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did you know that they are capable of imitation? don't worry! apparently no one else does either, but i have personally overheard them doing terrible approximations of not only red-winged blackbird songs, but also rooster crowing, ring-necked pheasant squawking, and what i now believe to be an eastern meadowlark song (which i have captured on video, something about which no one gave a fuck!!)

they are supposed to be drawn to marshes with deep water, over which multiple females will weave nests in single male controlled territories of typically 1k to 6ksqft. the waters of this marsh are wading depth, and the males control micro-territories of what cannot be more than 500sqft each-- territories that they share neutrally with marsh wrens.

Recently I found a big cheap "canvas" print at the thrift store, the sort of thing that's mass produced to look good in online listing but is noticeably cheap in person. But I loved the colors and the anatomy was surprisingly good, so it came home with me. At a glance it seemed to be an oriole with questionable fidelity, bafflingly posed on some cattails. I didn't think much of it, birds in art are full of bad anatomy and species all smushed together. At least it isn't a macaw with a crest. But as soon as I saw the photos here, I realized it's actually extremely species accurate, I just didn't know this was a species to consider

1. All sports should be coed and it's an insult to women to have them separated by gender

2. Trans women are women. If you, as a cis woman, get beat by a trans woman in a sport, it's because you did worse at it.

3. I know 2 can be hard to swallow, but as a 5'1 woman in contact sports my whole life: you either adapt and figure out how to make your own advantage, or you lose.

4. Losing happens and makes you a better player for it. If you're a cis woman who lost a game to a trans woman - it's an opportunity to be a better player. I encounter cis women significantly taller and faster than me with more muscle mass all the time. If you say you're losing to someone because of different muscle frame - you need to get creative or practice more.

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

For 2024, I had named it the year of honey, thinking myself very clever. I did not call it honeyed, sweet, bathed in delight, no: it was the year of honey. I suppose I forgot to ask myself who made the honey, and why, and how. Honey indeed... for others, not me, the defeated worker bee who dropped dead at the end of summer after putting her life force into spoils others would enjoy.