Can we Yankistanis get Sasquatch funding to surreptitiously study our forests?!
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I came soooo close to owing you a coke!
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Great minds, etc, Baby!
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Hmm; well there’s always jackalopes’ and chupacabras’ habitats to investigate! Any other cryptids in threatened areas? Wendigo?
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Yeah, gotta get that arctic cryptid funding!
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There is a documentary:
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Ah, the Himalayas! They want studying, too!
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Yeah, plenty of cryptids.
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More mundane, alas, than cryptids or Trochilidae, but anyway, here are dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis).
These only show up here for the winter, so they’ll be gone in a couple of weeks until Oct. or Nov.
And while we’re at it, here’s the year-round denizen (again), black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) or possibly Carolina (P. carolinensis) chickadee
(Best I could do from that far away)
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I love juncos and chickadee-dee-dees!
I learned how chickadees say “Fuck” one morning a number of years ago. I was broadcasting seed off the back porch, and didn’t see a dee-dee-dee who was hanging around. A cloud of summa the seed squarely hit them, and they reacted by flying straight up in the air while making a very angry-sounding buzzing noise. I profusely apologized, and still hope they wound up getting plenty of the offending seed.
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Are they really though? Cryptids are stories people tell each other, and so ultimately only about ourselves. Even a relatively ordinary bird like a junco is a real living thing with its own world apart from us. It’s possible there are surprises about how they see and interpret things that no human yet knows.
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Ah! Well, thx for that! 
More of the chickadee, but this time without the phone’s inner Deckard yelling “enhance!!”
I hear that more often from the tufted titmice, which aren’t hanging around as much today. Wait! There’s one now:
I think I heard the pileated woodpecker(s?) earlier, & my daughter reported seeing something “big” go by, but no visual yet.
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There’s a whole bunch of short videos of people cleaning barnacles off of whales; it almost looks like there is special equipment for it. This whale is certainly sticking around for the process, so it must not mind it, or actively enjoys it. ETA; welp, looks like I’ve been taken in by AI, folks. So enjoy this as an aspirational video.
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A buncha the comments say it’s ai 
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Awww; too bad! It looks real to me. Should I delete the comment, do you think?
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I dunno! I tried asking Gogol about it and got nothing definite. 
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Because google is also largely AI now, and doesn’t even know what lying is any more, to know whether it’s doing it or not.
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Lotsa reddit posts came up, and true to Gogol’s usual form, nothing about the vid was mentioned in the reddit stuff on the “results” page.
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As a possible replacement, enjoy a non-AI cow brush.
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