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Do frogs yearn?
They yearn for dew on mushroom caps; for butterflies with laboured flaps; for the ooze of mud between their toes; for nights of stars and firefly glows; for dappled light upon their logs; for rain that fills their cozy bogs, to make them happy little frogs.
text by @ markscherz, tumblr's own herpetologist.
Oh my goodness, how beautiful! A tiny frog be upon you for this lovely treat!
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It's World Sparrow Day, and what a nice chance to show this guy again, a favorite from this winter - the Fox Sparrow! I love it when the native Sparrows pop up, they are always a surprise because they barely ever visit feeders. Spring is a good time to look out for them and learn how to ID them, they are migrating.
[ID: Video of a small bird, grey with brown speckles, pecking at seeds amid dried leaves and branches. It smacks its beak and sifts through the seeds with its claws.]
Red Warblers (Cardellina rubra), family Parulidae, order Passeriformes, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photographs by Manuel Grosselet
[ID: Four pictures of a red bird perched on branches at different angles, up close. The bird is small, oval-shaped with a sharp beak and long tail. Itâs bright red with two white tufts on its cheeks]
Noble Eucalyptus Leaf Beetle (Paropsisterna nobilitata), family Chrysomelidae, Australia
photographs by Hongming Kan
[ID: Four close-up photos of a round beetle with short legs and thin antennae. Its exoskeleton is greenish brown with a vivid pattern in gold, black and red on the back. It's sitting on a leaf.]
BLM has published a plan to maximize logging in Oregon forests, including old growth forests, without due regard to wildlife (including endangered species) and waterways. They're claiming it will help prevent forest fires, though that seems to be contrary to current science, including that published by the forest service (you can find a list of sources here). This is in response to Trump's executive orders 14223, Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products and 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.
We have 30 days to submit comments if we want to prevent this. This article has suggestions for what you can say, and how:
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
You can read more about it here:
Conservationists say proposal to âmaximizeâ logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife
If you live in Oregon and you love our forests, please submit a comment before March 23rd.
If you don't live here, it would be super helpful if you could reblog to spread the word.
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So you want to support a queer-friendly (and pretty queer generally) team with good vibes from Ottawa? Look no further.
Ottawa v. Boston is on at 2pm ET on CBC and YouTube February 28.
[Image Description: Graphic of a woman in hockey gear with a large red C logo styled to look like a speeding puck. She also has a red C for captain on her chest. Sheâs labeled 19 Brianne Jenner. Text says âThe Ultimate Ottawa Charge Fan Guideâ]
Thank you so much for the work you do curating this wonderful blog! May I request some birds that are so odd they look made-up?
I have a few ideas for you...
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), family Balaenicipitidae, order Pelicaniformes, found in wetlands in east-central Africa
This bird is the only member of its family.
The taxonomic affinities of this bird have long been debated. It currently rests within the order Pelicaniformes. (It was, in the past, often places in the Ciconiiformes). Its closest living relative is most likely the Hamerkop.
photographs by Gian Luca Tognon, P Muramura, Pravrachya Saruchi
Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus), family Nyctibiidae, order Nyctibiiformes, Brazil
photographs by Pedro Ferreira do Amaral, Kevin Zaouali
Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola peruvianus sanguinolentus), male, family Cotingidae, Jardin de Rocas, JardĂn, Antioquia, Colombia
photograph by Charles J. SharpÂ
[ID: From top to bottom: Three images of a Shoebill which is grey with a beak that is shaped kind of like a croc shoe or a loaf of bread. Two photos of a Common Potoo, it has big eyes in kind of vapid gaze and a wide mouth. It has yellow eyes and spotted brown feathers. One photo of an Andean Cock-of-the-rock. It has a large tuft of feather on its forehead that makes it look like there's a bump there bigger than its head. It's a very bright orange.]
One afternoon in Japan, I went to a small neighborhood rice shop and asked if they had rice that didnât require rinsing. âWe donât rinse rice,â the owner said, âwe sharpen it.â In Japanese, to sharpen rice is an idiom for rinsing rice, a phrase that once referred to rubbing the grains together to polish away the bran. The verb togu (âto sharpen,â âto honeâ) still carries that trace of abrasion, long after modern rice no longer needs it. Iâd never thought about this etymology before: after years of speaking, reading, and writing in English, the phrase reached me as if for the first time. My unwitting mistranslation made me aware of what Iâd forgotten, âto sharpenâ sleeping inside âto rinse.â That mistake was accidental, but it taught me something Iâve since tried to do on purpose, in both my poems and my translations: to keep shifting between my native language and my adopted language until they become defamiliarized. While my slip at the rice shop revealed the semantic possibilities of togu, my later translations would explore how choosing the âwrongâ word might reveal what the ârightâ one canât.
âYuki Tanaka, Huffing Like a Horse
Ah, bless.
Red Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus pitanga), family Brachycephalidae, endemic to Atlantic Rainforest in Sao Paolo State, SE Brazil
Poisonous.
As with other Brachycephalus sp., they lay a few eggs in moist terrestrial locations, and the young live as tadpoles in the eggs, and then hatch out as froglets.
Adults reach a max. snout vent length of up to 14Â mm (0.55Â in).
They are actually unable to hear their own advertisement calls, as their ears are underdeveloped.
They also do not hop, but instead slowly crawl across the forest floor.
photograph by Guilherme Lopes Machado
[ID: Close-up picture of very small orange toad with black eyes]
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Isnât this green tree frog a cutie? The remarkable thing is that this frog climbed 35 metres to be at the top of my deck. Itâs a big fall. They must be so strong!
[ID: Front view and side view of a green frog crouched on a railing, looking pensively downwards.]
drew microscopic life again. the earth is healing
[ID: Colourful drawing of microorganisms of various shapes and sizes. A stylized drawing of what you might see under a microscope. Includes an eight legged tardigrade, a creature with antennae, and a few star-shaped, round, and blobby organisms.]
Little Red, what big teeth you have.
[ID: Image 1: Close up detail of the drawing in Image 2. Enidâs shadow is a huge wolf. Image 2: Drawing of Wednesday examining human Enidâs teeth. Her canines are long and sharp. The colours of the drawing are muted except for Enidâs cloak which is a vivid red.]
Itâs the most wonderful time of the year! Tadpole season in the northern hemisphere! These common toad tadpoles, Bufo bufo, are travelling in schools in a local pond, eating all the detritus they can find.
[Video Description: Many large black tadpoles wriggling in a pond.]
This cute little critter isnât AI-generated. Meet the hairy horned dorid (Acanthodoris atrogriseata.). Found in intertidal habitats in the Northern Pacific, including Washington stateâs Puget Sound, this species grows about 1.1 in (2.7 cm) long. The hairy horned dorid is a nudibranchâand itâs just one of the more than 2,000 known species of these soft-bodied marine molluscs!
Photo: Paul Norwood, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
[ID: A white nudibranch, underwater. The nudibranch is small, round, soft-looking with two horns and other small spikes that also look soft.]
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Reenactor throws a spear at a drone
What a time to be alive.
âThe medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down âdragonsâ with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique âdragon-likeâ design for their flying machines.â (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized âoops maybe I shouldnât have done thatâ and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll
I crack up every time at seeing that runestone.Â
Thats literally how mythology happens btw
Thats literally
how mythology happens
btw
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.
Jeez, volume LOW on this one to start with.
And who the hell gave the shoebill the machine gun?!
