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A female cardinal tries to stay warm on a bitterly cold day.

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The Orange Man won’t stop trying to seduce me.

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Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), peering from the entrance to a nest box, family Hirundinidae, found across most of North America

photograph by em_photography22

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Hello good birbs! Since Twitter is getting wacky I'm gonna try out Tumblr again! :)

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Happy holidays everyone ❤️

It’s especially hard during the holidays as Smidgen has been such a big part but I wanted to do something to remember him and Bibi who were love at first sight partners from day 1

#lovebird #smidgen #bibi #lovebirds #smidgenbibi

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A female cardinal says hello.

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Fancy hat

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Once the birds had learned how to initiate video interactions, the second phase of the experiment could begin. In this “open call” period, the 15 participating birds could make calls freely; they also got to choose which bird to dial up. Over the next two months, pet parrots made 147 deliberate video calls to other birds. Their owners took detailed notes about the calls and recorded more than 1,000 hours of video footage that the researchers analyzed.

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Smidgen leaves no bell unturned

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The sine cosine tangent = birb

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Smidgen just wants to be hanging out and looks forward to the time when we’d pick him up.

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Farewell for now my Smidgen

Smidgen was laid to rest on February 2, 2023. As big of a loss this is, I am so thankful for having this angel in my life. A lovely sweet presence that wanted whatever time we had but was never imposing. Protective of his kind, loyal, joyful and always regal. He has helped me through many of life’s changes and is very close to my heart. I know he is always with me but the distance I feel is unbearable at times. I have to trust him in God’s hands now and focus on how happy and beautiful he was. Being the loving creature that he is, he kissed me twice making the kissing sound twice in his last moments. I will hold on to that knowing how much he loved us and how he seemed to be saying it was ok to let him go.

Smidgen ❤️ Feb 14, 2014 - Feb 2, 2023

Will keep this blog alive with his pictures that I didn’t get round to posting

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Birds are Zebra finches.

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Just doing some crunches

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