Such a pretty bird. All puffed up to keep warm. I get a lot of cardinals at my feeders, and some of them stay for years. I know this (in part) because for about four years, one of the male cardinals with a distinctive, partly white crest showed up almost every day. Sadly, he stopped showing up last spring. Because cardinals mate for life, I always wonder what happens to the partner of a cardinal who has died.
To my delight, there is a group of four or five cardinals that frequent my back yard. I put birdseed out for them, but deer come by to scoop up a lot of it. After the deer, a "herd" of squirrels indulge most of the remains. At the end of the day, not much is left for the cardinals, bluejays, and other birds. I buy at least two 20 pound bags of bird seed, but, alas, the birds get less of it than I would like. I'm in the DC suburbs, any suggestions?
Duncraft has a cone baffle in black, copper, and galvanized. Our black one has protected our feeder pole for DECADES. They have a cone for poles, squared wooden posts...
As to deer, you'll have to ask someone who understands how to deter deer, sorry, I only have a roving pack of coyotes who will keep the deer at bay intermittently.
In the mtns of San Diego, we haven't gotten any snow yet this season (okay...10 minutes or so, just to melt in the rain). Just rain and cold temps but not at the same time. Usually we have had several snow storms by now. The wood peckers never left. I saw one on the road that was acting like a fledgling. So maybe a triple hatching this year?
For several years on my walk to work in a residential area of the downtown area of our city, I would hear a woodpecker (sometimes it sounded like he was drilling into something other than a tree) almost every day, but I could never spot it. I would stop and look all around, but never actually saw it.
For the last 8 years, I walked a different route to a different job, so I haven't heard Mr. or Ms. Woodpecker in some time.
Flickers, relatives of woodpeckers, also peck, seeking insects. They also peck on things like metal flashing or chimney caps. The very loud noise that they make supposedly attracts mates or establishes territory.
Now there is a bird I'd like to spot in the wild. On a side note I have a collage somewhere called Four Lies. It is four photos, each for a season, but none of them represent the season you'd think it would be. One of them is a red cardinal on a snowy day.
Cardinals seems to have respect and great deference in the bird kingdom. Other birds give cardinals a buffer, seems like, and they seem to have top seed, so to speak, in the pecking order. Is it their striking red?
** Shrugs. ** Just things I noticed around the feeders.
You want to talk bossy in the bird kingdom, try hummingbirds. They are tiny and fighting mad. Hummingbird feeders always have plenty of holes but will a hummingbird share? Of course not. They dive bomb their rivals and make sure no one else is around while they feed. Napoleon complex.
Song birds (mainly goldfinches) like to hang on the chain and sit on the hummingbird feeder. When the hummingbird arrives, at .15 of the size of a finch, the hummingbird goes into attack mode.
Flickers, relatives of woodpeckers, also peck, seeking insects. They also peck on things like metal flashing or chimney caps. The very loud noise that they make supposedly attracts mates or establishes territory.
I am writing to share the heartbreaking news that my housemate Katy, also known as Woman in the Persistence / Woman Coming Home, passed away in her bedroom last night. It appears she died from a medical event.
After notifying the authorities and her mother, Susan, I have been struggling to process this immense loss. Katy was a beautiful soul, full of love and righteousness, and I miss her greatly.
I am currently working with Susan to ensure her affairs are settled and bills are paid. I will be staying in the house for the foreseeable future. Please keep Susan in your thoughts during this incredibly difficult time.
Susan and I are meeting this Friday to discuss arrangements for a memorial. In lieu of flowers, please consider participating in a protest this Saturday; Katy would have liked that.
If not for the Wonkette family I would never have had the chance to meet and share a few years with this powerful and joyful woman who became my best friend.
I am so sorry to hear this. It was heartwarming to see how you two were able to help each other in friendship and read about some of it on Wonkette. Her spirit will be missed. This is going to be very hard on you. Please stop and post whenever you think it will help you, even a little. We wish we could do more.
Wow UM (Joe), I am so, so sorry to hear this. You have my sincere, deepest sympathy. May Katy's memory be a blessing to you and all who knew her for the rest of your days.
