green (aka Corvus) @troodon@vulpine.club

"badly explain your fursona"

um... look, the *accurate* explanation is "post-ego-collapse refugee dinosaur from an alternate dimension, who used to be a Martian paleontologist," so

no, seriously: I WILL NOT ACCEPT FOLLOWS UNLESS YOU SEND ME A DM (or unless I'm already following you; follow-backs are auto-accepted). just say hi! if you're too afraid of me to send a DM, what the &*$^ makes you think I'm willing to let you see the stuff I post followers-only? sheesh.

account note: if I boost a toot that has a picture or gif that isn't captioned, I *pledge* to immediately follow it up with a non-@ reply describing the image.

also: if you can, please, PLEASE caption the images and gifs you post? if you can't, it's okay, but if you can, please do.

oh is it #introductions time again already?

* furry-adjacent saurian/dragonkin
* bitey, with feathers
* green hair
* #agender (they/them or zie/zir)
* currently ace/aro
* historically #polyamorous
* intermittent #writer mostly of #fanfic
* lifelong depressive disorder, currently mostly in remission
* #oneiromancer
* occasionally posts about "woo-stuff" (magic/spirituality/weirdness)
* frequently posts about wildlife (birds, coyotes, squirrels)
* 2 adorable #cats
* 1 adorable #spouse

well I was going to go to the remnants of Northgate mall to do a capitalism, but Nature! there's a windstorm on, and, well. this isn't an entire tree, despite appearances; it's about 1/2 of the upper 2/3, a large fork, that was apparently (going by the looks of the bole at the end of the branch) having some severe problems already. this is directly across the semi-arterial along which the bus I was going to take needed to travel. I did a capitalism at the walking-distance stores instead, and by the time I was done there (half an hour maybe) the big branch had been pulled off to the side and reduced to firewood chunks.

I was nipped by a baby squirrel who I was trying to catch to feed. once I got the syringe of milk in its face it was suddenly much less interested in biting me and much more in FOOD OMFG FOOD YES OMNOMNOMNOM it didn't break the skin, just pinched a little.

I was also not bitten by a very agitated duck, because I kept it covered up properly. and I was not bitten by a barred owl because I wasn't the one holding it--the rehabber held it while I cleaned its enclosure. and that's the extent of my critter contact today!

as I was leaving somebody brought in a surprisingly small raccoon, just 2-4 weeks old, that was born *very* late in the season. so we may be keeping at least one raccoon over winter! XD

the fourth bear cub was introduced to the older three with no problems and they are now romping and wrassling together. also, the bobkitten is VERY ACTIVE. but the critter slowdown is in progress, so there isn't much else to report today. :D

I forgot! I didn't handle it, but I did have to get into biting-range of an osprey. I had to give him food and remove leftovers so we could chart how much he's eating. he's in a small enclosure because his wing's messed up, so he was *right there* skreeking at me during this process, but he didn't actually bite me which is GOOD because ospreys have some serious sharp bits. XD

that's about it, might have more to report after Friday's volunteering session. /salute

otherwise, it was slow yesterday, and will continue to slow down as we go into the "deep-clean everything and store it away for the season" cycle for fall and winter. I find that process very satisfying, but it can be some *very* hard work, and it means dealing with lots of accumulated gunk that built up over the spring and summer and likely a *lot* of spiders, so quite a few volunteers take the season off.

almost all the spring baby raccoons have been released; we just have one silo of 10 left, and a couple of adults that were injured in other ways that we may or may not keep over winter. the two otter kids were also released, and the rhinoceros auklet. we never did get the second orphaned bear cub, sadly, so we only have four bears. we're hoping to get the singleton fed up and introduced to the other three before we start trying to get them to hibernate--they do better with buddies than solo--but if necessary she can stay separated from the others until release time, we've done that before too and the bear turned out fine. the bobkitten is fine solo, still don't know if we're keeping her over winter. we still have the "famous" barred owl from UW, he's healing fine and should be up for live prey testing and release later this month.

so yesterday I handled:

* = bit me
1 crow
* 1 glaucous-winged gull (aka "seagull")
* several rock pigeons
1 band-tailed pigeon
1 mallard
* 1 cedar waxwing
* 1 red-naped sapsucker

the waxwing bit me quite vigorously, however it was in very bad shape to begin with, and the stress of handling was too much for it--a few minutes after we'd put it back in its enclosure it died. I feel very bad about that, but I was assured it was in very bad shape and it wasn't my fault for handling it incorrectly. :/

the red-naped sapsucker is a small woodpecker-kin, which is very rare on this side of the Cascades; this one is a juvenile who got lost on its first migration attempt. hopefully we'll be able to get it fixed up (it has a very few minor problems) in time for release to continue its migration.

the only biting that left an actual mark was the gull. catching, wrapping, medicating, and weighing it all went fine, but when I put it down and removed the towel a stray thread had looped around its leg, and while unhooking that it got a good peck on my hand, leaving a still-visible scrape. didn't quite break the skin but came very close.

an amusing meme from Birbhell:

"You've been kidnapped. Your kidnappers allow you to keep tweeting to pretend everything is alright. What would you tweet that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?"

