Birb For Your Day

Season's Greetings to all...

A Robin in Ancient Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor.

Engineering in action | source

Mortal: okay so whats the hottest thing your partner has ever done on a date

Aphrodite, not even looking up from her phone: me

Canadian engineering team Aerovelo just broke their own world record in the Eta, a recumbent bicycle fitted with a windowless, egg-like shell. Most of the incredibly efficient machine is built of carbon fiber. The engine is muscle, sweat and sinew – engineer Todd Reichert.

I’ve covered Aerovelo’s efforts before: in 2012, they were racing to build a human powered helicopter. They succeeded in 2013.

Here’s a video I made about their competitors, a team of graduate students and undergrads from the University of Maryland.

“After 130 years of evading scientists and photographers, the minuscule and ultra-rare South Philippine dwarf kingfisher has finally been photographed”

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Well, it's December first, and I've just finished setting up and decorating my Christmas tree. There are still a good number of empty branches, but it's got plenty of string lights to make up for it.

Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)

© Vilijandas Bagdonavičius

“Nothing comes between Hudson and his ball”

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Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)

© Gerd Schön

Juvenile mourning dove … Delaware backyard … 4/28/22

first baby of the year! <3