Snowy kids go through a few color changes growing up. This awkward middle stage may just be my favorite.

I have no idea if it’s a guy or gal owl, but they’re way, they are working it!

Happy Valentine’s to you, as well, our champion of animal posting! 🦉❤️

Owls are masters in the dirty looks department.

I’ve caught a few owls by surprise and their glares almost could have erased me from existence!

Sorry for being presumptuous. 😔

Interesting. We don’t have oleander near me, but Wikipedia said some is grown along the Gulf Coast and California.

It sounds almost the opposite of this glue trap tree, as oleander seems poisonous to nearly everything but birds, and the sap will give you a rash.

We might have to start c/plantsaremetal if we keep finding these crazy murder plants. 😆

One of my favorite seasonal treats!

I was hooked from the very beginning. I started with an ebook of Guards, Guards, then my 3 rabies shot appointments were so far away, on the first I listened to audiobooks of Mort and Equal Rites, and at that point I just went to the beginning and have been working my way through.

I don’t know if I could pick a favorite since they’re all quite different. Reaper Man is probably the one I spend the most time thinking about, as I really like the portrayal of Death in Discworld. He is doing a service, and although not all are grateful for it, we get numerous opportunities to see what happens when that service is interrupted. I think the Disc also has a very generous policy in the afterlife from what I’ve seen so far, where it usually seems to be up to one’s self where you go when Death comes for you. Plus the creation of the Death of Rats has been a surprising bit of fun!

Lol yes!

This was an older story (April 2025) but I didn’t see any updates. This was probably a tense procedure for everyone, since they don’t want to damage any feathers. If they had to regrow, little Ru could be stuck there for months until they molted.

At my clinic, they said the glue traps weren’t really that bad since they had something that worked really well de-sticking animals rapidly and painlessly, so hopefully they have something that works equally well on tree-goop!

Oh shoot, I saw their comment pop up, I hoped to get back to my desk and warn them not to call NZ Australia, but I didn’t make it in time.

Some of you Kiwis gave me a rough time just for saying you were “close to Australia” geographically and I was given all the distances and all that, so I learned my lesson quickly! 😅

That is the one!

Coincidentally, this week I just started Feet of Clay with the College of Heralds explaining the heraldry in the coat of arms. I’ve seen it a bunch of times, so it is nice having the bits explained.

You are probably one of the people that finally got me to check out Discworld, and while it never seemed approachable because of the number of books, I can hardly believe I’m on book 19 since October! Almost half through.

“This is not a nap you wish to disturb…”

/waves foot

I had to double and check my spelling when I made the post from making the pun so much. It kept looking like it was wrong. 😊

They’re in my top tier of tiny owls!

From what I can make out, it looks like the bare handed person is lifting a wing, but this poor Ruru was a mess! 🫣

Oh, thank you for making me think I should have added a link about the tree itself!

It sounds like a huge glue trap, which cause much the same attractive hazard for birds of prey.

Nature can be pretty crazy!