#look at those lovely birds!!!!

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[koszmarnybudyn]

They are creatures.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #my art #normal oak #link li wilson #taylor swift dndads #scary marlowe #im not doing the swiftli week cause i dont have time (literally procrastinating school stuff as im making this) but the angel/demon #thing gave me ideas and as such this was made #there is symbolism and thought here but also just shapes #so taylor has those little antena like his hat and hes a demon because of course and he has that thingy thats also his hat (and it has a #faint blue overlay because jodie/love as an anchor) and i borrowed the snmile from the nbdemon because its been on my mind and apart from #that hes just chuby and cute and fluffy #link is looongg and he has the most basic as to how i draw angels design i made his legs extra long cause soccer and i gave him orange #(Garfield+signature color) #and red (blood that is on his hands/his isssues/him not being as pure as he was once) and he has extra wings cause hes fast #i think he ended up looking kinda like those birds with the eyeliner (also his hands and feet being darkened #also allude to his “dirtied hands”) #theres normal whose a star because that's what i associate with him (more starfish looking because i wanted to give him dots to symbolise #acne and cause hes not goood at being an angel hes not an actual star his coloring make a teenie the teen T and the markings make him look #like hes wearing a tshirt he has little fire works that are suppose to be like cheerleader pompoms #scary is the most shapy one shes sharp and “edgy” i thing she ended up just slightly harpy like which i enjoy her not being fully colored is #because shes a shadow of her former self shes the least symetrical as well with the one wing and one eye #sooo yeah im a sucker for religious imagiery and symbolism #anyway i need to get to my actual work byeee

[rowrowronnie]

hiking time!!

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #team fortress two fanart #it all started with the heavy bucket hat and then spiraled from there #heavy comes super duper uber prepared for hikes and whatnot #him and medic go bird watching and medic gets pissed because there are No birds out #demo and soldier gossip the entire time but soldier doesn’t know how to gossip and just talks about america like it’s a person #‘yeah i heard scout stole a few a’ engy’s things as payback for hiding his bonk’ ‘i love america did you see how purple those mountains are #scout makes fun of sniper’s stamina and treats every hike they go on like it’s a race and every time he does that he collapses #although not pictured i’d like to imagine engineer putting on sunscreen and then pyro seeing and following #they put it over their suit and run around with sunscreen streaks looking for firewood #and spy is probably sitting in a log cabin reading a newspaper and chuckling because he snuck away and doesn’t have to deal with the ‘daily #team building activities’ #(he’s actually secretly a huge red sox fan and met scout’s mom at a sox game but he’s so incredibly embarrassed of liking baseball that he #hides it so when everyone’s away he tunes into a sox game and pulls out his sox merch and gets hype when the sox score a point) #tf2 scout #tf2 sniper #tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #tf2 soldier #tf2 demoman #fanart #art #doodle

[vaynglories]

one of those "steal his look" bird memes but it's this guy and his look is just a white sleeveless tanktop

#steal his look: the kererū! #there's one that's taken up residence in the trees next door and i see its fat ass regularly testing the weight capacity on those branches #love these guys. they'll eat the fermented fruit off your trees and fall passed-out drunk in ur backyard #wild shrieks.txt #birds #kererū

[thiziri]

The Laurences in 2023 ❤️

#LOVE BIRDS #HEART EYES #LOOK AT ALL THOSE HEART EYES #😭😭😭 #HE'S SO IN LOVE #AND SO IS SHE #always there to support his wife #princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #timothy laurence #brf #british royal family #my edit

[robo-dino-puppy]

owl in flight

is this supposed to be a great horned owl? the ones i'm familiar with are much greyer than the golden tones of the owls in forbidden west. but i am not an ornithologist by any stretch of the imagination and i'm unfamiliar with californian owls! they probably have color variations in different populations - or perhaps it's a long-eared owl instead? bird experts feel free to weigh in!

