Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Some steps in the evolution of my workstation:

1. Workbench as desk
2-3. Switched to standing desk
4. Added monitor arms

Next steps: Get at least one bigger monitor, setup up my cable management game.

Three different kinds of woodpecker in my back yard today. Yellow-bellied sapsucker (male, then female), hairy woodpecker (male), then downy woodpecker (female).

You can tell the hairy and downy woodpecker apart because the hairy woodpecker has a longer beak, and the downy woopecker has black bands on her white inner tail feathers.

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Wow, that's a... significant bulk discount on extension cords.

Some Eastern Bluebirds at the feeder the other day. Male first, then female.

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Male and female northern cardinal.

Possibly a breeding pair? They showed up together, and I didn't see any other cardinals around.

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TFW a tufted titmouse tries to photobomb you.

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Looking at some old pictures of baby starlings waiting to get fed and something jumped out at me...

Looks like another kind of bird has discovered my feeder...

Red-shouldered hawk next to a brave or foolish white-breasted nuthatch.

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Ah, so we're at that stage of the talk preparation process...

I also saw this hawk on the way home. I'm thinking red-tailed hawk.

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Went to feed the geese at the river this morning and I saw this bald eagle!

It was tough to take a picture of it, but I got a reasonably clear one.

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Excuse me, Mr. Goose, you seem to have a little something on your beak...

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More #birding photos, some Blue Jays that stopped by the feeder the other day.

Putting up LED strips to improve the lighting in my #workspace; the strips are long enough to run 4 of them along my ceiling and 3 joists to reasonably hang them on. What do y'all think, should I double up the middle one, the one in front of me or the one behind me?

Anyone know what kind of bird this is at my feeder?

Pictures don't really capture it well, but it's got some yellow-brown feathers on its back and head, very muted (I suspect this bird is a much brighter yellow during breeding season) a brown beak, white underbelly.

They seem to like thistle seeds.

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Customers today so far:

- Tufted titmouse
- White-breasted nuthatch
- European starling
- Black-capped chickadee
- Downy woodpecker
- Squirrel

Pictures are squirrel with tufted titmouse and tufted titmouse from yesterday.

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Put up a bird feeder in the back yard last night, I've already seen three (non-squirrel) customers:

- Bluejay
- Downy woodpecker
- Black-capped chickadee

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And here are two pictures of the (adult male, I think) white-breasted nuthatch I got through the binoculars this morning.

I am much more confident in this identification.

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Here are some pictures of the yellow-headed warbler I saw yesterday (managed to snap a few not great pictures through the binoculars this morning).

I think they are black-throated green warblers, despite the fact that none of the ones I saw were actually black-throated.

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Having a pulse oximeter is kinda fun, though it's disconcerting that the pulse number starts blinking when it falls under 60 bpm, considering my normal HR is usually something around 50 bpm.