“You’re not eating that. No really. Look at my eyes. You’re not going to eat what’s clearly meant for me and possibly for Other Cat. I mean, they can have whatever I choose not to eat.”
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This one is a blue jay dude
Bluebird dude is smaller, no crest, probably rare in the Keys
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I kinda wondered about the lack of crest. a juvenile, maybe? the markings are all there, long tail, white breast. no red or peach at the throat, so I don’t think it’s an eastern. we have mockingbirds also, but they don’t have the blue wings and are a bit slighter overall. if anyone can ID bluejay dude from this crappy pic, let me know.
I am but an amateur birder, my thing is ID’ing the fish species I find out on the reef.
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I think it’s just flattened.
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Cool! we used to have gopher tortoises up in Pasco County (FL) on mum’s place. In fact, her 9 acre plot was a sanctuary for the critters, where “rescued” tortoises were brought so that Coal-Rolling Bubba would not (intentionally) run them over out on Hwy 41. There were 11 at one point, burrowed in all across the place. I used to flag the burrows so that the mowers would be able to avoid them.
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My parents had a gopher tortoise for years (Mona’s a Sulcata). They lived in AR and found it at a State Park there, and knew enough to know that it had obviously been picked up by someone on vacation and then dumped there, to they rescued it (it would not have survived the winter).
Apparently if you feed them certain things, or a certain amount, they won’t burrow, because he never did, which was good. In their native habitat, though, their burrows are critical to gulf coast:
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yeah! mum’s was a very sandy soil (sinkholes!) and there was a sand and limestone mine adjacent to her property. when they would blast, it felt like a gotdamn eathquake. busted her well, cracked walls and floors. she sold and moved down here where I live. I will miss the wildlife there. deer, sandhill cranes, foxes and more. very rural. damn shame the mine f’d it up. Here’s an old pic of the cranes that would come up to the house to beg for corn:
cool birbs!
and the deer:
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I saw some videos of dogs meeting their masters after the explosion. Very happy moments.
I remember reading something, a long time ago, about some people rescuing animals lost after natural disasters in the United States like Hurricane Katrina and those tornadoes that plague several states.
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Aglais io AKA European peacock or peacock butterfly yesterday at University of Helsinki Botanical Garden Kaisaniemi.
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great catch!
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And so little fluff visible on the couch upholstery! Well done!
(looking ever so slightly sheepishly at my own furniture)
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Our cats valiantly try to solve this by simply removing the upholstery.
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That’s because it’s all in the corners of the room as little tumblefurs! 
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Caturrita (Myiopsitta monachus)
A parakeet parading across the lawn in front of the Sugar Loaf, a long time ago, before the world gone crazy with this pandemic.
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