plumage. As they migrate south from their high arctic breeding grounds to tidal mudflats for the winter, they moult into their grey drabber winter plumage #ukbirding
In process pics of my Grombrindal. #Warhammer #Nerdlings
I decided on a drabber green cloak because:
I want to balance the warm and cool tones. Next is that green isn’t an unfamiliar color to the White Dwarf. And finally, a cloak for someone like the White Dwarf is a means to move beyond ken.
I decided on a drabber green cloak because:
I want to balance the warm and cool tones. Next is that green isn’t an unfamiliar color to the White Dwarf. And finally, a cloak for someone like the White Dwarf is a means to move beyond ken.
October 27, 2024 at 11:40 AM
In process pics of my Grombrindal. #Warhammer #Nerdlings
I decided on a drabber green cloak because:
I want to balance the warm and cool tones. Next is that green isn’t an unfamiliar color to the White Dwarf. And finally, a cloak for someone like the White Dwarf is a means to move beyond ken.
I decided on a drabber green cloak because:
I want to balance the warm and cool tones. Next is that green isn’t an unfamiliar color to the White Dwarf. And finally, a cloak for someone like the White Dwarf is a means to move beyond ken.
@hank-mccoy.bsky.social
"Henry, are you dying your fur? I could've sworn you were a drabber shade of blue last I laid eyes on you."
"Henry, are you dying your fur? I could've sworn you were a drabber shade of blue last I laid eyes on you."
March 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@hank-mccoy.bsky.social
"Henry, are you dying your fur? I could've sworn you were a drabber shade of blue last I laid eyes on you."
"Henry, are you dying your fur? I could've sworn you were a drabber shade of blue last I laid eyes on you."
Here’s my much drabber cartoon in #MillionsMissing.
December 21, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Here’s my much drabber cartoon in #MillionsMissing.
That's colorful paper money! Ours in the US is drabber than most, but I don't think I've seen any country's currency that colorful.
April 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
That's colorful paper money! Ours in the US is drabber than most, but I don't think I've seen any country's currency that colorful.
I often say the world seems drabber than it did when I was much younger. This may be one of the factors!
March 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I often say the world seems drabber than it did when I was much younger. This may be one of the factors!
A chilly fall with bright, sunlit days will leads to the most vibrant color display. Rainy or cloudy days can lead to a drabber autumn.
A look behind the science of why trees turn different colors during the fall
A chilly fall with bright, sunlit days will leads to the most vibrant color display. Rainy or cloudy days can lead to a drabber autumn.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A chilly fall with bright, sunlit days will leads to the most vibrant color display. Rainy or cloudy days can lead to a drabber autumn.
(Thus, several of the paler/drabber colors were altered or just altogether dropped, new more vibrant shades happened after testing with kids went over well.)
(Personally I can barely tell old light gray and light bluish gray apart without very direct side-by-side so not really bothering there.)
(Personally I can barely tell old light gray and light bluish gray apart without very direct side-by-side so not really bothering there.)
July 3, 2024 at 5:04 AM
(Thus, several of the paler/drabber colors were altered or just altogether dropped, new more vibrant shades happened after testing with kids went over well.)
(Personally I can barely tell old light gray and light bluish gray apart without very direct side-by-side so not really bothering there.)
(Personally I can barely tell old light gray and light bluish gray apart without very direct side-by-side so not really bothering there.)