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conulyGraceful, elegant hawks.
Or maybe they're falcons. Graceful, elegant falcons.
Well, they're graceful and elegant when they're in the sky, whatever sort of bird they are. Anyway, I'm somewhat less used to seeing one scrabbling awkwardly on a fencepost, trying to keep its balance while not looking totally doofy. It failed. It kept its balance, barely, but it did so at the cost of its dignity. It was very ridiculous. I tried to take a picture, but it awkwardly half-swooped to the next fencepost, and then the next, and I could never even get a good angle for a video.
I *think* it was trying to catch the squirrel that was running back and forth under this side of the fence and then the other, but there wasn't actually enough room between the fence and the walls of the houses next to the fence for the bird to squeeze in there.
Like I said, it was absolutely hilarious. You should've seen it.
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Or maybe they're falcons. Graceful, elegant falcons.
Well, they're graceful and elegant when they're in the sky, whatever sort of bird they are. Anyway, I'm somewhat less used to seeing one scrabbling awkwardly on a fencepost, trying to keep its balance while not looking totally doofy. It failed. It kept its balance, barely, but it did so at the cost of its dignity. It was very ridiculous. I tried to take a picture, but it awkwardly half-swooped to the next fencepost, and then the next, and I could never even get a good angle for a video.
I *think* it was trying to catch the squirrel that was running back and forth under this side of the fence and then the other, but there wasn't actually enough room between the fence and the walls of the houses next to the fence for the bird to squeeze in there.
Like I said, it was absolutely hilarious. You should've seen it.
U.S. Congress reaches a milestone in Indigenous representation
Hoglet Surprise!
Astronomers discovered the earliest known dark matter — and it's not behaving as predicted
Disney had a non-white (and deaf) mermaid long before Halle Bailey's 'controversial' casting
Country houses left behind on Riverside Drive
Can Science Solve the Mystery of the Concrete Book?
Bargain hunter scores 700-year-old medieval times document
Ukrainian refugees feel surprisingly at home in Brazil's 'Little Ukraine'
For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth wrote to her pen pal in North Dakota who was born on the same day as her
An investment scheme based on a time traveler’s inside information... or an investment scam and the original Pyramid Scheme?
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Date: 2022-09-24 04:30 am (UTC)On one hand, yes.
OTOH, the "science" in question is a project by antipsychiatry kooks to discredit mental healthcare by attacking a strawman, and been debunked from here to the moon already.
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Date: 2022-09-24 10:59 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2022-09-25 09:06 am (UTC)Or maybe they're falcons. Graceful, elegant falcons.<<
Hawks are built for soaring with broad wings. Falcons are built for speed and agility with long, narrow, pointy wings.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/00/0a/40/000a402e94a7875f8d71256d67ce43ab.jpg
Here we have red-tailed hawks and kestrels (a type of tiny falcon).
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-09-25 06:31 pm (UTC)Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-09-25 07:35 pm (UTC)https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Merlin/species-compare/