Bari Weiss is actually the perfect person to run an alleged news organization in the maga era. She’s a totally unserious person pretending to be a serious person. Her job is to curry favor with a regime staffed by unserious people at the expense of accurate reporting all in the service of a mad king. The idea that she should be focused on having credibility with her audience is completely foreign to her.
Just an observation: Shitler is *never* more transparently phony then when he attempts to express sentiments of empathy or compassion; crocodile tears are more convincing.
I love the Bulwark piece where he tries the diet. There's an essay where a food writer agrees to do that challenge to eat on limited SNAP benefits for a week, going off of their little cooking booklet. He noted that first, things took a LOT of extra time--everything was made of something you had to first make. So you make some basic cooking mix thing that you use throughout the week to make a range of things, and then you turn it into "loaf" or whatever every day.
Second, there's little variety and little seasonings.
And I get it--YES, it's healthier to eat wholly homemade foods (though the baking mix you make sounds pretty gross and is like flour plus cheap vegetable oil), and less expensive. But it does take time--if you've got a couple of jobs, and a couple of kids, and you're adding in public transportation and all of that, it's going to be more challenging to spend more time and mind-space planning out and soaking and slow cooking and everything.
Then, there are no snacks or treats. I'm not a mom, and I don't even snack that often, but the kids come home and they might want SOMETHING before dinner. Sometimes I do too. This is just "here's what you need to survive".
And, going to the variety. Sure, I've made (usually do) a big pot of soup or something and then it's lunch or dinner for a few days. But every single day having just "improving" foods, and trying to pass off Monday's oil and flour loaf and today's topping for beans, and that's going to be tomorrow's little bean muffins...
Lastly, a lot of the working poor don't have a lot of space or kitchen utensils or ovens, always, so it was a bit unreasonable. There wasn't much in terms of fresh veggies, and not everyone has access to a freezer--and the main vegetable seems to be frozen corn (not with butter--in that baking mix).
All in all--it's clear that lots and lots of people feel like they get to dictate what poorer people "get" to eat, and that it should suck. It should suck and be a challenge.
I could say a few things about being in a poor environment, where if you're lucky you have a couple pots and pans and the housemates haven't stolen ALL your spoons to cook Oxys with. 😡 And the one guy hasn't destroyed the stove. 🤬
You only get a certain budget of food stamps. If I'm I there buying a steak, I'm living with the fact it's gonna be nothing but ramen for a few days to balance it out.
Which I think is fine. *I* get to budget and make my own decisions and live with them. If I want to spend a finite amount of money on a tin of caviar and ramen, who cares?
This is why I prefer a basic income to SNAP and the like.
It’d be almost interesting to ask these yobs how they think SNAP works, given they’re the sort who always estimates the foreign aid part of the national budget at up around 50%. Too much like kicking over a rock to see what crawls away, though.
A 2-ounce serving of original Spam Classic contains about 790 mg of sodium, roughly one-third of the recommended daily limit - The administration really wants us DEAD.
Great. So we basically let the pedophiles get away with their child trafficking and rape, and their money laundering and tax evasion… and just for good measure we ALSO bailed them out when they severely over-leveraged their investments with mortgage backed securities.
Frankly, these guys are lucky their remaining accomplices aren’t regularly mobbed in the street and executed.
“I just left a great group of people from Iowa, and half of them were crying as they talked to me,” Trump said at an event in Clive, Iowa. “I don’t think they’re crying because I’m doing a bad job. You know, in theory, you cry if you do a bad, they were crying because I’ve done a good job.” “They said, ‘Sir, you’ve brought our country back,’” he recalled. “Crying, crying.” “One woman was fantastic,” he said. “She grabbed me, and she put her head right there, and her tears are pouring all over my beautiful suit. I figured, I get it, and I checked it out, and there was a lot of makeup all over. I said, ‘What the hell am I gonna do? Get myself in trouble!’” “She was crying, and I said, ‘Don’t cry. Be happy. Be happy,’” he said.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/leucistic-northern-cardinal
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/0e89ee02-cbbc-45f4-aa44-2889b3c1984b?utm_source=share
Leucistic Northern Cardinal: "STOP LOOKING AT MY BUTT!"
