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So this morning I captured on camera (thru my bay window) some European Starlings at their best … just for the fun of it. Here they are Terri
@BenAdrienProulx April 19th, 2024.
I hate starlings. yeah I said it. I love birds but those little shitlings can piss off, I say. when looking into them i discovered the story of eugene schieffelin. the man who introduced these horrid birds to north america, and the fifth issue of blugg dives right into the story.
did north america really get the starling because some dude was a big william shakespeare fan?
Despite the snow today,
spring is definitely coming, and there are signs everywhere. One of them is that the Starlings are beginning to change into their summer plumage. They are losing the spots and become glossy and iridiscent, the beaks are turning yellow, and the legs are becoming more red. They are travelling in groups with Grackles, Cowbirds and Redwinged Blackbirds, one of which also visited today. It appears to be an immature male.
Doodles I did of Gus and Wrenfield. Probably gonna end up doing summer and winter molt adults too, but we’ll see. Look at nugget’s little face tho- she’s just she’s so happy with herself.
Eventually, these will be stickers purchasable on my Etsy shop when I open it, I just want to finish enough first.
Working on finishing up a cloak for a cosplay while Nugget was out. She thinks she needs to steal my fleece.
I’ve been wanting to make art for Gus since it happened. I’ve been wanting to. I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it. I’ve known she deserves it. I’ve wanted to. I think I’ve been afraid to remember. I’ve wanted to. But I haven’t.
This has been my mourning song for her. Nugget and I have been singing it together for months. I’ve cried over it. I was talking to my mom about ideas for Etsy stickers because I thought I might finally be ready to begin making starling art again, and she mentioned something about a silhouette of a starling with the night sky on it’s back, and this is what immediately came to mind. So. After too long. Too long. I drew her. My beautiful, first Star Child. I can’t sell this version for copyright reasons, but I’m okay with that. This was for me. This was for her. And that feels right.
I was putting my pin curls in while Nugget was out last night and she kept jumping on my hand to try and steal my bobby pins. And then she proceeded to try and bathe in the back of my wet hair. As annoying as it was, it made me happy, so I doodled it.
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Some highlights:
Little baked good paperweights/desk buddies
THE MOSS AUTISM CREATURE
PINS- designing these and their backs was so fun-
Stickers of little fall mammals doing cute things
All the new opossum and starling items
I just realized that I never introduced you all to Katydid, nugget’s cagemate that we acquired over the summer. He was found under the hitch of a friend’s fifth wheel after they’d gotten to their campsite. Which is honestly really depressing because it means his siblings fell out on the way. But on a brighter note, he does not have spinal trauma, and he and Nugget get along wonderfully and banter like the sillies they are.
He really. And I mean REALLY. Likes baths. And he jumps on my hand to play in the sink water every time it gets turned on. He is stupid.
peachtober week 1 but its just birds
Pretty lil fella fell down my chimney this morning, pretty sure theyre trying to make a nest up there(again, this happens at least once every year)