The Linker
@diagonist
Student of language(s), birds, zen, jazz, art, Britcom, wildlife photography. Left big tech consulting years ago to teach English to refugees. Let's celebrate life together. NC native, met Texas wife in Boston, now live in blue spot Austin. 🥄
.... WTF is he talking about -- move ICE in on Monday? Where? To do what? Replace TSA? Do they want passengers to be thrown to the ground and kicked?
My favorite S. Texas bird photo, from 2014 in the Santa Ana National Wildlife Reserve, a Kiskadee. Nikon D7100, 300mm, f/5.6 1/125 sec. ISO 1400 cropped.
@olyphoto.bsky.social Oystercatcher has bullseye eyes, pale legs. Indian Point near Corpus Christi, TX.
Charles Umlauf 1911-1994 "War Mother" in McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX This sculpture from 1939 will always be relevant so long as there are wars.
It's a good thing butterflies are a lot small than we are. This Checkered White seen up close looks scary. My photo.
Saw one of these for the first time last month. We don't usually get them on the Gulf Coast of Texas, and I was very excited. Not a great photo, but new to me. Port Aransas.
Here's photo from the newspaper: There were over 100,000 people there protesting the war in Vietnam in 1969. I marched from Cambridge down Massachusetts Avenue, several miles.
Golden Fronted Woodpecker shows the top of its head. S. Texas, Santa Ana NWR
Austin likes to call itself "weird". Here's a group who walked in while I was eating lunch:
Chachalaca: a uniquely zany flocking bird from far S. Texas, near the border. [my photo] In mating season, cacophony! Medium large, noisy. Listen to this: youtu.be/hmVAatDqcCc
Golden-fronted Woodpecker sticks his fancy head out. Santa Ana NWR in S. Texas. My photo.