be gay, watch birds

Instead of working on an extremely important scholarship project, I spent the majority of last week needle felting a life-sized American Woodcock.

My favourite part was when they were all around. ❤️‍🩹

But I particularly enjoyed it, too, when the parents would return with food, and the babies would just shriek and flutter their wings wildly, not moving from the spot they were no matter what, and they wouldn't stop until the parents approached them and stuffed the food into their little mouths.

SO SEASON TWO HUH HOW YALL DOING

Bring them as a snack for when you go.

Don't shake them: they'll break if they get loose.

i got charlie a sticker activity book and it occurred to me i have to TEACH someone how to unpeel stickers. it's SKILL that requires DEXTERITY and FINE MOTOR ABILITY. i thought it was obvious that you have to curl the page a little bit to create a break in the cut so the sticker comes up.

obviously a fucking BABY wouldn't know that because they have no background experience to inform their thought process. OBVIOUSLY. and OBVIOUSLY the LITERAL BABY wouldn't get it right the first few times. it would OBVIOUSLY take practice. lots of it.

i hate this feeling. it's so obvious. why are children treated so badly when they're learning everything for the first fucking time. why do people treat children so horribly and expect so much. they're brand new. why didn't i get the same grace i give to my child? why did no one have patience for me? why, when it's this easy?

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.

After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.