Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 23°C, max - 38°C. 90% chance of no rain
HAPPY BIRD DAY!
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Not a bird contribution, sorry. But Mabel’s shenanigans this morning:
Her and her best mate at the dog park (which doubles as the local cricket ground) decided to play vigorous bitey face on the freshly painted red boundary lines. So now she’s pink. 🤦♀️
She’s very proud of her work though. I guess she’s just showing up for the Pink Test.
It’s gonna be a ripper day Mabel. 🏏💕
Gotta show support. Also I reckon Mabel would be a shoo-in for fielding on the boundaries. Might struggle to bat though - place her at 11 on the team?
I like recognising people’s pets. As soon as I saw the photos in my inbox, I didn’t need to read your username, it was just like “yep, that’s Mabel”
I still maintain Mabel is absolutely adorable
I’m going to nerd out for a sec:
There’s this guitar sound right. It’s a wall of distortion with an artificial reverb that’s used a lot in shoegaze/post rock.
I’ve been chasing it for almost 12 fucking years and couldn’t get it working because the distortion would overload the reverb and it turns into an absolute mess.
I figured it out yesterday. After so fucking long it finally works. The new reverb pedal is bought over xmas had a far higher headroom so wouldn’t distort with a high gain input.
Yaaaaaaay!
yaaaaaaay 🙂
Thank you!!! I figured it out last night so I couldn’t crank it loud. But today, after my decaf and breakfast, it’s getting absolutely cranked!!!
Siiiiick
It sounds so fucking cool. Like an ethereal wall of sound!
Thanks for all the messages. Squishes back to you all. 🖤
For bird day I wish to mention the stunningly beautiful Dracula Parrot, the covert as fuck Tawny Frogmouth, and the magestically lunatic Bin Chicken. Bakawkk MF!
Got back about 45 minutes ago, apartment was hooooot but could be worse, at least it was a bit cooler than the outside. AC blasting like a mf. Esky tipped on the back floor of the car the one time I didn’t wedge it securely, it had yoghurt in it… Luckily there was a spare floor mat on top of the floor (from moving house) and only that received a dribble of the stuff. Promptly washed it out. Could have been a lot, lot worse.
Time for my crackers and dip and maybe some tv. This was the view from the hut I stayed in. I miss nature outside my doorstep so much. I can’t wait to move out from here
That’s one gorgeous view outside that window.
Hopefully the aircon will take the edge off.
Welcome back!
That’s a spectacular view.
That’s my dream view. Away from the hussle and bustle of the world…
It was really something else. Here’s the view on the other side…
I’ve had trouble falling asleep without my phone (or some sort of distraction) for ages but over there I could just stare at nature until it went dark and continue to do so in the hut until I was ready to close the blinds. I haven’t been able to do this for years
That sounds like bliss! I’m desperately trying to get fully remote work so I can live out that way full time in a few years
Today was not the day to lock myself out of my house, and I probably won’t get access to the spare key until 10pm. It’s too hot for this. Second time this has happened in 5 years, the timing of this one hurts.
RIP. Of all days… Have you been able to hide in a shopping centre or something meanwhile?
Yeah, I’m at my local council gym/pool which is where I was heading on the way to locking myself out. It’s nice and cool here. I’ll get some dinner after to kill more time.
How you going?
I’m back inside my place! I was able to get the spare key a little earlier than expected thanks to the parentals being very accommodating, so I didn’t have to wait until 10pm thankfully.
Chilli patch update!
No loss (yet). Habs are about to flower. Thais are very slow to the party but fruit for longer.
cool, I like how the various chillies have different kind of leaves
From memory I think there are a few thousand different types which is crazy. Here there are two heh.
I’ve always loved how you always go for a couple of staple varieties that do really well regularly and I go “I want them all, more pretties!” and they do poorly.
This makes me so happy!
This is a flightless bird lol
She hasn’t worked out shadows but definitely understands reflections.
The shadows thing is getting nuts. 6am and is attacking the wall lol
Bird day: for most of my holiday I stayed in a hut that a lyrebird lived right out of. Every morning I’d get the multipack of birdsong waking me up. I’d tarry a while just to hear his full repertoire. It was beautiful.
I saw couples of lyrebirds casually strolling around the property and hopping off garden walls. Didn’t have my phone on me for the most part so didn’t take any photos.
