Backyard and Beyond

Sure have been a lot of bugs around here on the blog this week…
So here’s a Chipping Sparrow family.
Parent with the red poll above. Two views of one of the fledglings. Was chipping away like mad, always a good sign this time of year that hungry birds are about demanding to be fed.
Here’s the other.

That was the shortest night, eh… but the days are get hotter. And speaking of hot –it’s comedy night at the Apocalypse — did you see how one of the coldest places on earth, northeastern Siberia, is now in an unprecedented heat wave? On top of everything else, the climate crisis is just getting worse.
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There were plenty of empty seats at Trump’s nuremberg rally in Tulsa yesterday. The Jonestown-style zombie cult celebrating the Greenwood pogrom of 1921 drew less than 20,000 klansmen, Q-psychopaths, fundamentalist suckers, and absolute dumbfucks, but millions will vote for Trump, so there’s no real difference between them.

“Here’s the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘slow the testing down please!'”