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Aww, you remembered Nonamé! She's been doing a great job with the fosters. I saw an update yesterday but didn't think anyone would remember. Here, special for you!

Nonamé’s nursery school has some graduates! These great horned owlets have reached the stage we call "branching." During this phase, the owlets stretch their wings and make short flights to the perches within Nonamé’s enclosure.
To encourage them to continue strengthening their flight muscles, they have been moved to a larger enclosure with higher perching. To make this new space feel more like "home," we added leafy branches and tree limbs to mimic the environment they will encounter in the wild. We are monitoring the owlets closely to ensure they receive proper nutrition and maintain healthy feather growth and flight patterns. Once these young owls master this intermediate space, they will head to their final stop before release, our 100-foot flight enclosure.

anon6789 @lemmy.world 7h ago

Lol...took me a second seeing that out of context! 😄

See...your dermis means your hair...so technically it's true.

Pardon me a moment....

Hah hah!

anon6789 @lemmy.world 7h ago

He saw someone gave him that one downvote. How rude!

anon6789 @lemmy.world 7h ago

There are so many reasons we don’t know or don’t think of that might lead to less interaction.

That was one of the main things that helped someone get through to me one time was someone was saying it was spring break from college, which since I'm long out of school and don't have children, is something that I don't think about. Same with Lent. Taking a 40 day break from social media would be a nice idea for many, even without the religious aspect!

Even the Germans here aren’t reliable. They might not be good at smalltalk and fun conversations (speaking of cultural differences) but usually you can count on them to give their opinion - even if you didn’t ask for it 😅 Well, the grumpy news and politics threads are their natural habitat in a way. Germans are World Champion Complainers.

I've occasionally looked at the French community weekly thread when pseudo mentions something about superbowl and it seemed similar, just about 4 or 5 people just saying one sentence. I guess a lot of you are used to communicating online only in English? The more I try to be inclusive with posts here, featuring things from other places or even just making sure things include metric units, it makes me think what it would be like for most of the web to be non-English for me. I've been trying out DeepL at someone's recommendation here to translate things better and I found a new online multilanguage dictionary that seems great at listing owl names in other languages to help me find new international content that been yielding good results, but it's a good reminder how much gets hidden behind not being able to just read or speak things.

My family is Pennsylvania Dutch, and my grandparents could speak their language and I got to see them do business with the Amish people here, and it felt so alien to see them speaking a whole other language when we can't. We do have the difficulty making smalltalk other than grumbling, so we did inherit that!

Mostly men, IT, often gratuated university, socially “conscious” - meaning more left leaning in their political views, aware of social issues, inclusive.

I have been surprised over the years to see more of the commentors here are women than I expected. Probably not an equal portion of overall subscribers, but as far as people that actually leave comments, it might be fairly close. I'm always curious what our overall demographics are.

The little critter, a common pipistrelle, is fine.

Oh, that looks so cute! We do get bats in, but I don't normally get to see them. I'm not sure what we do to care for them, so I'm curious if there will be anything for me to do involving them this year. Usually I only see them at events, and I can barely tell they are there through the crowd of children and the person holding it. I have been on a lot of cave tours and have seen them there in the wild, which is fun.

Our bat populations were getting hit very hard with White Nose Syndrome, a fungal infection, that killed millions of bats, but I think the situation is gradually improving last I heard. A relative used to be a park ranger at one of our national parks and would give bat lectures for all the crowds of tourists. We got to know bats are harmless early on.

So good to hear you got diagnosed! That’s the first step though it must have been scary - especially becoming so tired while driving. Hopefully it will soon work out and you get your energy back!

The driving thing was scary, but at least that felt like a somewhat normal thing, basically just being too tired. What had me scared was for about the last year I've felt a real mental and physical decline, and especially the mental fog had me worried I was getting dementia or something like that. I had also been feeling depressed because I haven't had enough attention or energy to engage in my hobbies, so I felt like a bad student at my music class and I felt like a failure at the rescue because I haven't been able to commit or participate as much as I've wanted during the off season. So I'm really relieved I'm not dying or losing my mind and am just severely sleep deprived. I hear it can take a few weeks-months to bounce back, so I can't wait to start sleep therapy even if it is a bit of a hassle at first. Everyone else I know that has the CPAP says it is amazing once you get used to all the gear.

I have enjoyed talking with you and anyone else that may be interested in my life. We do have a rather active Dull Mens Club, so there may actually be others that find all this interesting!

I'm glad you and everyone else finds some happiness here every day. It is a lot of fun for me as well.

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 10h ago

My piano teach occasionally has owl themed stickers and I'll always snatch one to put in my lesson book. 😜

anon6789 @lemmy.world 10h ago

Saw Whets are some of the best! So much concentrated cuteness! 🥰

anon6789 @lemmy.world 10h ago

"Didn't hurt a bit! Barely felt it! I could do this all day!"

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 10h ago

Don't press hard - she's teeny!

anon6789 @lemmy.world 10h ago

They have such amazingly expressive faces. The Snowies might be the only ones to beat them.

anon6789 @lemmy.world 12h ago

The banana was for the scale.

The scale was for the owl.

The owl... Is for me! 😆

Seriously. I need a Saw Whet.

anon6789 @lemmy.world 12h ago

This one's been in my queue for a bit, and I can't help but smile every time I see it. The face is just amazing! 😁

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anon6789 @lemmy.world 12h ago

Update:

The saw-whet owl we triaged a couple days ago was transferred to Cape Ann Wildlife, Inc for further care. She had two broken bones and is pictured here showing off her new wrap that will hTep steady her wing while it heals.