ingloriousBustards, to Birds
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Another great day of #FlywayBirding here today as immature #Birds made up the vast majority of those crossing the #14km divide !

European Honey #Buzzards, Black #Kites, Booted and Short-toed #Eagles, Marsh Harrier and Griffon #Vultures flowing over our heads ! 😊

European Honey Buzzard ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Black Kite ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Black Kite ©️ Inglorious Bustards

knizer, to boston
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This weekend of May 17th-19th, what's going on, #Boston ? What's the can't-miss event(s) you hope to enjoy?

(The #BostonWeekend Thread 1/?)

knizer,
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lowqualityfacts, to random
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Wow, you learn something new about kites every day.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

jstatepost,
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@lowqualityfacts
🥥 If Eye'm not mistaken, Mr Facts, it was Benjamin Franklin who originally designated kites as weapons of mass destruction.
Eye saw it somewhere on teh internets.🥥
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appassionato, to DadBin
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"No amount of propaganda should convince you that some children don't deserve to grow up."

Art by Henry James Garrett

https://www.tumblr.com/baby-girl-aaron-dessner/747965511326973952

@palestine

appassionato,
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ingloriousBustards, to Birds
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We got ourselves in the flow of migrating soaring #Birds yesterday with 12 European Honey #Buzzards, 915 Black #Kites, 79 Booted and 75 Short-toed #Eagles, Black #Storks, Montagu´s and Marsh #Harriers, Egyptian #Vulture and returning Griffon #Vultures !

Meanwhile downtown a gorgeous and unexpected male 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 joined the migration party! Normally breeding across Eastern Europe it is a welcome vagrant!

(Thanks to #amigo Ricky Owen for news on the Flycatcher!)

Booted Eagle ©️ Inglorious Bustards

TRZPhotography, to art
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mybirdcards, to Birds
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appassionato, to DadBin
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Hundreds of Palestinian children fly kites in Rafah as a symbol of peace in a time of war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO1i885zSWM

@palestine



glynmoody, to brazil
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banned these killer . Influencers are keeping the black market alive - https://restofworld.org/2024/kite-fighting-strings-banned-brazil/ “[These strings] cause cutting lesions, mostly in the neck area to people on bicycles or motorcycles, that can cause hemorrhages and end up in the victim’s death”

msquebanh, to DadBin
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The colourful fluttering in the skies of belie the reality they soar over: ragged tents packed tightly together, and lines of people trying to find food, water, and firewood. Running in and out of it all are children, brief smiles illuminating their exhausted faces as they look up at their flying miracles.

That such a simple toy can bring them moments of joy is in and of itself a miracle – and proof of the undefeatable spirit of ...

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2024/2/20/kites-fill-rafahs-skies-a-symbol-of-hope-amid-israels-war-on-gaza

appassionato, to Women
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"Bisan flying a kite today ♥️ The Palestinian smile is resistance to the colonizers and their inhumane occupation. Palestine will be free."

from Wear The Peace, 19/Feb/2024
https://www.instagram.com/wearthepeace?igsh=bjdxYjBzbGxmd28w

@palestine




ssharadmohhan, to art
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Two Women on a Terrace, Smoking #Huqqa & Flying #Kites on #Basant signifying the arrival of the #Spring #Season

On #BasantPanchmi #VasantPanchami

A major festival for the #Hindus, #Sikhs & #Muslims of the #Indian Subcontinent

c1785 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from the #EdwinBinney collection now at San Diego #Museum of #Art USA

#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Painting #Heritage #Hinduism #Islam #Sikhism #Religion #India #Paintings #MastoArt #History #Artist #Histodons #Festival #Celebration

petpet, to bluesky
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appassionato, to legal
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Indonesians flew kites in the colours of the Palestinian flag in a rice field in Ngaran Hamlet, in the Sleman Regency of Yogyakarta in Java as part of “Fly A Kite For Gaza” events held around the world.

@palestine



kat3638, to photography

This was a beautiful day for kite flying 🪁🌤️

southernminnguy, to photography
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Prairie Winds Kite Fly

Jackson, Minnesota, USA; traditional territory of the Wahpeton, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Yankton nations / Explore more at https://bit.ly/KiteFly_2022-09-10

ingloriousBustards, to random
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Amazing evening spectacle at the nearby rice fields with over 1,000 Glossy flying at us as the sun set!

Mixed in with White , Great White and Common as Black-winged drifted by and Bluethroats scuttled by!

Sifting through the we found Spotted Redshanks, Wood with Green Sandpipers, Ruff and sooooooo much more !

White Stork ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Glossy Ibis ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Common Cranes ©️ Inglorious Bustards

catnip, to random
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EdwardPhilips, to Birds
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Bore da everyone. Have a rapturous Saturday. xx

Urban_Hermit, to random
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I am roasting this website for putting out garbage that looks like information without even the decency to have a human proofread it for nonsense:

https://txcountyoffices.org/museums/nueces/international-kite-museum-tx/

You can tell it is AI because it doesn't understand that an adjective is as or more important than the noun that follows it. For instances, it harvested some information that a 1960's Governor started a program and then goes on to use "Governor" as a proper name. Highlights on page 2...

Urban_Hermit, to random
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(not the birds)
from Saturday at the Washington State International Kite Festival. Today we had the Parade of Colors (banners), the Cody Fly (Cody war kites), and the Flat and Bowed Kites Mass Ascension, as well as numerous sport flier ballet in both 2 and 4 line kites and pairs or teams. The wind has been light to medium, rarely exceeding 7mph. Temperatures are in the 70s, overcast sky, horizon to horizon, but it makes a nice break from the past several days.

1 of 2

Another great kite in the announcers tent. I don't know the name of it, but it has two oval wings (making it a type of box) and I love the the color scheme which suggests a sun, mountains, forest and lake.
Our announcer Bob Wendt, straightening out some kite fliers regarding the sign up sheets.
2 Examples of an older type of 4 line kite known as a Deca, from Guild Works. Both kites are upside down on the sand, the nearer kite is blue, lavender, and black. The one behind it is tie dye blue and black. I was told that they can still be custom ordered from Guild Works, but they require retooling the entire factory and cost around $3,000.

mrcanoehead, to Halifax Portuguese

Nice weather for the Atlantic Kite Festival

hananc, to random Hebrew

Shula & Eli Shavit are Israeli makers. Their unique style is sewn from patches of fabric. When the news about the Einstein tile was published, their son and I urged them to make a kite using this tile. And here it is, the Ein Stein (One stone) kite!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_problem

CC @csk

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