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Sunday, April 20, 2025

tree balls, angry finch, and A I musk

Is that a tennis ball in the tree?  Oh,  my mistake,  the gold finches are passing through.  Difficult to photograph, jumpy and nervous and fluttering always, they are kind of crazy and always look pissed off.  The tree looks like  flashes of yellow  arrows are attacking it. 


Then in a flash they disperse ,  quickly and purposely, in a panic. From below a large bird flies up out of the yard and off into the great unknown! It could be a mallard or a hawk. I only see its bigness and its white underwing.  The goldfinches are not coming  back.

 This is a regular finch, our everyday guy- unhappy  about losing his spot on the feeder or something, who knows what his problem is. Could be angry about easter rabbits and dead guy coming back to life, reckoning if you die , stay dead- the rule of nature. Breaking the rules is not tolerated. 

Excuse me, little finch, this is umurka-  rules do not apply...

Dennis just read a thing about the orange tub declaring this a "religious nation" and by religious he does not mean Muslim, only bible banging christian white folk, Espiscopalians preferably- blond ones....The stupidity is spectacular these frightening days. 

 Finch has the absolute best expression of pissed-offed-ness'

 
 It has been that kind of day- rain, dark cold quiet- The sort of day when nothing settles, nothing makes sense - looking out at the birds comes as the only form of entertainment. 

-find a place , a chimney top  would do, to weather out the rain and the blues. That is our nothing day. Watching Rachel get jiggy on trump and musk- hilarious that some clever genius hacked into the cross walk buttons in Northern California with a A I voice of Musk saying ridiculous things about himself and his POS tesla's. 

If it works here is the link- Rachel Maddow.



 

24 comments:

  1. lucky you seeing the goldfinches. the finches here have red heads. the woodpeckers here must be in a wooing mood as they are obnoxiously loud. the crosswalk video what can I say other than the things they are saying really sound like something they would say!
    kirsten

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    1. the link is not complete but you can probably google the rest. Hacking into the crosswalk buttons is hilarious. We have a few red headed finches, they do not come around very often. The goldfinches show up and leave quickly. They have things to do!

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  2. That grey finch looks like a raptor, a pissed off raptor at that.

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    1. Tiny little dinosaur still has attitude from a long ago period.

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  3. Perfect expression on that bird. Someone should start a meme on that one.

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    1. His little scowl is permanent- not just a momentary flare of disdain /anger! he is stuck with that little face!

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  4. If you hadn't have said, I'd have sworn it was a tennis ball.

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    1. Round as round can be- yellow balls flitting and bouncing through the tree, manic!

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  5. Thanks for reminding me how much I love Rachel Maddow.

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    1. I do too, and I forget sometimes , having not watched MSNBC much since we dumped TV years ago.

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  6. That pissed off finch is the best. Or is it trying to look fierce? Either way, it's a do-not-fuck-with-me face.

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  7. Thank goodness for wildlife, birds, bees, flowers and trees.
    The pissed finch expresses what many of us feel today. No doubt about that.
    The crosswalk video reflects sad reality. Some genius makes it laughable.

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    1. If we all can maintain some humour , we may make it through this period of "up evil"...

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  8. You got some great close up shots of those birds. Well done!

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    1. The gulls wings are pretty, graceful, as gulls go...We have three that come by every day and park themselves on the deck railing.

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  9. I love the goldfinches -- hopefully the "hawk" (or whatever it was) didn't get any of them. Though I suppose he/she has to eat too.

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    1. That is what they say, everything has to eat except mayflies and deep sea jellyfish..The goldfinches look enticing- little butter balls! I would have one on my toast!

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  10. Well, that was fun.
    The goldfinches pass through here much earlier, before the boys really get their color.
    So we're a 'religious nation' now? Is there any part of the Constitution he has not/will not crap on?

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    1. Constitution? that old thing? Does not exist in orange land...Buried in his golf course/cemetery along with his battered first wife.

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  11. Oh, those finches! Sigh! I heard about the AI Musk -- loved it!

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    1. Clever tech! The goldfinches were active- overly so, for half a day and then they were gone. Big bird scared them!

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  12. I like Rachel Maddow. We were watching her this morning, commenting on the 50501 demonstrations.

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    1. About time corporate media picked up on the demonstrations!!

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