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Dorsal Light Response - a reflex that causes insects to turn their backs towards a light source to orient themselves during flight.

agnostic bad driver: no one knows where all these dents and scratches came from

what’s genuinely stopping us from making funky, whimsical, maximalist cakes more often tho?? make colorful happy sweets!!! please, for the love of all that is pure on this planet!!!!!

Oarfish

they don't have these where i live now. i miss them terribly. but im making friends with the version they have here. they love peanuts 🥜

not much sexual dimorphism when it comes to the jays which are the color blue. w the stellars jays the little tiny spots on their foreheads tend to be slightly different colors. don't know as much abt the other kinds. the stellars have a very distinctive song and also a boisterous little shriek they like to do, and the scrubs have that shriek too, very difficult to tell apart except that you don't really run into the two in the very same environment. youd meet a stellars jay on top of a mountain and a scrub down in the desert. i don't know the bluejay sounds yet.

i was also completely delighted the other day to see several orioles!!!!!!!!!! which are new to me. and several swallows which im not used to. california has them but not the part im from. of course i miss my home birds a lot but i have to say it's also very fun to see the new ones. and of course there are plenty i see both places. lots of mourning doves here. robins. i have yet to see a raven in the entire city!!!!! which i find strange. i guess the whole place is crow territory. i spent a lot of my childhood at an elevation crows don't really reach, and i guess the landfills in the desert cause a raven uptick. didnt see many ravens in georgia either. so many cardinals though. and here too with the cardinals. none of those back home

saw-whet owl.... yeah i bet she did....

Robert McCall

they don't have these where i live now. i miss them terribly. but im making friends with the version they have here. they love peanuts 🥜

not much sexual dimorphism when it comes to the jays which are the color blue. w the stellars jays the little tiny spots on their foreheads tend to be slightly different colors. don't know as much abt the other kinds. the stellars have a very distinctive song and also a boisterous little shriek they like to do, and the scrubs have that shriek too, very difficult to tell apart except that you don't really run into the two in the very same environment. youd meet a stellars jay on top of a mountain and a scrub down in the desert. i don't know the bluejay sounds yet.

i was also completely delighted the other day to see several orioles!!!!!!!!!! which are new to me. and several swallows which im not used to. california has them but not the part im from. of course i miss my home birds a lot but i have to say it's also very fun to see the new ones. and of course there are plenty i see both places. lots of mourning doves here. robins. i have yet to see a raven in the entire city!!!!! which i find strange. i guess the whole place is crow territory. i spent a lot of my childhood at an elevation crows don't really reach, and i guess the landfills in the desert cause a raven uptick. didnt see many ravens in georgia either. so many cardinals though. and here too with the cardinals. none of those back home