I am relieved to say that I have not!
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Not sure about that. For some cultures, white is the color of mourning.
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If it wasn’t so common… what a lovely thought. Very aggressive at the feeder. Kind of a bully.
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My son raves about them regardless. I think there’s something very sweet about being really excited and interested in things that are so plentiful and easy to find/see. Especially in a world where it’s hard for a lot of people to feel excited about like, anything. I try to see things like him more often.
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Northern flicker! I love them. I have an amazing number of strongly mediocre photos of them in my observations because I can’t stop taking pictures of them.
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Have you seen the videos about starlings in Rome?
They get cameras right into the murmurations.
Also, you don’t want to park the car outside. Unbelievable.
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So amazing!
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For most it was, which only shows that this colour represents supernatural aspects of life, while black was used as a wedding colour, it definitely isn’t as popular nowadays.
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I’ve seen a flight of starlings fend off a kestrel on my way back home from work. Individually they’re gorgeous birds, as a mass they’re absolutely awe-inspiring, and that was several orders of magnitude smaller than in the video!
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That’s easy for me.
Horneros and chalk-browed mockingbirds are two super common native birds that every time I see them, I just take another pic!
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So where are the polar bear rump photos? LOL!
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I’ve grown more fond of them over time, but they were always a bird I found unattractive, even compared to their invasive peers, the house sparrows (and arguably rock pigeons, though they’re less harmful than the former IIRC). Oily little bullies, but with a remarkable range of vocalization.
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But why should we look at them as invasive? They’re native here, they’re looking wonderful, esp. different subspecies, sound amazing, and they don’t do anything bad, but eat worms.
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Xanthoria parietina
It’s by far the most observed lichen around here. And it’s so pretty! I always considered yellow my favorite color, so maybe that’s part of it? I’m clearly not the only one though, there’s 42k observations of it (for a lichen that’s unheard of). And there’s dozens of observers who have 100ds of observations of it 
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Oh, I meant in North America. Here they’re pests. Sort of like Eastern gray squirrels in Europe, I suppose. Charming here, bullies there.
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That’s a lovely shot! The colors are beautiful.
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Because after winter THAT is the most stunning color out there! The tiniest speck will catch my eye.
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