@loren This pic reminds me that yesterday I *almost* won Wingspan yesterday and my first card was a Red-Breasted Nuthatch!

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Very nice picture of a great little bird.

@loren We all know that without them, many tree species would go extinct (nuts could never hatch) and there would no longer be a species strong enough to open brazil nuts or precise enough to get whole walnuts out.

Never enough nuthatches.

@loren No birds? Owl be darned!
#Birds #Owl

@loren It sort of looks like the start of the Macarena?

@loren squirrel facepalm is something I need more of in my life. (image 2)

@loren *stares out the spaceship*

like how round can you be??

@loren waxwings always look so well groomed

Round!!

@loren I met a neighborly mining bee recently, it really lived up to its name! It landed on my leg and hung out for a while.

:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208975000

They're also good for throwing them at people who are annoying you 🧅

i love skimmers so much, what strange looking creatures. i wish i had a recording of what these colonies sounded like though. it was an absolute cacophony lmao

@loren I used to see them fairly often where I used to live, and loved seeing the skimming in action. Magic.

It wasn’t until years later I saw a photo of what they look like end-on. Had no idea their bills were so narrow! Awesome.

@loren What, woah, who are these guys with the Flintstones beaks and why have I never been aware of them before?

@loren LOVE IT!

@loren frogge

@loren he peeks

(don't know why all small animals are "he" to me, they're just little guys)

@loren 🐸😍

@loren How did that happen, I thought they never stop flying about.

@loren a beauty!!

@loren @she_goes_on #birdsofmastodon #aberdeen Last spring newly arrived swallows had to take shelter from gale force winds and torrential rain under the eaves of our block of flats. One one was found dead on our veranda, the poor thing was covered in ticks.

@loren HONK!