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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat

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#AltText -low vision I use voice to text #GSD mom, #CatsIndoors, ♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 ✡️ My account first is an anti-war anti-colonialism account #AbolishIce #BDS I distract myself by posting my bird habitat my dogs’ @kodaeris.bsky.social

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 6h

At every protest, there is one chant that says everything “no justice no peace.”
Never has there been a true statement, a more predictive statement because people cannot live in bondage. They must be free. They cannot live in occupation. They cannot live under apartheid. 🇵🇸

a person holding a sign that says justice delayed is justice denied

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17d

Honestly a good dive into catios archive.is/jQZnj

How Does He Keep His Cats Safe Outdoors? With a $125,000 Catio

More homeowners are spending big on outdoor cat patios to let their pets roam and relax risk-free.

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 3m

Most of the birds that visit me love suet
The exception here are goldfinches and House finches, but they have plenty of seeds in my yard

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 29m

I have several captures where they are taking baths at the same time in close proximity as well

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, good to know.
At least our suet is fresh since we’re going through so much. 😆

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 1h

I think these two are friends, but they haven’t told their respective families yet.
#JayandFlicker
A flicker and a Jay in pretty close proximity, both drinking from the same small bird bath that sits on the ground #Birds
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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 3h

A little while later the female Downy comes #Birds

I go through 2 to 3 squares of suet a day. Isn’t that crazy? All I have up right now is one log feeder shown here and the ground feeder. The log holds two suet squares. There is nothing left on the ground the little ground feeder birds eat it all.

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 3h

There is no cease-fire for Palestinians. This is only about Israeli hostages.

We know that when one country has impunity from international law, these are just words they mean nothing.

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 4h

Palestinians have been denied justice, denied their freedom, work criminals, who committed the atrocities are still free and speaking on mainstream media.

Palestinians live under a brutal apartheid, occupation and siege like no other in history. How can there be lasting peace?

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like a goldfinch is on the very left at the start of this clip

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 4h

You can skip to the very end if you like the Kinglet get on camera for maybe a second.
The yellow Rumped warbler sitting on the log is what tripped the camera

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 4h

I pretty much have figured out that a Ruby Crowned Kinglet is never going to set off the camera and if I see one it’s going to be accidental, one who just happens to get on film after another bird triggered it. This is the case today. #Birds

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d

Those of us who were saying #abolishICE for the past decade knew what we were talking about

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 6h

a person holding a sign that says justice delayed is justice denied

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 6h

This is why I never checked his feeder 90% of my videos are of this:
A squirrel trying to get through it out of the heater sometimes they actually bite off the ceramic to get to the feeder. Still looking for a perfect suet feeder. There is one in the UK that I want to try…someday.

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, and look! Here is RedHead. I really should remember to check this camera more often. #Birds
(A male Downy woodpecker on a log suet feeder)

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 7h

Here is cute little red breasted nuthatch on the same little branch #Birds

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 7h

I often forget to check this camera. It usually has a squirrel trying to get through it or a Flicker but today here is a little Bewick’s Wren. She must be sitting on a branch that isn’t showing on the camera, which is very lucky for me. #Birds

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 7h

I love how my year old wild native grape looks under this amber light.
My house is usually so surrounded by plants and dark that the kids won’t come up and trick-or-treat so I come to them and sit on the sidewalk. I added a light here when I added the arbor.

We’re looking at my sidewalk and there is a walkway up to the house the great leafs are shining in the amber light. There’s also some orange motion activated lights on the pond behind me honestly so that I can deal with any rats that I see.

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Kelsey Lagunas @kelseyelagunas.bsky.social · 9h

The sky seemed to have dumped a ton of thrushes into Central Park Thursday- most of which were Hermit like this one here. #birds

Round hermit thrush with its head peaking into a beam of light

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 8h

I had to mute another fascist propaganda phrase today
“Nobel Peace Prize”

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 9h

Good Morning everyone, Raccoon family overnight
These look younger than the other family that visits.

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 20h

I found one more of little Pacific Wren. Also a Millisecond. #Birds

Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 22h

Oh look quickly it’s the shy Pacific Wren is here today.
I’ve now seen three passing thru (or it is the same one staying for a while) so I predict a snowy cold winter and these mostly non-migrates are coming to the Puget Sound lowlands for winter. #Birds

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 1d

If you voted for this, don’t expect my vote ever again. And I will work to defeat you and work with anyone that runs against you for the rest of my life.

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House, Senate pass 'National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk' ahead of memorial service

Days before funeral of Charlie Kirk, the Senate and House has passed a "National Day of Remembrance" for the conservative influencer after he was killed last week.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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