my response:
"ugh I'm so sick of seeing these *feathers* all over dinosaurs these days, they just look *silly*"

alternately, and shorter:
"dragons are dumb"

(via https://twitter.com/hackettkate/status/1174523086281949184 )

the otters are being released today, at Ocean Shores. I think we're keeping the bobkitten a while longer, not sure if she'll be released soon or overwinter with us. the bears are great and now we have four, one new one was brought in today and we might have another one by tomorrow, orphans. :( I hope we get both of them, they're apparently a third the size of the other three, so it'll be better if we can keep them together for a while until they're big enough to be introduced to the others. we will be keeping them all for the winter and releasing them in spring.

we have a rhinoceros auklet, the first we've ever had, which is doing great and on track for release next week. we also have a merlin; I've never seen a merlin before and I still haven't, because I'm good and don't peek, but dang I really want to see this merlin!

oh and we have a small celebrity: a barred owl flew into a window at UofW and, well, there's stories about it online! https://patch.com/washington/seattle/uw-barred-owl-now-appropriately-defensive-eating shows him in a cage in the ward, with a perch, and the other picture shows more of the ward, neat! I volunteer there! and the other story: https://patch.com/washington/seattle/barred-owl-uw-bars-pedestrian-traffic-campus "He spent a few hours standing on a sidewalk surrounded by "caution" tape before he was taken to the vet."

today I:
* fed baby squirrels
* delivered diets
* cleaned a raccoon silo
* fed more baby squirrels

the first batch of bby squirrels was in the Nursery, and they were a pain in the tail; none of them wanted to eat, they just wanted to squirrel around and fuss. the second batch was a bunch of older squirrels, and they were *great*--if anything a little too enthusiastic; one of them managed to nip me when I took away the syringe to refill it with milk, but didn't break the skin, just pinched a little.

the raccoons were adorable, and about as cheeky as you'd expect for having been raised by humans even with how hard we work at being hands-off. by the time I was done you could tell which ones were the most curious and least afraid of me by how wet they were--one of them looked like a sponge. XD

delivering diets was routine, no excitement. juvenile weaned squirrels, crows, pigeons, a flicker, some songbirds, a quail, and two bald eagles, which are always bigger than I expect but also very unwilling to interact with me, so that's fine.

dammit I just wanted to go to sleep, I didn't *want* to be having a transcendent experience, I've got shit to do tomorrow #InsomniaThings

so, you want to follow someone? cool! you know how you click on their user name, and you see that "follow" button? there's some stuff under that, it's called the "user profile" or something, I know it's a lot of words but maybe if you're going to follow someone you should read them? because they sometimes have information like, oh, just for a random example, "if you'd like to follow, |SEND ME A DM| and tell me" and that might be, like, important? or something?

this cranky snark brought to you by the last HALF-DOZEN OR SO PEOPLE who have managed to click the "follow" button on my profile WITHOUT BOTHERING TO READ ANYTHING ACTUALLY IN THAT PROFILE. *or* the pinned toots. yes I know that doesn't automatically show up on some (any?) mobile platforms; however, if that's the case that means if you are reading and wanting to follow people via a mobile platform maybe YOU SHOULD BE MAKING THE EFFORT TO FIND AND READ THAT EXTRA INFORMATION.

Harry Potter and the Death of Authorial Intent

Harry Potter and the Terrible Backstory

Harry Potter and the Painfully Obvious Plot Hole

Harry Potter and That Thing, What's It Called, No The Other Thing, The One With The Stuff

oh! last night Spouse and I listened to bird calls on my Cornell Lab app (seriously I *adore* that thing) and determined that the owl we heard hooting is in fact a barred owl, not great horned. apparently barred owls only do the monkey-screeching as a mating/territorial thing; when they're just hanging out and hooting to themselves it's a much more normal owl "whoooo." I'm mildly sad that we apparently don't have a great horned owl in the area, but having barred owls is still cool! as long as they aren't being too aggressive. which they can get, in the autumn when they're pair-bonding and establishing nesting territories. >_____< #BirdWatching

oooh, owl hooting outside! it's definitely not a barred owl--might be a barn owl, but it sounds more like a great horned and that's really cool! :D :D

dang, that's a *lot* of angry crow yelling. they've either found a predator... or a mylar balloon. >_____<

looks like Chara and whoever they've managed to harangue into being their personal attack dogs are going after people I care about, AGAIN.

what the *fuck*, Chara. mark me up as yet another person who tried to give a shit about you and learned the hard way that you're a self-centered narcissist who is incapable of learning or getting the fuck over your own issues. your fixation on Undertale is painfully embarrassing, as the whole point of the game is to learn, grow, and EMPATHIZE. which you are FAILING TO DO.

put up or shut up. your "Postfurry is a cult! and I am a Tragic Hero for the Wrongs that were Done To Me and now I am Turning The Tables!" narrative will only fool new folks for so long, or people who are just as messed up as you. if you really gave a single shit about any of the higher motivations you claim, you would LEAVE. PEOPLE. ALONE. cooking up justifications to harass others means you're hanging your ass out in the wind, where everybody can see it.

here, have some musical reinforcement: STOP BEING A DICKHEAD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suaveqvlWP8

*gasp*!
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