I adore my jays. I switched feeding strategies in my backyard to a trough-style feeder to make extra room for the little birds and prevent the Jays from bullying everyone else out.
One cool thing I’ve noticed is the Jays acting like a (very loud) lookout alarm for all the other species. The Jays scream, and everyone runs away and hides. I’ve seen it when the hawk comes poking around, and once when a cat found its way onto my deck.
Hell yeah, little Jay, get it!
They’re such ugly little vultures under all that floof, I love it
So mean!!
I’ve never seen this in real life, but I have seen like half a dozen sparrows chasing around a hawk that was stalking one of their nests. It was interesting to see the cooperation. “Not today, Satan!”
I don’t know where OP is, but here in Massachusetts, we have no sales tax on groceries:
https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/massachusetts/sales-tax-exemptions
Are you suggesting a privatized National Weather Service and toll bridges would be better? If so, I have a nice bear-ridden town in New Hampshire you might like to move to.
Regulations are exactly how you deal with negative externalities.The EPA makes corporations pay for reducing pollution and cleanup. Why do you think corporations target EPA so much? Because EPA costs them money. Never hear any corporations whining about that free taxpayer-funded geological data coming out of USGS
I like clean water, good weather forecasts, and I want to fix the bridges.
Hahaha, thank you I needed that laugh
I can feel the sneeze being restrained here
Oh great, now I’m over here googling pictures of various owl feet 😂
Given what I’ve seen, I’m also gonna go with my neighborhood buddy, GHO
What an adorable perfect family 🥰
Yep! Over a billion years old and a major feature on Pangaea.
I knew it was West Virginia.
This is not climate change, y’all. The Appalachians are an eroding mountain range. The town where my sister lives is in a constant battle to keep the roads from falling into the adjacent creek beds. It’s just an absurdly difficult geography to build on.
Nice! Thank you
Ooooh, must be someone from an instance I don’t federate with because I don’t see another comment on this thread. Lemmy is weird
Aww, owl kissy faces 💕
And turns out they mate for life, so that’s an owl married couple.
“the small animals can cool their internal temperature by 10°C to 30°C. This slows their metabolism by as much as 95% and protects them from starvation”
Holy crap, that’s insane!
Creepy freakazoid under cute floofy camouflage? Yep, that checks out