Such a pretty bird. All puffed up to keep warm. I get a lot of cardinals at my feeders, and some of them stay for years. I know this (in part) because for about four years, one of the male cardinals with a distinctive, partly white crest showed up almost every day. Sadly, he stopped showing up last spring. Because cardinals mate for life, I always wonder what happens to the partner of a cardinal who has died.
To my delight, there is a group of four or five cardinals that frequent my back yard. I put birdseed out for them, but deer come by to scoop up a lot of it. After the deer, a "herd" of squirrels indulge most of the remains. At the end of the day, not much is left for the cardinals, bluejays, and other birds. I buy at least two 20 pound bags of bird seed, but, alas, the birds get less of it than I would like. I'm in the DC suburbs, any suggestions?
PredatorPee® Blend of Mt.Lion & Predatory WildCat Urine
https://duncraft.com/products/17-cone-squirrel-baffle-black?_pos=4&_psq=cone&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Duncraft has a cone baffle in black, copper, and galvanized. Our black one has protected our feeder pole for DECADES. They have a cone for poles, squared wooden posts...
As to deer, you'll have to ask someone who understands how to deter deer, sorry, I only have a roving pack of coyotes who will keep the deer at bay intermittently.
OK, I haz questions. Do hermaphrodite cardinals play on the men’s or women”s sportsball teams? Which bathrooms do they use?
Whichever, it still can beat Riley Gaines in a swimming competition.
How about holding your breath?
Some bazebawl fan from St. Louis on line two.
Leucistic Northern Cardinal sounds like someone who would get to pick new Popes.
In the mtns of San Diego, we haven't gotten any snow yet this season (okay...10 minutes or so, just to melt in the rain). Just rain and cold temps but not at the same time. Usually we have had several snow storms by now. The wood peckers never left. I saw one on the road that was acting like a fledgling. So maybe a triple hatching this year?
For several years on my walk to work in a residential area of the downtown area of our city, I would hear a woodpecker (sometimes it sounded like he was drilling into something other than a tree) almost every day, but I could never spot it. I would stop and look all around, but never actually saw it.
For the last 8 years, I walked a different route to a different job, so I haven't heard Mr. or Ms. Woodpecker in some time.
Flickers, relatives of woodpeckers, also peck, seeking insects. They also peck on things like metal flashing or chimney caps. The very loud noise that they make supposedly attracts mates or establishes territory.
Now there is a bird I'd like to spot in the wild. On a side note I have a collage somewhere called Four Lies. It is four photos, each for a season, but none of them represent the season you'd think it would be. One of them is a red cardinal on a snowy day.
What a pretty birb, I’ve never seen any but the usual suspects when it comes to cardinals.
lucky to have seen leucistic cardinal and blue jay
Cardinals seems to have respect and great deference in the bird kingdom. Other birds give cardinals a buffer, seems like, and they seem to have top seed, so to speak, in the pecking order. Is it their striking red?
** Shrugs. ** Just things I noticed around the feeders.
Bird feeders are a place where the whole hierarchy of the neighborhood flock is on display. It’s a fascinating show: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/power-struggles-are-playing-out-at-your-feeder-heres-what-to-look-for/
They are bossy!
Not as bad as Blue Jays. They are like the Donald Trumps of bird world.
You want to talk bossy in the bird kingdom, try hummingbirds. They are tiny and fighting mad. Hummingbird feeders always have plenty of holes but will a hummingbird share? Of course not. They dive bomb their rivals and make sure no one else is around while they feed. Napoleon complex.
Song birds (mainly goldfinches) like to hang on the chain and sit on the hummingbird feeder. When the hummingbird arrives, at .15 of the size of a finch, the hummingbird goes into attack mode.
Little Bovino complex.
That bird looks like Divine.
Pink, but not quite a flamingo.
