It is a textbook perfect grumpy face.

In this photo, the lighting gives most of the owl some resemblance to the White Faced Owl, other than the actual face, though it does have some black border, so I can see you being a fan of this owl.

We’d all be going around with big old school anime heads 😄

I see it! 🍍

You are right, I completely forgot about Book Club! Shame on me. 😮

I didn’t get it either, but it looks like it’s about how artists usually don’t draw subjects from weird angles like this. All the silly drawings on the bottom are practice by one artist on drawing Frieren from this unusual angle.

The top right image, I’m assuming, is official art from the anime showing what the show’s accurate perspective looks like.

It probably had the most charming little smile until it got blasted by that light out of nowhere!

😁 📸 😠

I prefer mine in a Hemingway Daiquiri.

• 2 ounces white rum

• 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice

• 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed grapefruit juice

• 1/2 ounce maraschino liqueur

Shake with ice and strain.

“You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry…” 😉

Thanks for reminding me of this! With having reached my limits with US politics, I’ve dropped all my podcasts for the last few months so I haven’t heard Margaret for a while now.

Margaret is great on every topic she covers, but as someone who isn’t trans, I feel she’s really helped me to have a better understanding about the internal and external pressures surrounding the subject matter. I’m sorry I still can’t really verbalize any of my feelings on it, but I’d say to anyone thinking that writing about trans people is written only for trans people, I don’t find this to be the case with any of Margaret’s work. I’ve never had the physical sensation of someone unlocking parts of my mind so frequently to things it couldn’t grasp before.

I’ve been wanting to find something to break up my power run of reading Discworld for the first time, and I think this would be a great book to do that with.

That bird had an amazing journey! 😮

I’ve covered Saw Whet fat reserves once before, they can lose up to 20% body weight in a single day of migration.

The why their legs don’t freeze off I just covered recently, and that was a fun one for me because I hadn’t known the answer to that one. Check that out here.

I try to keep in mind you all aren’t here for “owl school” and keep it brief, but I also want to give enough to hook you into it. But I’ll always link my sources so it’s all there for anyone who wants it!

The one owl discovery I shared was such a great story. I think it was the guy just heard a bird around he’d never heard before and chased it until he found it, and it was a brand new owl!

I know for some others I’ve shared some details and photos of their biomes. Ones like the Cloud Forest Pygmy and the Chaco Owl gave mystical sounding names, and while these aren’t hard to encounter (I’ve seen a Chaco Owl!) their names aren’t so obvious to most of us because they’re named after where they’re from.

I did like you said and said where the Cloud Forest and the Chaco Plateau were and talked about what type of climate and elevation they were and added some photos so people could visualize it.

I even enjoy doing that for some of the historic looking European places or spots in the Southwest USA since even those of us that are American or European haven’t seen many of these spots. Glad to know you all are enjoying that as well.

This is one of the baby owls I got to work with last year. It’s the only time I caught one sleeping like that since they grow up so fast.

I find them very handsome!

They’re high up in the list of owls I want to meet. I was close this year, but it didn’t work out.

The photos make it look like a movie set. It doesn’t look anywhere near 1400 years old. They must have been so excited to find a place like this.

That is amazing! Can’t wait to get some more photos of that. Thank you so much for tagging me.

In the meanwhile, there’s someone here that may enjoy this even more than me!

@MisterNeon@lemmy.world

I have been thinking I need to throw in some basic beginner level facts to get our new members caught up. I will try to get on that!

You do a lot of posting… Is the fact more exciting used as the post title, or in the body after a briefer, catchy title?

There have been a few owls recently discovered or that have become unique species, like the spectacled owl from Brazil that was just upgraded to its own species the other week. I love covering those, since there is stuff to talk about.

Some of the rare species are in very remote places where not many people can photograph or study them, and I kinda feel bad that the surprise of some of the owls falls flat right away.

Like: here’s this exciting thing you’ve never heard of! Now let me tell you it’s been spotted 3 times over 100 years, and we think it probably eats beetles, the end.

In cases where nobody really knows anything, what else would you enjoy hearing about? The remote island or forest where it lives? Its possible closest relative? The person who is credited for discovering it?

To myself, I feel like I just end up saying this is a Scops Owl or Boobook, but a slightly different color, so I’m not sure how to sell it as something exciting if I don’t have any unique things to highlight.

I like when people are easy to please. 😁

A wise guy? I got your owls right here!

I do too! I get they’re cute and amazing on the outside, but I like learning more about what it must feel like to be an owl.

My problem with techy posts cuts 2 ways. They take a long time to do, since I have to dig to find articles, they don’t often just pop up since this stuff is super niche, and then I have to break it down a lot so I can understand it. Then I also feel limited when I can share this stuff here, since it’s going to either be a long post or a technical post, and I don’t know if that is just boring to too many of you or if you just don’t time to read something that in truth through most of the week and then never get back to it, but they get a low vote most times, and it makes me feel like that’s not time well spent.

I try to post them Friday through Sunday when I assume you have more time to read with more concentration. Is this good for you guys?

I have a few detailed documents and research papers bookmarked. I have a big document about Boreal Owls, and I know I have a study about Powerful Owls learning how to cross the road, basically starting to learn how to deal with cats.