This is really neat, wish it was closer to me!
Just an FYI, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) prohibits the collection and possession of nearly all wild native bird parts--including naturally shed feathers-- without a permit in the US. There are a few exceptions, such as game birds and non-native species.
Reminds me of the Chilly Downs in Labyrinth!
It's absurd, that's all.
Looks like my cat when she's angy. 🤣
It's really hard to make anything with an etch a sketch, even their own r&d can't do it.
I visit my local food pantry regularly, so I think I have some perspective.
There's a state run mobile food pantry that makes up boxes of shelf stable foods to give out. It's wonderful, but it's always pretty much the same things every time-- canned corn, peas, tuna, fruit, spaghetti sauce, beans. They are clearly buying staples in bulk to give out, which makes sense for their process.
When I go to my local pantry, which gets a lot of direct donations, I can find a much wider variety of products. Canned chicken, nice soups, ravioli, artichokes, diced tomatoes, etc. It makes for a more varied and interesting diet.
Donating money is great and versatile, but donating canned goods can be valuable too.
The military is making WMDs but can't get the slides presented properly.
Please come to my house and enjoy all the juicy voles, so they'll stop eating my beans and cukes.
Because "Indians" used to bury people this way as a form of torture, or test of bravery--only they probably didn't really, at least not as much as movies might have suggested. Here's a clip from the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972), which was very well known at the time and probably inspired this strip: https://youtu.be/pYhlVR9GzjA?si=klSXoYG0m3ynJzE4
UPI Archives April 7, 1989 Spooky the Owl dead at 38
BOSTON -- Spooky the Owl, the 38-year-old mascot of Boston's Museum of Science and the oldest great horned owl in captivity, has died after a career that included 25,000 performances before delighted crowds.
Spooky, whose antics were seen by about 30 million visitors, was brought to the museum as a hatchling in 1951 and quickly became a major attraction. Officials said he died at the museum Wednesday.
'The museum has lost a very good friend. He certainly did more than his share of working here over 38 years. Spooky and the folks who acted as his interpreters did a fabulous job in teaching folks about owls. He is certainly a bird that is going to be missed,' Lewis Stevens, coordinator of the museum's Live Animal Center, said Friday.
Great horned owls normally live only 10 years in the wild. Spooky was known for sitting atop a lecturer's shoulder and turning his head 180 degrees while keeping his body motionless.
'He was a very noble bird,' Stevens said. 'In my 15 years of working with animals, on a scale of 1 to 10, he would rate a Number 10.'
The great horned owl is a powerful bird of prey. One born and raised in the wild could inflict serious damage on humans with its powerful bill and talons.
But Spooky was hand-reared after he was brought to the museum when he was three days old.
'The constant human attention that he got over the years is what made him a very tame animal. He liked to work with people,' Stevens said. 'It wasn't as much a matter of training Spooky as training people to work with Spooky. Chances of finding another owl with the same temperament are very slim.
Spooky, who had done more than 25,000 performances, was taken last week to Angell Memorial Hospital for a liver scan and was later returned to the museum.
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Performing Tchaikovsky's lesser known "Owl Pond"