"chris there's no birds on the pond today it's mostly ice" that's quitter talk, i tell em, assembling my scope - ThreadSky

chrisdeleon.bsky.social • 49 days ago

"chris there's no birds on the pond today it's mostly ice" that's quitter talk, i tell em, assembling my scope

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austernotus.bsky.social•49 days ago

I love it, great quality for such a far away birb!

Do you have any photos of using it for stargazing?

chrisdeleon.bsky.social•49 days ago

austernotus.bsky.social•49 days ago

Hell yeah! Looks amazing.

I got a pair of Cometron 7 x 50 binoculars since we live in a low-light area and it's awesome.

But one day, I'll make the switch to a telescope!

chrisdeleon.bsky.social•49 days ago

question for people who know more about birds than me: is that possibly a bald eagle child

elizmcmahill.bsky.social•49 days ago

Haha I was gonna ask if you knew. My gut says osprey or eagle youth, but I honestly can't tell. Face looks very osprey to me though...

elizmcmahill.bsky.social•49 days ago

But looking it up they're migratory?? so probably not...

chrisdeleon.bsky.social•49 days ago

there have been multiple bald eagle spottings lately around this pond, also and more importantly the idea it's a child one appeals to my working theory that all birds are babies (except, my usual disclaimer, owls are born immediately old as dirt)

fizzybuzzybeezy.bsky.social•49 days ago

Old and wise … don’t forget wise!

evogd.bsky.social•49 days ago

We miss our local ducks geese and swans (literally doorstep). It's rough going from seeing & feeding them every day to nothing. Looking forward to them coming back!

kblack.bsky.social•49 days ago

Sent this to my dad who I trust for all things birds/nature, and he said the beak pins it as an eagle but he couldn't make a full determination beyond that as well as juvie vs. adult

chrisdeleon.bsky.social•49 days ago

thanks! guess of juvenile is just from seeing photos recently of ones nearby with the white heads

kblack.bsky.social•49 days ago

I just learned doing some reading that bald eagles don't get their 'white patch'/'piebald' until they 5 years old, that's crazy. also learned that juvenile bald eagles feathers don't cover their entire leg (which it sort of looks like here), where as golden eagles do have feathers all the way down

kblack.bsky.social•49 days ago

those 2 things make me lean juvie bald eagle.

I looked here: https://birdwatchinghq.com/eagles-in-massachusetts/

darkfry.bsky.social•49 days ago

Is there some sort of gamedev -> birdwatching pipeline?

chrisdeleon.bsky.social•49 days ago

every Friday night I play Isonzo with local indie developers where my class is either mountaineer assembling periscopes or officer with binoculars spotting and tagging people for snipers on our team, so kinda

ashharman.com•49 days ago

That's a beautiful picture of Jupiter!

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