YIMBY Birder (Sarah)

Does anyone else keep a sanity clock? It's helpful for me to keep seeing my biological time for the first day or so after a time change 😆

Kiki looking gorgeous in the golden hour #caturday #nofilter #siberian

I really wish there were a way to know which commenters are being earnest and which are just exceptionally good trolls.

A reminder: West Seattle Blog comments are all individually approved. And a lot of very reasonable ones are never approved (it's happened to me many times).

You can thank the West Seattle Blog specifically for posting this nuanced take.

It really is the same couple people running a bunch of sock-puppet accounts to make themselves appear more legit. Grifters gonna grift.

The Flawed Logic of Seattle’s ‘Orca Appeal’ On March 4 of this year, the Washington State Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments from Jennifer Godfrey, the head of a foundation called the Orca Nexus, a group of advocates for Seattle’s orc…

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Yes, nothing shows how much the SRKW population matters to you better than creating artwork with generative AI tools to fund continued appeals of an attempted lawsuit against your own city for upzoning. So glad to have Seattle Symphony musician Jennifer Godfrey to model responsible activism...

They're doing it again 😭 need a bigger green man

Then yeah, you got it. Calibrating his internal thoughts with context in real time 🫠

He's 13. I'd recommend this with a cute preschooler saying it. 7th grader hits a little harder 🙃

"Bridgerton, the old people show?... I mean, the show about people in old times?.... Like, the show about normal people doing normal things like, a couple hundred years ago?" -My kid, after asking what I'm watching 🤷 #technicallycorrect #bridgerton

Krobus as roommate is the way.

I mean, obviously we need to allow nuance. Many people are just seeking powerful connections with pedophiles. Why should that reflect poorly on them? Why should they experience social consequences? 🫠

Sigh. One week after Lilliana Moreno was killed walking in a busy area of Capitol Hill, and of course the driver has yet to be charged.

The nesting continues, as does the juncos' interest in the project. This one sat on the fence above the box for several minutes just observing before hopping down to the roof for a closer look 😆 🪶
(Apologies for the bad photo quality, it's a phone photo zoomed through a basement window 🙃.)

Agreed! These are folks pining for Seattle of 20+ years ago, mostly, and they've convinced themselves that if they can keep parts "grungy" the interest will just disappear. But yeah, that's not how it works.

On the to-do list! 😆

Basically, they think "rich" people only want to live in "luxury" new builds. But we know that's not true, as exhibited in this very post 🫠

I've encountered the working-class version here in Seattle. They're mad they or their friends have been forced out of Seattle proper due to housing costs, *but* they see new construction as "gentrification" that will only drive prices up further. They seem to think not building will reduce demand 🤦🏼

Right? The poorest choices, over and over! My mom had some nest in the poop scoop she keeps by a side door. Like, within a day or so they'd built a nest and laid their eggs.

In 2024 I left the garage door open while doing yardwork. Juncos took the opportunity to build a nest in this convenient nest-holder.

Last April, juncos chose to nest in this hole from a decommissioned electrical meter... I couldn't garden over there until they fledged 🙃

It popped back out a second later, seemingly looking for the stick...

Meanwhile, the junco wonders why the wren needs a fancy purpose-built house. What's wrong with pots, or a bike helmet left unattended for five minutes?

Oops 😆 #nesting #wren #seattle 🪶

Well, fuck. While I was watching the nest box, an outdoor cat came traipsing through. The wren became very distressed by this. I didn't recognize the cat, and it ran off as soon as it saw me. Guess I'll be setting up a cam.

I put up a new nesting box last fall specifically for wrens. Guess who I spotted moving in? 🥰 Bewick's wren, West Seattle.

I currently have two other nesting boxes that are used every year by either nuthatches or chickadees (whichever gets there first). Maybe I need to add more... 🪶

I truly don't understand why people argue this doesn't happen. Why would housing be the one commodity to not follow basic supply and demand forces?

Still pissed about that one. My kid, now 13, loved going to LCM. We had a membership and would go to the special events. He was just getting to the age when he really "got it" when COVID hit and it closed... And then never reopened. Such a needless loss.

Damn, we had a big hole here in West Seattle for years! Unfortunately L.A. Fitness moved in.