That dang thing must eat a LOT of bebby shrimps..... :)
How dare you call me a bigot! Some of my best friends are those all red guys.
Lovely plumage!
And it's not even pining for the fjords!
Luckily not yet an ex-parrot.
"Who does your feathers? Are they accepting new clients? You look divine!"
We're gonna make him blush, I'd think he'd be used to it by now...
It's a feathery floof! Beautiful floof of perfection. ❣️
"Are you looking at my tail?"
Of course, and a lovely tail it is!
Release the Epstein files.
Flickers, relatives of woodpeckers, also peck, seeking insects. They also peck on things like metal flashing or chimney caps. The very loud noise that they make supposedly attracts mates or establishes territory.
this was meant as a reply to Liz and Max the No. 1 cat
Was anyone watching Jones's eyes? Did he perhaps blink out ./-..-/-/---/.-./-/../---/-.?
Good day all! The Hanover Board of Supervisors meets at 6 pm tonight. Rally starts at 5:30. Stop the ICE facility in Hanover County.
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VA wonkers please contact Warner and Kaine.
Thanks.
Dear friends,
I am writing to share the heartbreaking news that my housemate Katy, also known as Woman in the Persistence / Woman Coming Home, passed away in her bedroom last night. It appears she died from a medical event.
After notifying the authorities and her mother, Susan, I have been struggling to process this immense loss. Katy was a beautiful soul, full of love and righteousness, and I miss her greatly.
I am currently working with Susan to ensure her affairs are settled and bills are paid. I will be staying in the house for the foreseeable future. Please keep Susan in your thoughts during this incredibly difficult time.
Susan and I are meeting this Friday to discuss arrangements for a memorial. In lieu of flowers, please consider participating in a protest this Saturday; Katy would have liked that.
If not for the Wonkette family I would never have had the chance to meet and share a few years with this powerful and joyful woman who became my best friend.
Love to you all,
-Joe
I am so sorry to hear this. It was heartwarming to see how you two were able to help each other in friendship and read about some of it on Wonkette. Her spirit will be missed. This is going to be very hard on you. Please stop and post whenever you think it will help you, even a little. We wish we could do more.
I'm so, so sorry to hear this. May she rest in peace and power. May you also get some rest.
Oh, I am so sorry for your loss.
Wow UM (Joe), I am so, so sorry to hear this. You have my sincere, deepest sympathy. May Katy's memory be a blessing to you and all who knew her for the rest of your days.
Love to you, Joe.
Katy was the first wonker I ever met in person, when we organized the 2016 Drinky Thing at peninsula park in Portland.
She was a wonderful, smart, passionate soul. What a loss for us all. Thank you for looking out for her mom, and for letting us all know.
Thanks for letting us know. She'll be missed.
Fingers crossed for you and Susan.
Bari Weiss is actually the perfect person to run an alleged news organization in the maga era. She’s a totally unserious person pretending to be a serious person. Her job is to curry favor with a regime staffed by unserious people at the expense of accurate reporting all in the service of a mad king. The idea that she should be focused on having credibility with her audience is completely foreign to her.
Just an observation: Shitler is *never* more transparently phony then when he attempts to express sentiments of empathy or compassion; crocodile tears are more convincing.
Yeah SURE Trump is in better shape, Dr Ronnie. What a load of bullshit.
And I certainly hope that these murders by the regime are a tipping point and do not fade from the collective consciousness for a very long time.
The story of the taxpayers bailing out Epstein should be broadcast far and wide. THAT too would be a tipping point.
I love the Bulwark piece where he tries the diet. There's an essay where a food writer agrees to do that challenge to eat on limited SNAP benefits for a week, going off of their little cooking booklet. He noted that first, things took a LOT of extra time--everything was made of something you had to first make. So you make some basic cooking mix thing that you use throughout the week to make a range of things, and then you turn it into "loaf" or whatever every day.
Second, there's little variety and little seasonings.
