Birds of a feather! 🦉🦉

Bird is truly the word!

I am glad people enjoy it so much! I’m surprised we don’t have anything else like it. I think a group like tan eggs could pull off something similar. They’ve got pikas to capybaras. Could be fun to do either concurrently to make it a really big dual event, or do it in June so we get 2 separate events a year.

All the support you guys have given me here has really made a lot of positive impact on my real life as well, traveling places to show you guys owls and now working with them and other animals hands on helping their recovery. I never thought I’d release an owl in my own backyard or hold an owl from Australia!

I’ve had a lot of fun with you personally too, trying to come up with French jokes and seeing you spread some owl love to the French speakers. You’re one of my favorites here!

I’d completely forgotten about the spray. I started with spray deodorants originally, but switched to sticks after getting tired of tasting the overspray.

After that I tried gels, but at least the early ones were always sticky feeling. Not sure if they got better as once I tried the basic green Degree, it had everything I’d wanted from an antiperspirant and thankfully they seemed to have never changed it in all this time.

I have almost exclusively used Degree Sport since it came out probably 20+ years ago. The sole variation has been sometimes I got the powder scent if the sport was sold out and I think I used 2 sample sticks of Old Spice for paid surveys.

The Degree just works, is dirt cheap, and has a texture that doesn’t feel funny. Don’t mess with success.

Aww so cute! It looks like it was its first Fourth of July, still small.

I’m right next to the park where they do the town fireworks and I always feel my terrible for the bats that seem to think it’s the end of the world.

The handful I’ve had to handle seemed very shy. For most, I’d be going to clean the juveniles’ cages, but after they saw me coming to pick them up, they’d usually climb the wall and I would just leave them there while I cleaned up and gave them food.

I had one run on me and be pretty feisty. It didn’t bite, but it did not want to be touched one bit.

We had a momma opossum have a surprise litter and since she was already in an outside pen, she got to raise the family there. They were all extremely pleasant and everyone loved them. Momma was a picky eater, but that was about it.

I’ve really enjoyed seeing how different individual animals’ personalities can be.

One of the last skunk babies we had sprayed someone 4 times before we figured out it was getting freaked out by the orange gloves. Any of the other gloves and it was fine.

I haven’t spent near as much hands on time with the oppossums as I had wanted, but the times I have had to grab them, they tend to act scary, but then not really do anything if their tough guy act didn’t get me to leave.

I’ve got tons of pics of them. I think they’re very adorable.

This is the last batch of joeys we incubated.

I grabbed this guy to move it to an outdoor enclosure.

This one is coming out after I dropped off breakfast.

Wawa is pretty much always the real start of a trip for me. Top off the gas, check tires, grab something with caffeine and a Sizzli or soft pretzels, and then I know I’m as ready to roll as in going to be!

It hasn’t been bad so far. The way I’m getting it is an interdermal shot instead of intermuscular, so it’s a shallow injection with a small needle. It feels like a bug bite, a minor skin bump, I didn’t have any itching, but it hurts really bad if I forget it’s there and scratch it by accident. The first injection is still visible, which I’ve never had from another shot, but otherwise I don’t feel it, so I’m thinking it’s not abnormal, but I’ll ask tomorrow.

I was extremely tired the next day, but I have been sleeping like crap all year and I had to drive 6 hours round trip, so it’s probably just that. The shots are very expensive, and the place I’m going is doing a clinic where we can use the same vial of vaccine for multiple people, so it’s saving us all a ton of money.

Even with all the gas money, I’m still saving at least $500 on the shots. Plus I stopped to see a pair of nice waterfalls and listened to a whole Discworld audiobook on trip one. Tomorrow I think I’ll hit up the state college’s store where they sell the ice cream they make in their special ice cream program and maybe hit up the wildlife rescue out there if the rain is light.

I always love to hear it. It makes my day better to talk to you guys about owls and misc other animals too.

Owl of the Year Qualifier starts sometime next month, so be sure to come play along!

Strictly not pets, but I’m getting my 2nd of 3 pre-exposure rabies vaccinations this weekend so I can work with skunks and the other rabies vector species (bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons) next spring!

While I haven’t been able to handle them, I have prepared their food. Out of all the baby animals formulas we have, skunk milk smells the best!

I joined up to work with the owls and other raptors, but all the animals we get are fascinating in their own ways.

That’s awesome! Glad to help out.

That’s my situation as well. Was only a reddit lurker, but I spend more time talking with people here as there’s room for me to be heard through the crowd.

People can still doomscroll here if they choose, but my participation here has led to me doing volunteer work and having countless unique experiences. All I got from reddit was a solid coffee setup.

This comment reminded me of the short story The Road Not Taken.

Fun read for anyone that hasn’t. It’s Earth’s first encounter with an alien race that has developed faster than light travel, only to find out that has put both our civilizations on very different tech trees.

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Whoa, that’s a pretty awesome tecolotyl! I’m glad you’re still enjoying all the owls.

If OP is just looking to browse and maybe make the occasional post or comment, any of the clients people recommend are going to be fine. But for anyone active here, Summit has really aided my productivity, it’s very customizable to my style tastes and my workflow, and the dev is very active here and has been an amazing help taking people’s feedback and lightning fast bug fixes. I don’t know if I’d be as active here as I am without Summit being what it is, and I’m very grateful for it.

Summit is where it’s at!

I thought you were talking about me at first! 😅

This guy was telling me earlier Jimmy Kimmel shoulda done more to stop the genocide in Gaza. 😄

They’re just a troll on every thread they post in, no matter the subject.

I ignored Kimmel until he started to really promote universal healthcare after having scary medical problems with his child and coming to the realization that for many people, the care he was able to get for his child was out of reach for so many in this country.

After that I started watching him more and I think he seems like a fun and genuine person. He pushes the envelope more than I think most people would expect, but doesn’t come off like a know-it-all. I think most of his show bits are funny, and other celebrities really seem to like him and Guillermo, and I think his people on the street segments are more creative than a lot of other shows.

Anyone that hasn’t thought of him since Man Show are really not giving him a fair shot. That was like 20-25 years ago, he’s developed his own thing.