Allegedly gold finches are around me year round but I never see or hear them in the winter. I get so excited to see their bright yellow faces with black unibrows. Glad you’re seeing their colors pop too!

They’ve become real hissy bois since the chicks were born

It’s getting a little frustrating that every company seems to want a few dollars per month from me. I get that it is expensive to maintain servers and keep programmers on staff to write and maintain the software, but I really hate being nagged by everything I own to buy more stuff.

I also wonder how silly all of these subscriptions are. Especially for running. Do you need your Garmin or Polar watch to tell you what workout to do and when? Or should you follow a well established routine like Pfitz or Daniel’s running formula (or something more casual)? Do you need your data synced to the cloud and shared with Strava? Are the virtual “kudos” from others what’s keeping you motivated? Do you need your watch to tell you how that workout went compared to past workouts? Or should you figure out how to listen to your body and make that evaluation yourself?

Maybe these subscriptions provide someone useful for beginners who don’t know how to do the above. I’m just a little curmudgeonly and I really just need a watch that gives me distance and time.

Maybe their diet would shift but a lot of animals eat ticks. Frogs and toads, many smaller birds like warblers and probably house sparrows and robins, chickens love them, and of course opposums and mice.

Similar for mosquitos. I see the house sparrows around here catching mosquitos all the time. I’m pretty sure dragon flies feed heavily on them too.

Wow I haven’t read a good chunk of this list, and I thought I was a sci-fi book afficionado. Thanks for adding to my summer reading list! Might start with either Parable of the Sower or Never Let Me Go.

I did my first track workout on Thursday. Felt good so went for a run yesterday. Took some won’t turns and ended up doing 15 miles. Today is supposed to be my long run but I might just do a recovery run because I’m so tired!

I tried that out and posted the picture in another comment in this thread (lemmy.world/comment/10346090). I think it’s better but I have some more to learn. Your photo is brilliant!

Thanks, that’s exactly how I took the photo. It was approaching sunset so I think the colors are a little yellow because of that and just how brown the river is. I adjusted the colors like the other comment suggested and I think it looks better:

Thanks, I’ve been practicing getting the focus sharp. It’s a tough battle between my phone’s autofocus vs manual bino adjustments and keeping the phone+bino stable.