And I get it--YES, it's healthier to eat wholly homemade foods (though the baking mix you make sounds pretty gross and is like flour plus cheap vegetable oil), and less expensive. But it does take time--if you've got a couple of jobs, and a couple of kids, and you're adding in public transportation and all of that, it's going to be more challenging to spend more time and mind-space planning out and soaking and slow cooking and everything.
Then, there are no snacks or treats. I'm not a mom, and I don't even snack that often, but the kids come home and they might want SOMETHING before dinner. Sometimes I do too. This is just "here's what you need to survive".
And, going to the variety. Sure, I've made (usually do) a big pot of soup or something and then it's lunch or dinner for a few days. But every single day having just "improving" foods, and trying to pass off Monday's oil and flour loaf and today's topping for beans, and that's going to be tomorrow's little bean muffins...
Lastly, a lot of the working poor don't have a lot of space or kitchen utensils or ovens, always, so it was a bit unreasonable. There wasn't much in terms of fresh veggies, and not everyone has access to a freezer--and the main vegetable seems to be frozen corn (not with butter--in that baking mix).
All in all--it's clear that lots and lots of people feel like they get to dictate what poorer people "get" to eat, and that it should suck. It should suck and be a challenge.
Cruelty. It's just plain cruelty.
I could say a few things about being in a poor environment, where if you're lucky you have a couple pots and pans and the housemates haven't stolen ALL your spoons to cook Oxys with. 😡 And the one guy hasn't destroyed the stove. 🤬
And don’t forget the outrage people have when someone on SNAP buys *horror!* a steak. Guess they should only be able to have Spam or potted meat.
You only get a certain budget of food stamps. If I'm I there buying a steak, I'm living with the fact it's gonna be nothing but ramen for a few days to balance it out.
Which I think is fine. *I* get to budget and make my own decisions and live with them. If I want to spend a finite amount of money on a tin of caviar and ramen, who cares?
This is why I prefer a basic income to SNAP and the like.
It’d be almost interesting to ask these yobs how they think SNAP works, given they’re the sort who always estimates the foreign aid part of the national budget at up around 50%. Too much like kicking over a rock to see what crawls away, though.
A 2-ounce serving of original Spam Classic contains about 790 mg of sodium, roughly one-third of the recommended daily limit - The administration really wants us DEAD.
Great. So we basically let the pedophiles get away with their child trafficking and rape, and their money laundering and tax evasion… and just for good measure we ALSO bailed them out when they severely over-leveraged their investments with mortgage backed securities.
Frankly, these guys are lucky their remaining accomplices aren’t regularly mobbed in the street and executed.
“I just left a great group of people from Iowa, and half of them were crying as they talked to me,” Trump said at an event in Clive, Iowa. “I don’t think they’re crying because I’m doing a bad job. You know, in theory, you cry if you do a bad, they were crying because I’ve done a good job.” “They said, ‘Sir, you’ve brought our country back,’” he recalled. “Crying, crying.” “One woman was fantastic,” he said. “She grabbed me, and she put her head right there, and her tears are pouring all over my beautiful suit. I figured, I get it, and I checked it out, and there was a lot of makeup all over. I said, ‘What the hell am I gonna do? Get myself in trouble!’” “She was crying, and I said, ‘Don’t cry. Be happy. Be happy,’” he said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-crying-woman-story_n_69798890e4b035e2a079d6e7?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Total horseshit. No way his detail would let someone get that close to him. And if they did, somebody is gonna slip him a shiv.
Sorry, but I'm not adding "Kristi Noem leaking" to my Pornhub queue.
Someone check Dr. Jones' prescriptions, because I think he's been prescribing himself *all* of the drugs.
> “He’s beholden to no tribe but himself, no ideology but his own”—that’s Weiss on Thiel
Is it? Are you sure that isn't a line from some old Ayn Rand novel?
It wouldn't surprise me to find a lot of these Silicon Valley dorks do get 100% of their beliefs from Atlas Shrugged.
>>>"Embattled” Kristi Noem is clearly leaking that it wasn’t her, it was Stephen Miller. . . . Not particularly exculpatory, there, Rohm.<<<
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