Another Favourite Of This Year, The Oystercatcher Who Likes To Be At The Lake In The Middle Of The City.

Cedar waxwing … Trap Pond State Park, Laurel, Delaware … 11/6/21

Eurasian eagle-owl hiding

📷: Ossi Saarinen

Corona Borealis 🌌

Trying to draw more of my other favorite gods, back to the time of Dionysus and his newly wedded Ariadne, again, setting to flew somewhere where the sun doesn’t set for their early honeymoon vacation; after sweet kisses that tasted of wine, honey and mead, and turning all of their wedding gifts into stars and constellations.

For the closeups shots, Dionysus’s jewelries and necklaces were based on both Mesopotamian, Egyptian and earlier Minoan Greek samples; since there are a few myths that he wandering to all over West Asia and some parts of India to teaching the world about wine making and its fermentation. While most of Ariadne’s clothings were based on murals of Minoan women and jewelries that were found in the ancient cities of Akrotiri and Heraklion in Thera. (Now near modern day Santorini.)

On the topic of owl coloration though, lets have some appreciation for the variation of color found in great horned owls.

(All images are from the Macaulay library run by ebird.)

This is only scratching the surface of variance of this bird as well.

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The fan bearing Crowned Pigeon looks majestic.

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“Taking care of this owl was a hoot”

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Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops), from a banding. Jerusalem Bird Observatory (JBO). 11.11.21

not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.