ryan

this birding shit is easy

truly was driving through north dakota's prairie pothole region yesterday thinking "this is heaven on earth"

birdwatching will have you saying things like "for my next vacation we're choosing between ohio, new jersey, and north dakota"

Breaking news: A Ford dealership in Kansas can't release a sold F-250 because a robin moved in first. An employee at the dealership located outside Kansas City noticed a robin building a nest on the tire of a brand new F-250 that was already sold. The robin laid four eggs and successfully hatched them. The truck is now stuck on the lot until the chicks fledge, because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to disturb an active nest of any native bird in the United States. The buyer has been a good sport. The dealership called it the only F-250 in America currently protected under federal law.

Bird of paradise is a terrible name for a category of bird because every bird is from paradise

@HellgateOsprey "Wrong parents baby" NG2 arrived . "Is this what Osprey chick looks like ?" lol NG2 chick made its way back to entrance to Nest Niche Phew 12:39 pm May 20

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saw what seemed to be a crow-sized bird in the sky today and could not get a single fucking photo of it

@fag_daughter The craziest one for me is that some individual vagrants will return to the same spots every year if they like it. we have a swainson's hawk that has bafflingly returned to a dump in brooklyn every february for the past four winters

Do the same birds typically come back to the same spots each year?

Its too late. I have already depicted you as the furious tree swallow frantically flapping its wings and screaming and myself as the tree swallow impassively perched on a branch.

pipes got lead

@tserrhyo @Liamjsm i'm just having fun online, thankfully this is not the most serious thing happening on the computer today

@RyanFMandelbaum @Liamjsm i respect train more than saying ehleye double ar. i live in atlanta now and not a single person can bring themselves to call it the train, its the marta, marta-ing, marta’d 😵‍💫 whole thing feels racist

real heads call it the train. why would i need to specify otherwise

i've been tuning in to some biggie lore and some city blogger should really profile the aggressive goofball swan that lives on prospect park lake

@MollyCohn 🦊🧤🧔👅

fox 👏 glove 👏 beard 👏 tongue 👏

dinosaur

@RaenbowRenegade x.com/RyanFMandelbau…

@RyanFMandelbaum To differentiate between the subway and the railroad. I can’t call them both of the train. I take both daily.

@Liamjsm @tserrhyo i currently live at your mom's house. however, i grew up in southwestern nassau county and took the train to the city weekly or more from when I was 9 until i was in college, and then again for two years while i was living at my parents house during grad school

@RyanFMandelbaum @tserrhyo where do you live?

@emily_lip @katie_honan @Justin_Vogt emily i think you're the only person who i've met who calls it the lurr and tbh i always thought you were just being silly

@katie_honan @Justin_Vogt this explains everything

I grew up on Long Island, have rode the LIRR my whole life, and still regularly do so. I've truly never heard anyone call the LIRR "the lurr." Not once. nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyr…

@tserrhyo insanely stupid. the subway is the subway. the train is the train

@RyanFMandelbaum RIGHT!!! and then in queens they call it the lurr to distinguish it from the subway