Calming_Pants

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[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Those look really nice, especially the suicidal tendencies one.

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

Most of the jays I hear sound more like life long chain smokers

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

Yep, Germany. Forgot to put it in the description. It's a Eurasian jay :)

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

Reminds me of a friend of mine who used to complain about a jay mimicking his cat, just so that he would put out cat food :D

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Calming_Pants@feddit.org to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

After some trial and error with the positioning, I finally managed to get some nice videos with the wildlife camera on my balcony. This jay seemed to have felt particulary talkative today - never heard one do these kinds of vocalizations.

Bonus crow

Germany, July 2026

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

For me the trick was to minimze the amount of hair that gets plucked per session. The idea is to first get to a state where you have plucked the majority of hair (this is the hard part). After that you can continuously epliate once a hand full of hair has regrown.

So for large areas like the legs, I inititally only epilated so much until I've had enough and continued the next day. I also would at times move the epilator in direction of growth; by this hairs are more likely to break off, but it reduces the density of hair on your skin at that moment and makes the epilation against direction of growth a lot more tolerable.

After this point, the number of hairs that grow in the first week or so should be greatly reduced. Epilate those, rinse and repeat. I usually epilate once a week, which doesn't take too long (esp. compared to the initial step) and doesn't really hurt because each time there are only a few hairs there.

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Joke's on the magpie, I would have fed it anyway :D

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Calming_Pants@feddit.org to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

Met this very cute magpie in the park today.

It seems like it hurt its leg since it stood on a single foot most of the time and did some impressive maneuvers with the opposing wing for balance.

It let me get surprisingly close and even accepted some peanuts which immediately got hidden under nearby bushes 😄

Location: Germany; May 2026

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

It works somewhat on a TV. You can close and reopen the video until it starts without or just a 5s skippable ad.

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My god the (fake) Linus is annoying....barely made it through the first five minutes

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Love the pattern! Do you plan to sew the scarf into a loop or keep it as it is?

 

Location: Germany, Nov 2025

I recently started laying out whole peanuts on my balcony in an attempt to attract some of the local crows, but caught the attention of three jays instead 😄

[–] Calming_Pants@feddit.org 6 points 9 months ago

Same, upgrading to 6.8 for the exact same reason right now 😅

 

There is probably some pun here I'm too uncreative to make.

Taken in Germany, Sept. 25 by my partner and uploaded with permission.

 

Some hand warmes with an owl cable stitch I finished recently. I didn't have much of a pattern, so I hope this post is still allowed.

Basically, I went off this picture for the owl/kable knit pattern and used some pattern for gloves to get the thumbs right.

I was thinking about maybe adding french knot stitches as eyes to make the owls more prominent, but I think I like the plain version better.

 

A male mandarin duck from last weekend's walk (Sept. 2025, Germany)

 
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