NevadaWolf

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to Birds

Just before I snapped this picture, it seriously took me a moment looking through the viewfinder to make sense of what I was seeing.

Like, what??

🪶 #CarsonValley #DouglasCounty #Nevada #Birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #BaldEagle

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to random

sees an account shared for a thoughtful post
Wonder if I should follow them?
top post on profile is a screenshot from the video of the recently murdered federal employee by his son
PASS!

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to random

From the Lancet today

Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing: a multicentre cross-sectional study

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00013-0/fulltext

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to random

My #2024BirdCount is still going strong. Over this weekend, my total reached 57! According to eBird, I tend to report around 100-120 species during the course of the year, so having 57 already logged means I'm way ahead already. LOL

Birds added to my list:

Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Towhee
Lesser Scaup
Ring-necked Duck
California Scrub-Jay
Orange-crowned Warbler
Western Bluebird
Bewick's Wren
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Downy Woodpecker
Bufflehead
Gadwall

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to Birds

The first picture was identified as a sharp-shinned hawk by iNaturalist. It was about the size of a kestrel and I didn't think hawks came that small! Also here's a pair of red-tailed hawks, an American kestrel, and a greater yellowlegs (per Merlin listening to it).

#LahontanReservoir #LyonCounty #Genoa #CarsonValley #IndianLakes #ChurchillCounty #Nevada #Birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #SharpShinnedHawk #RedTailedHawk #AmericanKestrel #GreaterYellowlegs

A pair of red-tailed hawks at the top of a grain silo. They've built a nest where the ladder opens up to allow someone to access the top. One, a darker hawk, is down in the nest of sticks and branches, the other is perched on a yellow hand rail where it landed carrying a large branch, it's tail still held upward balancing the bird.
A silver and bronze kestrel grips onto a power line, the wind blowing the small bird around and causing it's back feathers to lift up giving it a ruffled look. Bright sunlight from the clear blue sky makes the white chest, silver sides, and bronze back shines. The two distinct black marks down it's cheeks are visible.
A white and brown bird wades through the shallow water of a small lake, it's long yellow legs shining in the sunlight. The oval shaped body supports a long neck with a long straight beak, all made to feed in the mud below the water.

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to random

Playing another live streaming chill music channel with a looping animated background. It shows a table with a laptop and coffee cup. The cup has a digital display showing the temp. When the temp drops, the table lights up briefly under the cup and the temp rises.

I know it's just a graphic, but a table that monitors and reheats my coffee would be awesome!

NevadaWolf, 4 months ago to random

While walking this morning, saw the various rocks and grasses and leaves on the ground were coated in frost that sparkled in the early sunlight.

A small maple-like brown leaf laying on broken asphalt. The edges, veins, and stem are covered in a sparkling white frost.

ai6yr, 4 months ago to cycling

Hmm, need a design for reflective stickers for a (currently) all black bicycle... here's where the lack-of-an eye for design is a problem, LOL. (they do make black reflective stickers, but I think adding some daylight bright colors will help on the safety front). #cycling

Yellow and purple and black airplane
Purple and orange and silver paint on a bicycle frame
Black and purple and orange and yellow on a bicycle farme

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to Birds

Holiday today that I didn't make any plans for, so just went out to look for more birds. Sunny and mild temps this morning let me drive around slowly with my window down. Stopped by two hot spots, the cemetery and a reservoir that was mostly iced over.

Did spot a lifer today, a Red-naped Sapsucker hammering away at a crack in a tree.

#ChurchillCountyCemetery #HarmonReservoir #Fallon #ChurchillCounty #Nevada #Birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #RedNapedSapsucker #BlackCrownedNightHeron #BeltedKingfisher #NorthernMockingbird #Lifer

A grey and white Black-crowned Night Heron stands on a grey rock with one bright yellow leg, the other tucked up into the loose fluffy feathers of its body. The dark grey cap that gives it it's name stretches over the head and down the back and upper wings. A bright red eye with black spot in the middle looks out over a yellow and grey bill. Tan reeds and grasses with grey rocks lining the edge of the empty canal fill the background.
A slate grey, white, and brown Belted Kingfisher perches on the end of a grey stick used as a fence post. The black eye looks out over the long black bill, both gleaming in the sunlight. The grey-blue head feathers are all spiked upward, and a distinctive brown band across the upper part of the white chest and rust-red colored under the wings. This rust color on the flanks (and also across the chest on adult birds) indicates the female Belted Kingfisher.
A small grey Northern Mockingbird briefly lands on a narrow red twig within a winter bare bush. The bird has a short black beak and shining gold eye, white striped wings, and a long thin tail. The top of the head and back are a dark grey, while the throat and chest are a light grey.

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to random

This morning's breakfast buffet customers.

