Miranda Horner

Black swallowtail

#InsectThursday #Inverts #Butterflies #Bees
Black swallowtail with bonus Green Bee surveying the situation .

Fuzzy black and lemon bee pollinating lavender petalled flower with yellow center.

Happy Fly-day. We made it!

Male common eastern bumblebee
(Bombus impatiens)

on New England aster
in the Logan Square neighborhood
of Chicago on 9-8-25

Visiting this weekend, on my mind 🖖🏼

#flyDay #eck #bugsky #macro #photography #macrophotography #bees #bumblebees #nature #art #pollinators 🐝

Photo of a Northern flicker. Standing on a large post. Facing to the left. Background blurry with some plant material.

Just a little late night bird for everyone.

Northern flicker. In my yard today. #DavisCA #California #BirdPhotography #Birds

I've had "Want You Gone" in my head all week at this point.

Sometimes it does swing over into "Still Alive."

That weird snowstorm we had yesterday really put a dent in the whole "dig my brain out of the winter so that I may enjoy the spring and sunshine" thing I have to do each year.

Oh, winter blues. GO FAR AWAY!

My outside chairs have arrived! That means tea in the morning listening to birbs have their drama time.

Birb drama is the best drama.

I think, given how much analysis goes into any specific person’s tracked behaviors online, I want to become the avatar of Mirandom.

Safely predictable in offline spaces, but you never know what to expect in online spaces.

Well, as predictable offline as I can get.

We had snow today. It’s already gone.

Ah, Maryland, I see we have completed Fool’s Spring and are now in Second Winter.

Next up: Spring of Deception.

A profile view of a medium-sized bird clinging vertically to the side of a weathered, decaying tree trunk while actively pecking, sending small wood chips flying through the air. The bird features a vibrant red crown and nape, a pale tan face and belly, and striking black-and-white horizontal barring across its wings and back. The background consists of a soft, out-of-focus forest setting with dappled sunlight filtering through green foliage.

A Red-bellied Woodpecker making sawdust along the trail.

#WoodpeckerWednesday #bird #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #queensnyc #citybirds #forestpark

Red male cardinal in profile looking right on red feeder platform

Red male cardinal looking down and I'm profile toward right on red birdfeed platform

Men strike serious poses. #birds

I need to get a couple patio chairs. The storm just rolled in, I can afford to splurge a tiny bit, and I want to sit outside when storms roll in this year.

I’ve decided that now that I’ve got a news system that prevents them from flooding MY zone, I can start picking out bedtime anime to watch. Yay, bedtime anime!

Also, support your local newspapers if you can afford to. That’s where I prefer to get my reporting these days. (Ground News is also good.)

A Common Goldeneye male swims in a calm watercourse.

Aside from dodging the occasional ice chunk, life has starting looking up this male Common Goldeneye with the prospects of spring. #Ab #birds

A small brown and beige streaked songbird in a mess of branches, facing into the sun. It’s forehead and throat are a brilliant orangey-red.

A small brown and beige streaked songbird chomps on a sunflower seed at the edge of a bird feeder.

This l’il guy showed up yesterday for a quick visit, and sang his l’il heart out in our backyard tree before sampling a l’il bit of seed and splitting. #birds

Timeboxing news consumption, day one: Done!

Now I can safely ignore it until lunch tomorrow.

I expect to see a disco ball and DJ next time I’m on the NCR trail and standing at that line.

They were just here, too. Heh.

California Scrub-jay on a sign

Y'all love a blue bird, and I'm particularly fond of birds on signs. This handsome California Scrub-jay ticks both boxes as it oversees the restoration at Coffee Lake Creek Wetlands, Clackamas County, Oregon this afternoon. #birding

Yellow-rumped Warbler on a thorny branch

Mr Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) looks bedraggled after a short spring rain shower. Coffee Lake Creek Wetlands, Clackamas, Oregon #birding

A sanderling with something in their mouth, running on the surf with both feet in the air

Can't believe those little legs work like that. 🪶

I need to remember to check the news once during the DAY, not like right before I try to sleep.

I should know better by now.

Today I learned that my cat loves johnny cakes. I turn away for like one minute, and she's got a mouthful of one.

I mean, I like them too, but this was unexpected.

Be the person who helps bats think they're flying.

After spending two weeks basically either working or doing minimum life things or hiding from pain, it's nice to have two days where I can start digging myself out of the chore hole I have fallen into.

If I can get my work to-do list where I want, maybe I take Friday off to just goof around.

I'm still mad that people think em dashes are a sure sign of AI usage.

Maybe I should just lean into my Faulknerian parentheticals again.

Encountering a new creature in Requiem. My first thought: If this were a Star Wars game, I'd want a way to ride that.

Heh, gotta love different genres, though.

My cat, who is still opting for the cat tube on the sofa with heating pad under it because I'm still jumping around a bit now and again, had her back little feetsies sticking out of the hole for a bit. It was adorable.

Nothing like shooting zombies in the face with easy access to cat pets.

Yes, doing all three has been super helpful for me overall. I've also pretty much nuked my night sweats as part of this.

I have this urge to take all the Requiem maps and use them to design houses over in House Flipper 2, where I can also spiff up all these nasty environments. LOL.

I will definitely use the cat wallpaper option for the worst spots.

While outside briefly a few minutes ago, I heard geese complaining off in the distance.

Reminds me of Seattle, that does. Heh.