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw wildlife #hfw owl #hfw birds #hfw little details #feathers a tiny bit pixelated if you get too close and those eyes are... a bit funky to me #i feel like the pupils should be slightly smaller as a default size? idk #but still a very nice-looking owl i think #i love all the detail on the feet! #owl

[front-facing-pokemon]

#one from slightly further away under the cut so you can actually see the rest of their beak. but i thought the closer one was funnier #starly #this is another one of those “default early route birds” to me. though i think this is one of my faves just because of the feather patterns #the design is pretty. if i saw a bird in real life that looked like this i would think it's pretty. and i've always liked the sounds it does #i dunno maybe it's nostalgia talking bc gen 4 was the game i played a lot as a kid despite gen 6 being my favorite gen #but i don't even remember what the early-route bird *is* for gen 6. off the top of my head. at this moment. i don't even know #i can try to list them all in order #kanto‚ pidgey; johto……… uuuuhhhh……………… fffuck i'm already having a rough time. gen 3 is taillow. i know that. gen 4 starly‚ gen 5 the uhhh #bitch that evolves into unfezant i don't remember their name. gen 6 who fucking knows‚ gen 7 who fucking knows #okay wow i just googled a list i didn't even think of half of these as early route birds. pidgey‚ spearow‚ wingull?? i dunno #taillow feels more like an early route bird to me. starly‚ #PIDOVE that's their name‚ fletchling which i LOVE but i always just remember the fucking pidgey you always encounter first #pikipek whatever i didn't play gen 7 very much‚ rookidee i remembered evolves into corviknight and then i knew wattrel. bc i was like #wow it's an electric-type! i probably look like a total fake pokémon knower right now and well uh #i am. not. a fake pokémon knower. i'm a pokémaster i promise this just isn't a category of pokémon i think about very often

[onnahu]

My dear tumblr friends, look at those little guys! Look!

They're super cute, but also looking like they're constantly judging you.

Anyway, this is a fieldfare or, in my native language - kwiczoł. As a kid I always called them a little eagles, and they may not look like eagles, but if they were bigger, they would look more like an eagle than an eagle does and I stand by that.

And I'm not biased in saying that kwiczoł is more fitting, bc kwik/kwiczeć you can translate to squeal, and this one squeaks like crazy.

But! It's not the reason it's one of my fav birds - definitely top 5.

Fieldfare is a little bird, but there are smaller ones. And, fieldfares are protective of pretty much everything that's smaller than them and a bird. Especially droździki - redwings, likes to group with them. And fieldfares are just like 'Yeah, sure, you can join our little family. You're small and actually pretty similiar to us. New cousin everybody!'.

Anyway, it became a thing in bird world, that in the area that fieldfares have their nests, a lot of little ones are too, so they can use them as protection.

And it's a wild protection. They don't have sharp beaks or claws. What they have is well functioning renal system. So, when they are being attacked, they literally poop-splash their enemies away. Or when any little bird is attacked, really. They're very protecive.

Also, after birdies leave the nests, they sometimes still get feed by their parents. It's just that sweet overbearing parenting when you see your child go and are like 'Maybe they're too thin... I should feed them a little more. Just in case.'.

I fucking love them.

#kwiczoł #birds #animals #fun facts #fieldfare #look in their eyes and tell me they're not better eagles than real eagles #i bet ya can't #i just love those little guys #it may got nothing to do with what's usually on my blog but god damnit i can't not spread the knowledge about them #they're fighters #and deserves some recognition

[montagne-russe]

loplop introduces magritte's pom'po pon po pon pon pom pon

#doodle #loplop #max ernst #image described #fanart #look up that magritte painting pleeeeease its so cute... i love it.... #i thought loplop and those rabbits should be friends so i combined their paintings. #altho loplop looks less like a bird here and more like lugia ............

[wander-wren]

me slowing down the playback so i can screenshot that singular fucking frame of hawks

hello bby

#bird noises #bnha spoilers #bnha s7 #bnha hawks #HEEEEEEM #those diamond things on his neck werent there before were they? #is that for his voice? #also absolutely obsessed with his post-war look i already was but SCREECH its still good #love a man whose life is falling apart

[the-terrible-theys]

found a tier list thing for ranking all the wks creature power suit designs and figured it’d be fun :)

tier list maker is linked here if you’re curious

anyway here’s mine!

edit: i keep getting notifs for this so i wanted to add that the tiermaker was done by @/galmiahthepigeon !

