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A wild tit appears

Dear diary,

A great tit flew into our house today. It probably landed on the sill below our bedroom window and found itself on the wrong side of the glass when trying to leave. Maybe it followed a tasty insect inside, or maybe it was a juvenile, too young to have learned that houses are scary places.

In any case, it came crashing through the living room while I was playing with our 7-month old. I rushed to get the veranda door open, while it fluttered from a curtain to the sofa to a hanging lamp cord. Door finally open, it chose a potted cactus on top of a cabinet as the perfect spot for an emergency landing and a bit of a poo.

Great tit (Parus major) perched on a potted cactus indoors.

Silly bird.

I suspect tits are unfamiliar with cacti, but it showed a remarkable ability to avoid impaling itself, even in a panic. By now the bird was exhausted, so I gently lifted the cactus outside, took a quick bird portrait, and left it alone. It sat there for a while, petrified, but by the third time I peeked outside it was gone.

Closeup of great tit (Parus major) perched on a cactus branch.

One stressed out Parus.

Stay safe, little great tit.

Instagram pics from Oslo, 2014–2019

Deleted my personal Instagram account some time last year, but thought I’d repost some pics here for posterity. The first batch are photos from my old hometown of Oslo. (Warning: I’m the only person to find these interesting.)

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Link dump special: Signs and storefronts reference

Hitting tumblr in search of storefront reference images. Here are a few good ones:

Also, Colossal has featured some great illustrators drawing Korean and Japanese storefronts:

More cloud spotting

Such a dramatic sky today, had to snap some pictures out of the car window.

Turbulent clouds over Modum, Norway

What causes those flowing, sharp edges? Is it some kind of lenticular variety? It's been pretty windy, I bet it has something to do with turbulence, at least.

Turbulent clouds over Modum, Norway

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