Just climbed a fence to look at a dead heron. - ThreadSky

jeremybassetti.com•21 days ago

Is this what nature writing has come to?

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rsmythfreelance.bsky.social•21 days ago

Look they want 1500 words and I'm on a deadline, it's the dead heron or nothing.

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kamananui.bsky.social•21 days ago

Glad you found it before RFK Jr and his pet Brain Worm.

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nisaccom.bsky.social•21 days ago

It worked for Tim Birkhead. That's how he got to see Guy Fawkes's Turner's.

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nisaccom.bsky.social•21 days ago

Though Birkhead's mum had already commented, when the pictures were first published in 1988, that TB 'could do better' pictures of birds.

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rsmythfreelance.bsky.social•21 days ago

Ha! Excellent.

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nisaccom.bsky.social•15 days ago

You're not going to believe it but on Wed an exhibition opened at Turner's house. 'For the first time in almost 40 years rarely seen bird studies will form the star attraction of the first exhibition in a generation devoted to animals and birds painted by J.M.W. Turner.'
https://turnershouse.org/whats-on/

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nisaccom.bsky.social•15 days ago

Sadly, Tim Birkhead's mum won't be delivering any of the three lectures in the programme.

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hughespeg.bsky.social•22 days ago

:(

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lablit.bsky.social•21 days ago

yes, & what did it die of? Poison? Pollution? Accident?

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lablit.bsky.social•21 days ago

... bird flu?

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rsmythfreelance.bsky.social•21 days ago

Not sure! Mostly untouched, no obvious hazards nearby. Territorial dispute? Dunno.

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bingopajama.bsky.social•21 days ago

Bird flu. Guy on reddit lost two pairs of nesting GBH. Found dead but undamaged near their tree. Natural resources picked them up and said it was likely avian flu.

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rsmythfreelance.bsky.social•22 days ago

It's Friday night and I can do what I want.

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lablit.bsky.social•22 days ago

Ooh! I'd get its skull...

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lablit.bsky.social•22 days ago

The rhamphotheca - the horny park of the beak - is so remarkable in a heron...

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