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Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) always seemed a poor fit in the noble eagle hierarchy, a notion supported by the fact that they're frequently dumb enough to land in a sparrowhawk trapper's net.
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some things don't change.
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3rd calendar-year eagles are a pain. In most field conditions, they'd be sensibly identified as 2nd calendar-year individuals (i.e., juvenile birds after their first winter), as the evident moult can be subtle especially when compounded by a year's wear & tear on otherwise first generation feathers.
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@kfist I arrived early this year hoping to nab some crane migration and also determine how early eagles started moving. cranes migration was a disappointment, but it does seem that adult eastern imperial and steppe eagle do migrate earlier here than we realised. unexpectedly, hen harrier (formerly conspecific with northern harrier) ended up being terrific, with numbers you'd never normally encounter in europe today. So far been a pretty nice way to spend "lockdown".
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@kfist
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I've waxed poetic about the luminous eyes of snake eagles before.
(Sadly my shitty field photos don't really do them justice.)
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@mangeurdenuage this Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) was prowling a bush almost directly in front of me. It took a rather long time to realise I was there.
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:removekebab:
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context is everything.
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@sim I'm a fan of swallowtails.
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some of the people I respect the most here are generous in spreading good feels but have no compunction in kicking in teeth on occasions when someone shows themselves to be an irredeemable POS. imo it's a sign of actual strength that knows gentleness without also being meek.
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@Ocean22
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@tibike @roka >not understanding the optimisations that your computer performs for you
>not caring to learn
>hating on languages that aren't seen as ticket to future high-paying jobs
>skipping fundamentals
>again, not caring to learn
if anything, I see all this as indication the industry is filled with people who don't belong there.
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reminder that online identities are bullshit.
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@Othinus @Mogsie @karolat I'm guess I'm still optimistic than one can make their mark on the world, but only through living your own life the best way you can (which, in the end, is the only thing you have any real control over.)
taking on the world's burdens (rather than making a project of particular problems you're in a position to solve) effectively deprives one of their own sense of self imo, and I'll posit that taking on some trendy cause célèbre is often a substitute for that sense of self. when said people's confidence is shaken, they often come away realising that they are largely barren; their identify was inextricable from their "mission". among other things, I'll suggest this is partly why depression and suicide is so rampant among "activist" types.
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@lnxw48a1 or, the session times out (expiring the cart), so I end up forgetting to put something in I had included the first time around.
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seriously. stop holding out hopes that the fediverse will morph into the tweeter replacement you always dreamed of, or that tweeter will become a place habitable by flesh & blood personas once more.
enjoy the warp and weft of this place, embrace its idiosyncrasies, and make yourself at home.
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