Cassin’s Vireo (Vireo cassinii)

Photo by Flickr user Amado Demesa

#245

There are some decent-sized holes in my birding knowledge. As I was discussing in connection with terns yesterday, there are certain groups I’ve tended to avoid in the past as requiring too much work.

“Little olive jobs flitting in tree canopies” is one of them. Until recently I haven’t really put in the effort. As a result, until this morning I’d never (knowingly) seen a Cassin’s Vireo.

But with the year-list obsession I have no excuse. People started reporting them around here few weeks ago in eBird, and I started keeping my eyes open. And this morning I was successful! I was looking at migrants in the willows at the Greenwell Preserve; the sun had just come up and the trees were full of singing. At one point I thought I heard what sounded like the Cassin’s Vireo recordings I’d been listening to, but it didn’t repeat, and I gave up looking for the singer and went back to all the awesome Orange-crowned and Nashville Warblers. And then there it was, plain as day! Spectacles, gray head, wing bars… I even got a glimpse of the yellow edging on the secondaries.

A very stylish bird. 🙂

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shipwreckedcomedy:

Funny or Die Friday: Poe Party Chapter Two – The Masque of the Red Death

It’s FoD Friday yet again and today we present the second chapter of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party: The Masque of the Red Death! Go haunt these halls no more on our Funny or Die channel and tune into our twitter later today at 2 pm PDT for a takeover with Louisa May herself, Tara Perry. Find out how she does that thing with her eyes. Seriously. We must know. And while you’re at it, hit that Funny button.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Ch. 2: The Masque of the Red Death – watch more funny videos

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granthilderbrandt:

Buckaroo Banzai end titles (credits) (good quality) (by piling5262)

Best end credits sequence ever.

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treadsoftly88:

A goofy Sofia Coppola kisses Mickey Rourke in Rumble Fish,1983

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photosofsouthwestmt:

Making Waves
A Wilson’s phalarope I found swimming in a flooded field, near the Bloody Dick Creek Road last spring.
Nikon D7100, Manual Mode, Tamron 150-600mm VC, F/6.3, ISO-400, ET 1/800, Focal Length  600mm, Hand Held Vibration Control on

#244

One was reported yesterday at the Coal Oil Point “dune pond”, not far from Devereaux Slough, so after seeing the Caspian Terns I headed over to see if it was still there. It was!

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buddhabirds:

Caspian Tern

Traverse City, Michigan

#243

I’d been seeing these for a few weeks, I’m pretty sure, but I hadn’t seen one well enough to be confident of the ID. Terns are one of those groups that I’ve tended to avoid in the past as “too hard”, which of course creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: not knowing the bird = avoiding the bird = not knowing the bird. I’m addressing it now, but I’ve needed an unambiguously close view to be sure of my identification.

Devereaux Slough is where they’d been reported most frequently lately, so this morning I got myself up before dawn and headed up there. There were a few tern fly-bys that seemed pretty good for Caspian, but not good enough for me to be sure. I’d resigned myself to going without them yet again when a group of four flew in and landed in the slough. They weren’t as close as I would have liked, but I got the spotting scope on them and cranked up the magnification and… yes! They had the dusky tip on the beak that was the feature I was looking for.

I present to you one of the worst photos ever of Caspian Tern:

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lies:

As I Walked Out One Evening

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a-pair-of-ragged-claws:

Mary Oliver, reading her poem “Wild Geese”

Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
   Meanwhile the world goes on.

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haniexiddd:

_{Rumble Fish (1983)}

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evermore-fashion:

Dennis Basso Pre-Fall 2016 Collection

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fungusqueen:

I was in Northern California at the end of March; this photo was taken at sunrise; I still can’t believe the glowing mountains beaming at the horizon!! Like everything else up there, it was beautiful and unreal and very different from Southern California

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90377:

stormswept wildflowers by Danielle Nelson

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Dorothy Barnard, 1885-6, graphite on paper, 24.8 x 21.0 cm

Polly Barnard, 1885-6, graphite on paper, 27.9 x 23.5 cm

Margaretta Drexel, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham, c.1900, charcoal, 48.26 x 62.23 cm

Paul Helleu, early 1880s, graphite on off-white paper board, 33.5 x 26.2 cm

Olga de Meyer, 1907

Helen A. Clark, 1924, charcoal on off-white laid paper and board, 61 x 45.6 cm

Firelight, c.1875, graphite on off-white wove paper, 16.8 x 10 cm

Mrs Louis Ormond, c.1920, graphite on off-white wove paper, 30.8 x 21.9 cm

Duchess of Marlborough (Consuelo Vanderbilt), c.1905, graphite on white wove paper, 28.4 x 19.8 cm

Seated Woman with Hat, late 1880s, graphite on off-white wove paper, 32.5 x 24 cm

insipit:

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925, United States/England)

Drawings

John Singer Sargent

was a prolific American artist, resident many years in Europe, and one of the leading portrait painters of his generation. Prodigiously skilled, Sargent dominated the art scene of his period, painting society portraits, genre scenes and landscapes, as well as being a gifted watercolourist and sketcher. His economy of technique – likened to ‘drawing’ with a brush – lent some of his works an impressionistic air, but his mastery of representation gravitated his style towards Naturalism.

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chandelyer:

Marchesa fall 2018 rtw

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ubehmonster:

Okay. I want to make flash drawings of all of them now huehue. Lenore is a dazzling character to start with 💝

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Me two years ago: Who are Sean and Sinéad Persaud? Are they married? Siblings? Cousins? Unrelated people who happen to have the same last name? They’re very funny together in A Tell Tale Vlog, whoever they are.
Me one year ago: Wow, Sean and Sinéad Persaud did a remarkably fantastic job writing Poe Party and bringing it to life. Sibling goals!
Me now: SEAN AND SINÉAD PERSAUD ARE THE BEST WRITERS IN HOLLYWOOD AND I WOULD LITERALLY TAKE A BULLET FOR EITHER OF THEM

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dappledwithshadow:

John Singer Sargent
The Piazzetta, Venice
c.1904

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hiimlesphotos:

The Eyes

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jaynaneeya:

Sean Persaud & vlogging: the ultimate brotp

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papillon-de-mai:

John Singer Sargent — Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children. detail. 1896

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