I just found out that these guys live in my area. Well, they can, anyway. I don't know how close they get to urban areas. But there are some woods around, and I heard what I'm pretty sure was a screech owl the other night.
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Looks like it even put on safety squints. It does blend in pretty well though. Better than the other one :)
Beautiful bird. Such long wings and powerful looking feet. I wouldn't want to get too close to those talons.
You can see the fringe on the front edge of her wings. I forgot if you said that helps them fly silently.
He said, "Sag mal, wie lange wollt ihr bei dem Scheiß bleiben?" He said the problem was that Trump was rambling (this part of the speech was unscripted). Article is in German. Here's a partial translation by DeepL, tweaked by me:
His interjection should not be interpreted as a political statement. "No, that would be completely wrong. The political content is not the problem,“ says Deja, adding: ”I interpret all the time for people whose political statements I don't agree with. The problem with Trump was that he suddenly started associating freely or saying the same thing three times in a row. The difficulty when interpreting is following these confusing leaps of thought." He explains: "If a speaker has organized thoughts, then as soon as the sentence has started, you can roughly guess what will come next. You can keep surfing that wave. But that's impossible with Trump."
I believe it, because simultaneous interpreting is really hard, intense work. You have to listen, remember it word for word, understand it, and give an accurate, natural sounding translation pretty much instantly. You have to try to convey the tone, understand cultural differences, and figure out how to say things that just don't translate well. It's so much work that interpreters often work in teams so they can relieve each other every 30 minutes or so.
What a cute little thing, and pretty markings. Fun way of capturing how active it was. Looks like it'd be hard to get a good shot of such a tiny critter bouncing around in all those leaves.
Officers or prosecutors withheld the existence of multiple witnesses and police reports, including one of an attempted armed robbery at a gas station across the street from the furniture store within hours of the murders. The original judge also behaved inappropriately, the lawyers say, getting a doctor to prescribe Valium to a holdout juror, who only then voted to convict.
Withholding evidence is not that uncommon, unfortunately, but it looks like it was especially bad in this case. And giving Valium to a juror is an egregious overreach. The full details of what happened are even worse than it sounds at first glance.
She was under a lot of pressure because she wanted to talk about the evidence and the other jurors didn't. They yelled at her and heckled her, basically, until she fainted. The judge finds out and says it's no problem. Defense lawyer asks for a mistrial, gets turned down. Juror says she doesn't need a doctor. Then the judge makes a phone call, in secret, and gets her doctor to give her Valium. Enough that the other jurors thought she was "floating."
The worst part is, the Florida supreme court saw no problem with that. They said it wasn't judicial misconduct, it was just the judge being concerned and looking out for her.
I don't think I've seen anyone else go to the trouble of posting in a language they didn't know. Pretty cool! Or in Romanian, you could call that "concrete" (as in the building material).
I'm pretty sure I have better than average hearing, and it does get a little tiring sometimes. Whether it's high-pitched background noise, or turning on the good equipment and listening to something I like. It's work to process a lot of sound.
I like researching things, seeing the pictures, and reading the stories here. Always a small highlight that brightens my day. Had some headaches too this week, not fun. Hope you feel better soon :)
I tried to find a source too, and couldn't. I feel like my Google-fu might not be up to par today, but some things are just hard to find.
I read the article about the spunky hawk that survived in an eagle's nest. Interesting story, and well written :)
The voice matching game is fun. The voices are pretty distinctive, but I had trouble remembering the squares at first. Turns out, when you close your eyes to listen to the sound, it gets a teeny bit harder to remember the square. Lol.
Love the orange eyes. The article is interesting too. Some highlights:
- Each owl eats about 40 pounds of mice per year.
- They like to take a shower when it rains. You can see that here.
- The babies have different voices, higher or lower, so you can tell them apart. Example here (click on "juvenile calls")
- When they find an empty nest and there's a fight about who owns it, the winner is usually whoever lays the first egg.
- But sometimes two different kinds of birds lay eggs in the same nest. There's been at least one time where a couple of sparrowhawks successfully raised a long-eared owl chick.
- They enjoy the company of other long-eared owls. In the winter, owls from an entire region sometimes sleep in the same tree.
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The one around here makes a noise like this one right at the start of the video. It's pretty loud. It's not the screechiest sound I've heard. But then again, saw whets don't really sound like a saw to me.