Oh, I just saw another id site that said females have rosy cheeks, so maybe it's just a male and female and the female's head has less white. Females are bigger, right?
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Oh, I just saw another id site that said females have rosy cheeks, so maybe it's just a male and female and the female's head has less white. Females are bigger, right?
I don't know, they both have orange bellies and pictures of immature ones seem to have white and brown. I wish you could come visit me to ID them. Let me know if you happen to make it to central NJ during nesting season! 😆
A hawk perched in a tree. Its head is turned unhelpfully. It has an orange and white belly and gray back.
The back of the hawk. It’s gray.
This is hawk 2. To me it looks like a classic Cooper’s hawk. Sorry I couldn’t get a better shot of its head.
A zoomed in picture of a hawk in a tree it has an orange and white belly and a gray head.
The back of a hawk in a tree, for all the help that will give.
This is hawk 1. It’s a little bigger than hawk 2 but seems to have brown below the gray on its head, not white, and a browner back.
@magpie.tips You replied to me once about hawks, so now you're my designated on-call hawk person. Would two different species of hawks be hanging out a lot in the same tree for an hour or more at a time? At least one of them seems to have a nest in another nearby tree.
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(It's a crying shame this site doesn't have a gif of Moira Rose's wine commercial.)
Jessamyn, no, think of something safe, like vectors, or cycloids! (I'm saying this to you the way Troy tells Abed to think Holly Hunter or Don Cheadle, but that might not be very helpful if you haven't watched Community as many times as I have.)
A binocular view photo of what is probably a Cooper’s hawk in a tree. It has an orange and white belly and gray and white striped tail.
A binocular view photo of a probable Cooper’s hawk in a tree. It has a gray topped head, orange and white belly, and gray and white striped tail.
A binocular view of a probable Cooper’s hawk in a tree. Its belly feathers are very fluffed up.
Wow, just got to watch a couple hawks right outside my front door for ~an hour! Probably Cooper’s but maybe sharp-shinned? (I welcome id help.) Pretty happy with the quality of pictures I got just holding my phone up to my binoculars. 😆 I got to watch them do a lot of stretching and grooming!
Which I don't mean in a self-pitying way, and I certainly know I wasn't the primary victim of 9/11. But it was a very stark and destabilizing way to start that next phase of my life!
classes for the rest of the day and the next couple of days, or came to the room but just let us talk about the news or cry. I remember thinking this event was going to change everything just as I started college & became an adult. I'd never have a chance to be an adult in a "normal" world.
I had just turned 18. It was my 2nd or 3rd week of college. My first class started before (or right around, but before news got to us) the first crash. Left class and heard tense buzzing everywhere. Went to the dorm lounge with the TV to find out what had happened. I think my other profs canceled
my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on 🙏 🐛
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I wish I could bottle the way my 3-year-old niece says the word dinosaur. I think it would heal a lot of people. It’s so cute, transcription doesn’t quite do it justice. It’s something like “dine-tore,” but she does a funny diphthong on syllables that end in r that I don’t know how to convey.
Left that part out. It's such a rich text, it's hard to hit everything!
"Kid Rock flips off the camera."
"Well that's believable at least. In the hot tub?"
"No, on the exercise bike."
"Ah, you didn't mention there was an exercise bike."
"It's in the sauna too."
When I told my husband about this this morning I think he wasn't sure whether I was telling him about a dream or a real thing. "They were doing pushups in a sauna." "He was doing a cold plunge wearing jeans." "He was drinking milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock."
"Make America healthy again"
"So you're encouraging regular checkups, routine vaccinations, colonoscopies, eating vegetables, and removing financial barriers to all of the above?"
"I was thinking more drinking a glass of milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock."
"..."
(I haven't read this article. Just responding to the question.) I'm excited about ebikes. I think they have the potential to replace a lot of 1-10 mile single-person car trips. I love riding a regular bike, but ebikes make it quicker & less sweaty & more accessible & let you carry more stuff.
A graphic from erdavis.com with the title, "Names most at risk of going extinct in the United States"
By the always excellent Erin Davis, a chart of the first names that have seen the greatest (estimated) drop in living Americans with that name. Much more here, including an interactive to look the trends for any first name: erdavis.com/2026/02/16/i...
If you save 20% of your income and tithe, you're at Buffett's level. And it probably means a lot more to you!
Even though this makes Buffett look generous, a fun fact is that if you have 100 billion dollars, you can give away 99% of your money and still have enough to spend $27,000 a day for 100 years. Giving away that much of your wealth has no impact on the comfort of your life.
Thrifting deserves looser rules than buying new!
I've never been able to get into it. Is there an episode you'd recommend starting at or hanging on until to give myself a chance to start liking it?
There was a line of maybe a dozen boys and men (estimated ages 13-75) at the flower counter in the grocery store when I went yesterday afternoon and it made me smile.
How cool!
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
"There is no difference between a private event and the constitutional right to vote. I am very smart."
Who is saying "ICE should get out of Minnesota so it can terrorize other people instead"? That just doesn't seem like what anyone is advocating. This sounds like someone who's just mad that anyone else might be feeling good about anything.
Yes, they have definitely tricked me in my mom’s neighborhood!
I think I just id’d a Cooper’s hawk by ear thanks to you! I couldn’t get a good look at it because of the angle of the sun relative to the branch it was on, but it kind of sounded like a monkey (which is what that recording reminded me of).