After several weeks (well, years) of work my dissertation has been submitted to my committee. No telling what they’ll say, but while I sweat that out I think it’s only fair that you grapple with your own crow struggles. In other words... #CrowOrNo is officially back!
With it being 90* here in Seattle, I think this rather hot bird is a fitting photo for today’s #CrowOrNo. The question is...is it a #HotCrow or a #HotNo? Answer at 5:30PST
Wooohoo thanks for playing everyone! This week’s #CrowOrNo is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁a crow!!! A carrion crow to be precise.
For those that guessed raven, I FEEL YOU. I can easily see myself jumping to raven as well. Those darn carrion crows are truly tricky with those hackly throat feathers. Here’s another carrion crow example.
And at this angle you don’t have the bill to help inform your decision. You can read through the thread to see the tips others used, but I kinda think this photo is one of those nasty gut based challenges.
Thanks to @Corvid_Isle for sharing this photo with me. Hope everyone enjoyed this week’s challenge!
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For new followers/crow fans, both crows and ravens have blue eyes as babies. It transitions to the adult brown around 3-4 months. Some species OTOH, have brown eyes that turn blue!
Here’s the thing about red squirrels...I dig their whole vibe. Here’s a thread of me just being delighted about them.
An explanation of their cache sites or middens. FYI I totally blanked on the word “scales” (you can tell by the long pause) but I meant to say scales not leaves.
My favorite midden yet!!! BTW did you know they can chatter without stopping for up to an hour?!
It’s Wednesday, right? For sure? I’m not falling for this “it’s Wednesday, but not really” nonesense again today.
Ok well since it is actually a Wednesday...let’s get our #CrowOrNo on! New players: just tell me if at least one of these birds is a crow or not before 5:30ish PST. After that I post the answer and ID tips. Good luck!
You folks ready for your #CrowOrNo answer? The bird on the right is not a crow, it’s a raven! But the bird on the left is...
These responses make me want to crawl under a rock. Honestly I don’t even know what I want to do which is terrifying enough, but add the “it took 5 years and 100+ applications” to the mix and it feels completely fucking hopeless.
Do I even want to stay in academia? IDK! I can’t imagine not doing researching but at the same time academia makes me so unhappy sometimes. And maybe I just want to stay in research because it’s the only life I’ve known.
Then there’s the whole issue of uprooting my whole life again and again over the next several years to chase something I don’t even know if I want. How do people with families swing that? Like they obviously do but...how?
This is a bleeding tooth fungus or Hydnellum peckii. Despite their deadly appearance these mushrooms are nontoxic, though they’re very bitter and bad to eat.
They are also key players in healthy forests because they are symbiotic with the trees around them, exchanging nutrients and fixed CO2. Kind of like some lichen species this fungus can indicate polluted or unhealthy forests.