#wild kratts #half of these are probably in the wrong places but i’m too sleeby to look at it anymore. #i HATE the hammerhead and wild pony suits #cant even stand to look at them #why would they make that #the top row are all very very dear to me but ESPECIALLY squirrel bat and bat eared fox powers #if i were to do a tier list that excludes everything here but the top row those three would be at the very highest #then raccoon and gazelle after probably #love those #also doing this made me realize that parrot powers (at least with the beak part activated) are the closest the show gets to full fursuits #UNLESS IM NOT SEEING SOMETHING THATS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME ? #but in that one everything but his eye is covered. and i’m pretty sure that’s not a thing with any other powersuit ever #based on what i can see + remember at least #anyway. parrot and also heron and lawes’ perocia powersuits were designed so well and i’m mourning what the other bird suits could’ve had #the more i look at my filled out version of this chart the more i wanna change. because some of those are genuinely very well designed. #they just don’t have the visual appeal that for example the raccoon cps has for me. and i guess i mostly ranked them on visual appeal #kind of unfair because one can only make something like brine shrimp powers so appealing #but i’m gonna stop looking and just post it because this was fun to do

[willczek-art]

TOH SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 SPOILERS!

so That Look™ is an absolute hit with my brain-

#toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh hunter #possessed hunter #toh fanart #the owl house #sketchdump #they are from the day of the premiere #i watched it with my fabulous friends #we fought through the livestream that didnt work paw patrol the movie and finally watched the episode at like 4/5am #and then i left all of those nerds sleeping on my couch to doodle The Look™ #and all of the trauma aside mannn thats a hell of a design for an one-off battle!! #i absolutely love every aspect of it and will continue to contemplate it in an aesthetic bubble away from the context of the scene #so i dont get sad #my art #sketches #also obviously Phoenix wasnt in the last episode but i dont have the heart to erease him from this page #so he got his own little blue highlighter background and is now objecting to all of the bad things that happened to hunter c: #phoenix... magical bird... we will not talk about that #tw eyestrain #? im sorry i like to crank up saturation on these sketchdumps lately plz tell me if that bothers you and how to tag it so its not a problem #100

[todayisafridaynight]

nishiki with a goatee and long(er) hair

ah :) thank you :)

#snap chats #much love fam but... you can post these... you dont have to run them by my inbox its ok... #i feel like those pet owners where their cat will bring them dead birds and like Oh Thank You :) Now What #anyway stop sending me these stop giving these men facial hair they were not meant to have any !!!! #looks ILLEGAL bro dont even look like nishiki he looks like russel brand ☠️☠️

[pensonstrings]

Topher

#Gonna make a bird high au #clone fly if you will #clone high #Topher bus #please don't take this as shoebill hate I love those things I just think topher looks like a bird #jfk is a woodpecker because haha funny and similar colors #joan I'm still deciding MAYBE (probably) vampire parrot #still deciding the rest

[beetroot-merchant]

can we please talk about them

#LIKE ??? #ratfink especially . those whove seen me on discord KNOW how insane i am about that freakin Dude #but the others too like #dont get me wrong i could stare at ALL the denizens designs forever and ever but HRR THE BIRDS #i undoubtedly left a few out but if i kept looking id run outta space #anyway bird good. peace and love #🐞 || fandom: tpoh #the property of hate #🐞 || beetle babbles

[fairybluedreams]

Vote Bird That Carries You Over a Disproportionately Small Gap in the 2023 @ut-side-character-showdown!!

Let's review in-game actions:

The Bird notably struggles to get us across the gab due to it's small size, but continues to work hard and do it as many times as a person or monster may need anyways! Makes travel in Waterfall so much more convenient, and provides this service Free of Charge!! The Bird's theme song also fills our heart with determination to accomplish goals and do the amazing!!

Speaking of theme songs -- our precious bird's song can make sooo many awesome remixes too, case in point::

Headcanons for why the Bird carries us over to train are so wholesome ::

So as a final reminder:

CHERISH THIS BIRD & VOTE FOR #BIRDSWEEP

#bird that carries you over a disproportionately small gap #undertale #undertale polls #polls #propaganda #campaigns #small bird #ut-side-character-showdown #i'm very tired so i got kinda lazy towards the end with the slides #not my best work #sorry bird i love you #the list pulls from my own propaganda as well as bird supporters from the ask box so if some of these points look familiar that's why #ok thanks byeeee #bird sweep #ok just edited to add better final slides i feel a lot better about those now ^_^