That would be the perfect children’s book…
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No, mine lives in a smallish town on the Kent coast of England 
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I took this last year around this time but it’s topical.
Went to get the mail and this giant bird flew down from the roof of my condo’s clubhouse building and landed right by me. It was a wild turkey, just chilling. It flew away a moment after taking this photo. (I’ve played enough Far Cry 5 to know that you do not fuck around with wild turkeys so I kept my distance.)
This was when I learned that there are wild turkeys where I live, and that they are pretty damn good at flying short distances.
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kinda looks like a peahen, only she’s missing the topknot feathers.
wild turkey hen, FTW!
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Today is the last day to enter this photo competition in Spain.
Wild Birds’ Nature Photography Competition, organized by FIO.
The competition has five categories (C1 Portraits of birds, C2 Birds in their environment, C3 Birds in action, C4 Artistic vision of birds and C5 Young photographers - for those under 18 years of age), as well as the special award ‘Extremaduran Photographer’.
This edition has a new special category of nature videos.
7,000 euros in prizes.
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Damn, think of how many more med kits you could be carrying right now!
I found this glorious critter posing on a fake Lilly pad in one of our small koi isolation ponds, which I was intending to winterize but which I might now have to hand over to the fae who clearly summoned it.
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Charles Darwin observed flowers, then tried to predict the pollinator. I wonder how he’d do with the red hot poker flowers?
Same material but with pictures:
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Ah, yes! Angræcum sesquipedale! I had an American Orchid Society membership & got their wonderful Bulletin back then, so I got to see the first pics of the moth caught in florante delecto. 
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