A Cheerful-Sparrow Feathursday
Among the most cheerful birds in our neighborhood are the common House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) and the Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). I wake up every morning with the House Sparrows on my porch telling me to chirrup! And as I walk to work, the Juncos flitting about close to the ground, with their white tail bars and their tiny chipping calls, just starts the day off right.
Both are sparrows, but the House Sparrow, a year-long resident here, is an Old World sparrow (family Passeridae), introduced into North America in the 1850s.The Junco is an indigenous New World sparrow (family Passerellidae). They breed much further north in summer, and while they do winter in our region, in Milwaukee I tend to see them only in spring and fall as they move through. For me, they are harbingers of the changing seasons.
The images shown here are from a 1930 painting by American nature artist Walter Alois Weber reproduced in Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934. The volume includes 92 color plates by five wildlife artists illustrating 295 North American species.
The two birds in the upper left of this plate are male breeding adult and fall immature male Juncos; in the upper right are male and female House Sparrows; at bottom on the ground are female breeding adult and juvenile Juncos.
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SAS Rogue heroes: X-Men au
For a while now @rosescruensixxam and I have been working on an X-Men au and here are part 1 out of 3 planned posts, the rest will come soon enough.
This is everyone’s powers, we TRIED to do the characters justice but at least we had fun while doing it!
DAVID STIRLING: Power bestowal and augmentation, disintegration
PADDY MAYNE: Metal claw growth, Superhuman Durability, Adaptive Reflexes, Superhuman Marksmanship, Impenetrable Skin, life force absorption (alias Mad Dog)
JOCK LEWES: Energy Manipulation, Energy Blasts, Molecular Acceleration, Superhuman Durability, (alias Oppenheimer?)
JOHNNY COOPER: Slowed down aging, superhuman reflexes, super leaping, superhuman speed, wall crawling, superhuman agility( he is basically Nightcrawler) (alias Sparrow( from “The Sparrow from Minsk”) nobody is gonna get this)
AUGUSTIN JORDAN: Life Force Absorption and conduction, blood bending, Adaptive Evolution/ Immortality, Superhuman Marksmanship, (alias Vampire/Twilight haha)
MIKE SADLER: Wolf transformation, shapeshifting, Superhuman Durability, super acute senses, razor sharp teeth (alias Coyote idk)
REGGIE SEEKINGS: Mutant tattoos includes (making tattoos come to life) tactile hypnosis, superhuman durability ( more will be added)
EVE MANSOUR: Chronoskimming, mind reading, some ice-powers cause she is cool all the time
BILL FRASER: Pyrokinesis, solar form, solar absorption, flight, wing growth/wing blades (alias Icarus( coolest name ever)
DAVID KERSHAW: Animal manipulation, animal empathy (alias Kitten?)
EOIN MCGONIGAL: Weather Control( ironic we know), lightning travel, cyclone spinning, aerokinesis, flight
GEORGES BERGÈ: Hydrokinesis (alias Wave, Riptide, Crescent( like the moon)?)
ARNDRÈ ZIRNHELD: Illusion generation, mind/physical control (alias Vision?)
PAT RILEY: X-Factor Detection, Telepathy, Force Field Generation (alias Shield?)
JIM ALMONDS: Healing factor, (alias Nurse?)
MARC HALÈVY: Self detonation, shockwaves (alias Grenade? pull the pin and throw me where the enemy is most numerous)
HERBERT BRUCKNER: Invisibility, shapeshifting, self duplication
WALTER ESSNER: Electrokinesis, technopathy( if frying phone batteries count), lightning travel?( eventually)
(alias Surge? something like that, I can imagine someone at the school calling Walter “Sparky” in a joking way not knowing about his past( part of a fic we wrote) and the guy just tranformes into that ptsd war dog meme)
I AM SO SORRY HAHAHA
THAT MEME MADE ME CHOKE ON MY FOOD LMAO, that is what im here to do, kinda
@elkro @just-barrow @onyxsboxes @adowbaldwin @invisiblegargoyl @booksoncanvas @bachaboska @kuro-anko @snitling @fergusfraserapologist @akatsuki-rin @rosescruensixxam @queerevolutionaries @cloudyfacewithjam I think that was everyone, get over here guys!
