Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.
If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.
If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.
nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.
scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.
fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.
Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…
The amount of baby birds I saved in my neighborhood because I ignored that false warning makes me so happy.
TOP TEN TERRIFYING FEMALE MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES
1. Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Yuki-onna (雪女), which translates to ‘snow woman’, is a spirit - or yōkai - in Japanese folklore. A popular figure in Japanese literature, anime, manga, animation, and film, she is said to appear on snowy nights as a tall, beautiful, inhumanly pale woman with black hair and blue lips wearing a white kimono with a red obi (although some legends describe her as being nude). She floats across the snow, leaving no footprints, to kill unsuspecting travelers by freezing them with her icy breath, or leading them astray and simply allowing them to die from exposure.
2. Qallupilluit (Inuit) - The subject of a popular book by children’s author Robert Munsch called “A Promise Is A Promise”, Qallupilluit are said to troll-like marine creatures which snatch children who have wandered too far into the ice of the open ocean. They are described as having scaly skin and a strong sulfurous odor, and have large pouches built into the backs of their duck-skin clothing for holding children in. Stories of the Qallupilluit describe them as waiting beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean, waiting to pull wayward children under the ice to live with them. Some elders have said that if the ocean begins to become wavy in an area or steam begins to rise from the ocean, a Qallupilluk might be hiding underneath the water.
3. Rusalka (Slavic) - A rusalka is the spirit of a female water nymph in Slavic mythology, and who were associated with an unclear spirit - women who either committed suicide by drowning due to an abusive or unhappy marriage, or who were violently drowned against their will (especially after becoming pregnant with unwanted children). Although not all are malevolent, they are invariably doomed to live out their life as rusalka, where their primary purpose is to lure handsome men to their deaths in the waterways where they drowned by entangling their feet with their long, red hair.
4. Scylla (Greek) - In Greek mythology, a Scylla (Σκύλλα) is a female monster that lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her male partner Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow’s range of each other - so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. The idiom, being “between Scylla and Charybdis”, was derived from this folklore, and means “having to chose between two evils”.
5. Harpies (Greek and Roman) - In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy (ἅρπυια) is a supernatural entity that appears to have the body of a bird and the face of a human. Their name, translating to “snatchers”, refers to the harpy’s tendency to eat, kill, and carry off evildoers (especially to the Furies).
6. Lamia (Greek) - A creature of Greek origin, Lamia is said to be the spirit of a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating demon. Coming from the Greek word for “gullet” (λαιμός), Lamia’s name is a reference to her habit of devouring children. Some accounts describe her as having a serpent’s tail below her waist.
In the myth, Lamia is a mistress of Zeus (go figure), which causes his wife, Hera, to becoming jealous. She reacts by killing all of Lamia’ children and turning her into a demon. Blinded by grief and loss, Lamia becomes envious of other mothers and begins consuming their children for herself. Some iterations of the tale involve Lamia being forced to devour her children herself, and being cursed with the inability to close her eyes, so that she must always be able to witness the horror of her actions.
#way to overreact hera #maybe zeus is the problem #did you ever consider that
7. Gorgon (Greek) - Gorgons were a popular figure in Greek mythology. Derived from the Greek word gorgos, meaning “dreadful”, the name “Gorgon” widely refers to a myth about any three sisters whose hair was composed of snakes, as well as a horrific ability that is capable of turning anybody who looks upon her countenance to stone.
8. Banshees (Celtic) - A banshee (ban síde), which translates to “woman of the mounds” in Old Irish, is a female spirit in Celtic mythology who heralds the death of prominent members of Gaelic families, usually by shrieking. Although she appears in many forms, the most common is in the form of an ugly old hag, wearing red or green clothing, an typically with long, disheveled hair. When several banshees appear at once, it indicates the death of someone great or holy. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as “those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath”.
9. Furies (Greek) - In Greek mythology, the Erinyes - also known as the Furies (Ἐρῑνύες) - were cthonic (“in, under, or beneath the earth”) deities of vengeance, sometime also referred to as the “infernal goddesses”. They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology.According to Hesiod, they came into being when the Greek Titan Cronus severed his father Uranus’ genitals, and cast them into the sea. The Furies were born of the three drops of blood that fell to the ground.
The Furies reside in Erebus, and their task is to hear the complaints brought to them by mortals, and to punish such crimes by relentlessly hounding the culprits until they repay what was owed. The Furies are described as being old crones, and have been described throughout history as having dog’s heads, coal-black bodies, blood-shot eyes, and bat’s wings. They are said to carry brass-studded scourges with them, and their victims die in torment.
10. Qarînah (Arabian) - In Arabian demonology, a Qarînah (قرينة ) - a concept similar to the Greek ‘succubus’, the Hindu ‘Yakshini’, and the Hebew ‘Lilin’ - is a hostile night spirit which attacks men, taking the form of an attractive woman to seduce men in order to drain their power through sexual activity. They are said to be invisible, but a person with “second sight” can see them, often in the form of a cat, dog, or other household pet - although these individuals cannot get married, or the Qarînah will kill them. Traditions hold that repeated intercourse with a Qarînah will result in death; and in certain African cultures, they are identified through their presence in dreams, and a feeling of intense tiredness upon awakening.
On the fourth day of Halloween, my true love gave to me
Three Furies and a banshee
Rhodochrosite with Tetrahedrite and Quartz - 32000€
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado
“What’s wrong?”
Berry visits his girl and attempts to kiss her better!
Blue bird: huh? What’s wrong? Kiss kiss? (Kissing noise) captioned-vines
this is so pure. i feel healed from this.
passumbapper I feel you would appreciate this
