Canon R7, Sigma contemporary 150/600mm. It was on a low tree branch so between 2 to 4m away? The odds were NOT in my favor for this picture because I accidentally locked the camera on “ISO 100”, this handheld with 2kg+ camera/lens on a windy day. Got lucky :)

Oh that’s wonderful. I head “Robin Redbreast” before but I had no idea about Jenny Wren. Lovely!

Rouge-Gorge here :)

Thank you!

All of my Dick Grayson fanart came with the wrong bird until I figured out American Robins were a thing.

And the “old world” version of animals are usually superior. I had a very confusing conversation about squirrels with a New Yorker friend who was describing squirrels as fluffier rats, and I was describing lovely furballs. Then we respectively found out about grey/red squirrels.

“Turdus” being Latin for “thrush” and having absolutely nothing to do with their propensity to crap on your car. Honest.

Here I am, wiping european tears of laughter off my cheeks. Incidentally, I was wondering who blackbirds had pissed off to be named “Turdus Merula”, aka “poop noxious fungus”.

You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.

Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?

The only reason I didn’t impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don’t even have bald eagles around here.

I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!

Try cloudhiker

Amazing scene! That must have been great to watch. Less so to hear!

A handsome boi!

So mossy. It’s beautiful!

Everyone needs to head to that mastodon account because there is a whole series of amazingly adorable photo to pixel pieces!

“Did they see me? Naaah. I am perfectly hidden behind this tall grass!”

I saw php error logs cause a full disk in a few minutes (thankfully on a shared dev server), thanks to an accidental endless loop that just flooded everything with a wall of notices…

And, working with a CMS that allows third-party plugins that don’t bother to catch exceptions, aggressive web crawlers are not a good thing to encounter on a weekend… 1 exception x 400000 product pages makes for a loooot of text.

It comes with a PWA that works well enough.

“A dumbass committed her email address hardcoded as a recipient for all mails, again.”

– Me, the dumbass

“We will take facebook pixel and tiktok and klaviyo for the events, and oh our chatbot, google analytics, this other analytics thing, and…”

I routinely have murderous urges. Ma’am, your site crashes my 6yo phone’s browser. Stop. I beg you.