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A Cardinalidae Feathursday
The Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus) in our neighborhood have just been chattering away this early summer. The call of the Cardinal is quite distinctive, but we often confuse the call of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak with that of the American Robin. Some say the Grosbeak sounds like a Robin that has had better music lessons, but we have a hard time telling them apart. What do you think?
Both are members of the family Cardinalidae. The only other species in that family that lives in our area (that we know of) is the Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), which also sounds remarkably like a Robin, but hoarser. The images shown here are from a 1930 painting by American nature artist Walter Alois Weber reproduced in Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts and published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934. The volume includes 92 color plates by five wildlife artists illustrating 295 North American species.
The three birds in the upper left of this plate are winter male, female, and male nestling Rose-breasted Grosbeaks; in the upper right are a fully adult breeding male and first-year breeding male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks; at bottom are adult female and male Cardinals.
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SAS Rogue Heroes Daemons AU
Hello, I am here to once again encourage SAS: Rogue Heroes brain rot with yet another au (help I've fallen down the rabbit hole)
David Stirling - Cuckoo (adaptable, dreaming, foolishness, insanity, insecurity)
Paddy Mayne - Tiger (strength, power, aggressiveness, leadership, courage, intelligence, passion, stealth, solitary, bringer of death and destruction)
Eoin McGonigal - Spider (patience, creativity, sensitivity, protection, wisdom)
(I can't stand spiders I'm afraid - arachnophobic - so no picture here, sorry)
Jock Lewes - Beaver (determined, visionary, defensive, inventor, fantasizer)
Eve Mansour - Serval (independence, self-reliance, and self-interest for the sake of survival)
Mike Sadler - Armadillo Girdled Lizard (adaptability, instinct, quick-witted, sensitivity)
Reg Seeking - Honey badger (strength, fierceness, aggressive, endurance, survival, territorial, possessive)
Johnny Cooper - Otter (playful, mischievous, kindness, happiness, luck, loyalty, and adaptability) (thanks to @just-barrow for this)
Bill Fraser - Spotted hyena (loyal, courageous, social but also solitary, witty, smart, hunters rather than scavengers, territorial)
Dave Kershaw - Ring-tailed Lemur (playful, kindness, happiness, social, leisure, alert) (credit to @rosescruensixxam for saying that Dave's lemur would be like King Julian - a sassy mf)
Pat Riley - Red squirrel (playful, mischievous, social, passionate, trust, hardworking, resourcefulness)
Jim Almonds - Hare (courage, prosperity, rebirth, change, vigour, aggressiveness, cleverness, love, sensitivity)
Augustin Jordan - Great horned owl (wisdom, strength, fearless, decisive, freedom, stealth, protection) (thanks to @rosescruensixxam for helping me decide)
André Zirnheld - Peregrine Falcon (fearless, authoritative, goal-oriented, freedom, intelligence, victory, power, speed) (thanks to @rosescruensixxam for helping me decide)
George Bergé - Lioness (Pride, courage, power, natural-born leaders, authority, dignity, wisdom, fiery)
Dudley Wrangel Clarke - Chameleon (adaptability, change, deception, intuition, transformation)
Dr Gamal - Hummingbird (flexibility, healing, ability, unique, joy, enjoyment of life)
Walter Essner - Doberman pinscher (alert, fearless, loyal, aggressive, impulsive, social, self-protection, misunderstood) (thanks to @wearebackbagels for helping with Essner)
Herbert Bruckner - Common European Viper (impulsive, power, shrewdness, rebirth, deception, mistrust, temptation, death and evil) (credit to @wearebackbagels for this brilliant suggestion)
General Auchinleck has a golden monkey daemon (like Marisa Coulter), and General Ritchie has a horse (don't ask me what kind, I don't know horses)
And that's about as far as I've gotten, so please, come yell ideas at me in the comments bc I'm sorta stuck for everyone else
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