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Сто лет не был на кладбищах Александро-Невской лавры. Стало похуже, конечно. Везде какой-то бесконечный ремонт (даже в исторических зданиях ставят дурацкие пластиковые стеклопакеты) и закрытые двери. А вот и скворцы!
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🧵 I heard... SILENCE.

This past week here in #AuroraIllinois , the weather has been pleasant & warmer. In the past, this kind of weather would be full of life, coming awake.

I know most of the #songbirds have migrated and haven't returned yet, so I don't expect to hear them. But only last week, I was regularly seeing a LOT of #birds , and hearing lots of chirping. The bird food & bread scraps I often put out for them in the morning were always eaten before lunch.

In past years, the sky would have had lots of birds flying overhead in this first warmth. I would hear lots of chirping.

This whole day, I heard only SILENCE.

4 of the past 5 days, bird food was left uneaten. Bread scraps were only eaten by the nighttime animals.

Today, I only saw one lonely #sparrow, behaving abnormally by hiding in my flower pot, right next to my door-- and near me. None of his friends ever appeared.

I hope I'm mistaken. I hope this is not due to #BirdFlu .

Here's a lovely smile for you :-)

Bird interrupts David Attenborough | Attenborough's Paradise Birds - BBC

(1.5 minute narrated video with a beautiful bird. Subtitles like "laughter" and "music" are the bird showing off its loud sounds, LOL)
youtube.com/watch?v=2TJaNDBI87

youtube.com- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

I was going through some very old photos yesterday and found something exciting for tomorrow’s #Wrensday post.

As a happy reminder to the birding crew, I’m planning to boost all Wrensday content because I love this hashtag.

What’s Wrensday? Another genius hashtag Mastodonians came up with. We’re featuring photos of the many wrens across the world on Wednesdays. I hope you’ll participate.

A little under a year ago I bought a used #NikonZ7ii. And it’s mostly been a pain in the butt. #Mirrorless photography isn’t fun. Again dealing with soft images. Assumed lens problem so I put it on my old beloved D7200.

Nope. Lens is OK. So it’s the body or maybe my rough handling has messed up the FTZ adapter. Anyway, here’s a dumb invasive (but still pretty!) European Starling from my old trusty d7200. (Straight off camera and cropped. I don’t do much editing)

Hey, frozen and/or snowed in friends. It’s a hard time to be a bird out there.

If you can, your feathered friends need food, but more importantly they could use some unfrozen water. They can eat snow, but melting it lowers already low body temps and burns calories needed for survival.

BONUS: You’ll likely be the only game in town and get quite a show 🤩