Photo of the Week: House Finch, Year-Round Resident

Bright red songbird with brownish wings and tail, perches on bare tree branch. Tree trunk and other branches in the blurred background.

It can be easy to overlook the resident House Finch. The small brown songbird with splashes of red color on its head and breast is common in the United States. It can be found year-round in yards, foraging for food on the ground, at feeders, or perched in trees and shrubs. In spring, our eyes… Continue reading Photo of the Week: House Finch, Year-Round Resident

5 Things I Learned About Mastodon

Mastodon website home page, with illustrated mastodon using binoculars to look at tagline of Social networking that's not for sale.

With the change of ownership and direction at Twitter, a lot of Twitter users have switched (or are considering switching) to Mastodon, the open-source decentralized social media network that launched in 2016.

I’m one of them.

Though I’m still using Twitter, it’s likely I’ll be making the switch to only using Mastodon soon.

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