I have to admit, lyrebirds are not spectacular to look at, unless male and dancing on their mound.
They’re on the upper side of mid. Not much colour ordinarily, but lovely tails and a fairly sizeable and mobile bird. One of the larger birds in forested inland areas aside from emus…
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It tastes pretty gross too, but irs great for killing off whatever is causing a sore throat.
Like the betadine gargle? I don’t think I’d gargle this stuff, it’s pretty gnarly…
I tried that once and immediately threw up. Disgusting
I love chicken
I finished off and submitted my assignment - which is about Red Wattlebirds!
Red Wattlebirds are suicidal maniacs. There’s a pair that nest in my street trees - they dive bomb their own reflections in my front windows. So far the windows have been winning but it’s only a matter of time.
I am not a fan. Not only are they dumb, they sound hideous, especially at 5am in the morning.
Red Wattlebirds
We have a fair few down here. Probably one of the more flighty / shy type of bird. Resident magpie is at war with them constantly. They’re not competing for food or space, just having a go at each other for sport / fun seemingly.
They can be quite aggressive. A few years ago I had a good crop of apricots on my tree which were the site of an ongoing battle between a group of wattlebirds and a group of lorikeets. It would get quite noisy. In the midst of it all there was one raven that would just fly in and grab a single apriocot every day and just ignore the ongoing war.
Emoji has been changed because it’s bird day!
My bird appreciation of the day is that dove that I thought was an owl (sorry bird peeps, I can’t remember the sub-species or whatever the breed categorisation is called). It’s been tricking me for YEARS into thinking it was some kind of broken owl. Cheeky bloody bugger
My favourite bird award goes to the magpie. Whatever sub-species we have in melbs. They can be aggressive, but they also have the capability of learning who is a friendly and doesn’t need a swoop. They’re remarkably smart for birds imo, and also fairly friendly once there’s a bit of a rapport. Love ya maggies!
(Yeah, I know bird day mostly seems to be cantered towards the yanks. But we have some very fine birds, too, and they deserve a bit of love as well!)
I had a lovely chat with a magpie today, they’re extremely friendly in my area. He was sitting on a low fence and I asked if he’d been in a fight because some of his neck feathers looked a bit shit, he seemed okay though.
I always stop and say hello to the magpies 😊
They’re good little mates. I absolutely adored watching them walk around the yard hunting worms. I know they aren’t the only birds that land in yards and waddle around, but in terms of flying birds in my part of Melbourne, they seem to be the only ones that routinely spent time in my front/back yard. They weren’t shy either. They didn’t like people getting too close, but they wouldn’t fly away upon seeing you, they’d just hop back a few steps, kinda like “ayy man, keep yo distance”
Yet another reason I love them. Can’t help anthropomorphising them - I do that too!
Yesterday I noticed that the Aussie version of The Office was out so I’m guessing the NDA isn’t applicable any more. But damn you Amazon Preview for making me suffer through a whole test episode of that just so that I could fill out the qualtrics survey demanding they never subject me to that trash ever again.
Hahah. It boggles my mind that anyone thought this was a good idea when we already turn out series like Utopia and Fisk.
Not a native bird but I like sparrows. They are so tiny and so brave.
For song I love blackbirds aka thrushes. They sing around sunset and it’s so lovely.
Sparrows are very cute. They are also quite clever. I once watched one at Southbank that had worked out exactly where to fly in front of the sensor to activate the doors into the food court.
now I like them even more 🙂
I’ve been feeding the birds on my balcony , a few sparrows will eat from my hand, one will hop on my arm or shoulder
and now the sparrows are back other birds have come back too, some wrens who like to hang with the sparrows , honey eaters, wattle birds, a few mynahs, currawongs, pigeons and doves
a whole eco system is back 🙂
and yeah. I’m feeding them, this is not the same as going to a pristine forest and feeding the local wildlife, this is a highly artificial environment and many are introduced birds , in a way they need humans
One of my favourite things about being on a holiday is feeling like I have the time to play games like Pokemon Go. And I feel like they’re little pixel souvenirs.
And thanks for the post, Baku!!
Glad you’re enjoying it, and thanks for the appreciation!
Thanks baku 🙂😘
You’re most welcome goonhoon
