Sunset tonight was at 846pm and that is exactly when the male summer tanager came to the jelly feeder. The house finch also likes jelly, but will visit it only in the early evening. And an unwanted visitor was eyeing the jelly feeder, too. #birds#birding#birdsofmastodon#birdphotography#raccoon#nature#tanager#finch
The first sighting of a #Greenfinch on the reserve at #WWTCastleEspie for many a long year.
This species has been having a hard time recently. Could they be recolonising? 🤞🏻
This lovely #male#chaffinch was following me around #VictoriaPark this morning.
I tried explaining that I didn’t have any food but it’s almost like he didn’t understand… 🤷♂️
It's been cloudy most of the day and there were only the usual suspects at the feeders. The air quality index (AQI) has been getting worse. I wonder if it's related to the #zombiewildfires in Canada. It used to be that the only good thing about winter was how clean the air was--now there's nothing good about winter. #birds#birding#birdsofmastodon#birdphotography#bluebird#finch#HoosierMast
Greetings Programs! We're going to be getting started here shortly. Hopefully we'll get into some @pidgin stuff tonight, but of first course of action is to fix libgnt, an #ncurses library we wrote for #finch which is currently failing to build from source which is threatening to remove Pidgin 2 from #Debian testing. This should be straight forward, I think, but I haven't dug into it at all yet! Come on by!! #OpenSource#OpenSourceLivehttps://twitch.tv/rw_grim/
It’s wrong to have #favourites but these guys are definitely one of mine - the male #bullfinch.
Brightening a dull day at #WWTCastleEspie this morning.
Probably outdated, even for a terminal application, but it's very lightweight and allows multiple accounts and protocol. And it behaves just like a GUI app - except that the windows are drawn in the terminal!
Very nice now that I'm hosting my own #XMPP server, and don't need OMEMO to chat locally anymore
Ok, I spent the afternoon at the Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver, which is a huge greenhouse full of exotic plants and birds, and naturally I took a billion photos. Get ready for the photo dump…
Oh, and another little migrant just popped in for the very first time! A Pine Siskin, of the finch family. Another demonstration of why one shouldn't deadhead all the flowers this time of year. Not all seedeaters like feeders.
"Bee Balm" are tall, strange-looking red flowers with spikey petals. They are great for attracting #Pollinators, and are a particular favorite for the local #bees, #hummingbirds, #butterflies, and an occasional #Finch. They are #perennials and come back every year on their own.
But in the Autumn, I sometimes pick some of the dead flower blooms, let them dry over winter, then use them the next year as seeds for elsewhere in my #gardens. (This year, I haven't kept up with pulling the weeds the way I should have, so there are a few weeds growing too-tall among the flowers.)