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handmade ghost

Something warm to cup in your hands on a cold winter's day. #borb

Photo of a very, very round, grey, almost furry-looking bird with a small head, white eyering, and tiny black needle point of a bill. This softie of a bird--a "Townsend's" solitaire--is sitting on a hairy- or almost thorny-looking mass of mahogany--just a little peak of dark, reddish brown that looks a lot like a tangled bunch of grapes stems denuded of their grapes. The solitaire is floomfed up in the cold, grey winter air, a perfect croquet ball of soft, feathery grey, and looking up and off to eir right as though waiting for something. The white ring around eir tiny black eye gives em an adorably cartoony look. E is the epitome of borb.
6 December at 15:10 | Open on sunny.garden
40 comments
Stéphanie Pageau

@handmade_ghost FLUFFY. Oh I love winter birds. They make me so happy

6 December at 15:11 | Open on ottawa.place
handmade ghost

@stephanie Same! They are just so fluffy and good.

6 December at 15:13 | Open on sunny.garden
Stéphanie Pageau

@handmade_ghost I just looked through the window downstairs and a fluffy house finch was in the seed catcher (still completely full of snow!!) looking for seeds. Sooo cute

6 December at 15:19 | Open on ottawa.place
handmade ghost

@stephanie oh my goodness--I love watching them hopping in and rooting around in the snow. 🥹

6 December at 15:20 | Open on sunny.garden
Dan McCullough

@handmade_ghost This floof has steeped a loooong time. 🤭

6 December at 15:16 | Open on wooded.stream
Idzie
Loren
worm with problems

@handmade_ghost oh I wanna cup it in my hands so bad

6 December at 15:40 | Open on fandom.ink
DeterioratedStucco

@handmade_ghost
Not a bird I know, or not off the top of my head anyhow. Where, please?

6 December at 15:45 | Open on mas.to
laen (lily's new name)

@handmade_ghost oh that is ... a bird's head. on. something roumb and soft. that is ... BORB.

6 December at 15:51 | Open on sunny.garden
tuban_muzuru
tuban_muzuru

@moonrabbit @handmade_ghost

[in my falsetto voice, reserved mostly for sad children] but I would not cup heem in my hands for he is a Wyld Thing. I would encourage heem to enjoy his downy feathers for I wish I had a few million of them for staying warm.

6 December at 15:54 | Open on ohai.social
handmade ghost

@moonrabbit ready for the tiniest finger stroking and head pats

6 December at 15:57 | Open on sunny.garden
laen (lily's new name)

@handmade_ghost and an open hand in which it can nestle, if it is cold :bunhdlurkaww:

6 December at 16:04 | Open on sunny.garden
Lisa 🦔

@handmade_ghost is a very fancy makeup powder applicator!

6 December at 15:55 | Open on flipping.rocks
BAD BURNS aka Knitting Dyke

@handmade_ghost Hey! That bird stole my pompom! 😂

6 December at 15:59 | Open on mspsocial.net
Loren
Lydia Schoch

@handmade_ghost @dillyd I’d never actually touch a wild animal, but I want to cup this one in my hands. So fluffy and soft looking.

6 December at 16:51 | Open on mastodon.social
handmade ghost

@lydiaschoch @dillyd Same--this one is so particularly inviting. E also makes a very sweet, lonely, lilting call that sort of lights up the woods.

6 December at 16:55 | Open on sunny.garden
peachfront
Budgegeria 🦜

@handmade_ghost Look at that proud facial expression.

6 December at 17:20 | Open on birdon.social
_maleficentgirl

@handmade_ghost

that is the floofies ball I've seen so far 😍

6 December at 20:18 | Open on troet.cafe
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