While yes, I have seen all of these birds in this area, I've not seen several of them in my yard in town. I suspect a rather gifted starling...

Per MerlinID:
House Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
European Starling
House Finch
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Flicker
Mourning Dove
Song Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing
American Goldfinch
White-crowned Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
California Quail
Great-tailed Grackle
Killdeer
Western Meadowlark

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to Birds

Yesterday I found a nearby neighborhood that had a lot of Mountain Bluebirds flittering between the trees and roof tops. Today, I went to go get their picture and the pics of anyone else I saw along the way.

#Fallon #ChurchillCounty #Nevada #Birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #MountainBluebird

A bright blue Mountain Bluebird clings to the bare red branch of a tree, black feet gripped around the wood. The sunlight shines on the bright blue wings, blue back and head, and pale blue-white chest. A black bead of an eye glints in the light. The clean blue desert sky fills the background, highlighting how blue the bird is.
A blue Mountain Bluebird stands on the top of a copper sign post, thin black feet spread wide on the sloped metal. The bird is turned towards the camera, the pale blue-grey chest topped with the blue head and only a small portion of the bright blue wings visible over the shoulder. The long white underside of the tail extends back. A black eye glints in the sunlight as it looks out over the narrow black beak. A pale blue desert sky filled the background, almost the same color as the chest feathers.
A brilliantly blue Mountain Bluebird stands on the sloped roof of a house, it's bright blue wings, blue back and head, and pale blue chest lit by sunlight. A black eye glints in the light, while the narrow black beak extends forward. The clean blue desert sky fills the background, revealing how blue the bird is in comparison.

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to random

"We're not just avoiding the covid creeps and healthcare ghouls to avoid this disease, we're avoiding friends and loved ones who have become threats. That's profoundly sad, and we're grieving."

Pandemic Roundup: January 4, 2023 from @violetblue

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-95847175

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to Birds

I took over a hundred pictures today as I drove around the Carson Lake area looking for Snow Geese (reportedly over 500 somewhere in the area) and I'm not happy with, really, any of them. So very few are actually in focus. And I can't tell when looking at the preview on the back of the camera cause the image is so small and my glasses make it hard to focus up close (it's easier to see under the lenses when looking up close. I think I need trifocals or something).

So, here's one of the few good ones, though I really wish the vertical ones I took with the reflection had come out.

#CarsonLake #CarsonLakeWMA #Fallon #ChurchillCounty #Nevada #Birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #Juvenile #BlackCrownedNightHeron

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to random

Wow!!

The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online

https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/the-history-of-cartography-the-most-ambitious-overview-of-map-making-ever-is-free-online.html

elaterite, 5 months ago to random

I went for a short hike up to Chickadee Ridge above Lake Tahoe this morning. I've lived in the Reno area for >30yrs & never hiked up there, I guess because of the crowds. It's a popular spot because the chickadees will feed out of your hand. But today I didn't find any chickadees at the top. Lower down I saw a couple, saw one woman trying to get them to eat out of her hand but she wasn't having much luck so I didn't bother to setup to make detailed photos of the birds. It was a nice hike though.

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to california

Hanging out in Tahoe for Yule and went down to the lake at Zephyr Cove while checking out the abandoned Lincoln Highway. Then had lunch and was visited by a red shouldered hawk and a mountain chickadee.

#LakeTahoe #TahoeBasin #Nevada #California #Birds #Birding #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #RedShoulderedHawk #MountainChickadee

Looking out from a shore line covered in granite boulders towards a slightly rippled blue water lake. Sunlight shines on the granite boulders are out in the water with pine trees growing down to the water in the distance. Distant mountains line the far shore, topped with a dusting of snow, as distant puffy white clouds hang in a bright blue sky.
A red shouldered hawk perches at the top of a green pine tree, clear blue sky in the distance. The red head is turned downward, watching a pair of small dogs being walked in the street below. Speckled white and brown wings are tight against the body.
A grey and white mountain chickadee perches on the branch of a pine tree. Their black striped head and solid black throat are turned towards the camera white the body is turned in profile, showing the long grey wings and white side.

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to random

@ai6yr Do you have any bots that pull the updates from CalTrans Districts 3 or 10? Your share of the rock slide is the first I've heard of any issues on 50. And I probably should pay attention with travel this weekend.

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to random

Damn, and I thought the casino was bad for demanding employees work when sick.

Last year, boss was so ill he took the day off. A higher up demanded that he come in for a mandatory meeting the next day.

Just now, he tried telling his boss he's sick and leaving. His boss instead gave him a task that's due today before he can leave.

NevadaWolf, 5 months ago to random

The woman across the hall from my office brought us a little plate of homemade fudge for Christmas.

I'm not sure if my willpower is enough to resist devouring it before lunch.