and PS: my 2025 Extremely Accurate Birds calendar is out now! Tasteful, accurate, and the perfect gift for any bird lover like me — or great as a white elephant gift! Many seem shocked these are illustrations and *not* photos!
I'm so glad I found you here! I kept looking every few days, but I think I was spelling your name wrong. Also, I just ordered my Extremely Accurate Bird calendar for the third year in a row! It ain't Christmas without it!
Earlier this year I was clearing some garbage from our lawn and found a dead mockingbird and was freaking out for about ten seconds when a crow grabbed it and flew away. Birds are psychopaths.
Now do one with "soothing evening crickets" but every cricket chirp is translated as "let's fuck" "let's fuck" "let's fuck" and there are 200 of them in your back yard
I really needed this laugh, guffaw, giggle, chuckle. If I had been sipping my coffee and read this, I would have had coffee shooting out my nose. I'm a good crowd.
Had a finch nest outside my window. Watched babies hatch and grow. Day before fledging, crow ate them. I removed platform nest had been on. Next year same crow came a lookin, was visibly disappointed.
Funny. Still sick, but yes. Still funny. Omg to the next bird filled tune listen to. I won't be able to stop thinking. Maybe it's her car keys that have gone missing, crossed fingers.
Ravens are merciless. I caught one pecking a joey's eyes that was still into the dead mother's pouch. Poor thing was extremely distressed as we got it out.
They have their place of course but it's always a bit gross the mess they make of road kill. Sadly a lot of it where I live and it is baby season so always good to check for any survivor in the pouch. Eyes gone, guts pulled out. Just have to wrinkle your nose and quickly do the check-up.
😂 Circle of life in my rural area.We have bird feeders off two story deck for years. Birds happy. Recently a cat has been showing up on deck. Birds are high up though. We also have coyotes and hawks that hang around. 🤪
This cartoon is not only brilliant on its own, but a perfect commentary on our national political debacle: Trump voters are the clueless listener not understanding that what they find soothing to hear is actually the sound of death & destruction.
So funny! It reminds me the often spoke comment that people wish they knew what their dog was thinking/saying. We perhaps should be grateful for our limited canine/human communications.
Once a bird bashed into our living room window. Then I heard a bird crying out. I went to look and the baby bird was the one who hit the window. I assume the parent was either worried or calling the baby a dumb@ss. I checked on baby and it was breathing so I told parent they’d be ok. They were.
I've actually watched this happen! A saw a crow eyeing up a tree, flew in, lots of commotion, flew out with something squabbling, then silence as it ate a chick. 😭
There's times I forget these are modern day dinosaurs
There’s a wonderful bit in one of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide books where all the birds want to talk about is power to weight ratios and other boring technical aviation things.
Haha! See also such hits as:
* Hey you! You're in my territory!
* Hey! Some jerk's in our territory!
* I'm a hungry, hungry bird
And
*Hey come over here! That lady who feeds us is approaching!
This reminds me of that Far Side cartoon of the little girl skipping through the forest surrounded by birdsong which Larson translated into things such as “You wanna piece of me?!”
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I'm trying my hardest not to laugh, but this is way too good not to
And i'm like "not if you're a dog and you have to deal with the hierarchy"
Good one!
Bird’s favourite meals are other birds
I wondered why the Northern Flickers were so skittish at my feeders until a family of Merlins left their bones and feathers on my roof 💔
I thought neighbours were throwing chicken bones into my yard 🥹
More, please.
Gold
There's times I forget these are modern day dinosaurs
* Hey you! You're in my territory!
* Hey! Some jerk's in our territory!
* I'm a hungry, hungry bird
And
*Hey come over here! That lady who feeds us is approaching!
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