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[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah. It kinda looked to me like the terrain would fall off after the horizon.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Lack of airstream too. Currently cycling at high temperatures and when there's no breeze I am dying on the climbs, overheating. Feels so refreshing if the incline becomes mellower or flat and you get some airstream.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That looks sweet. Is it some kind of high plateau?

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Always got to watch out for drempels, even in France 😆

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh i remember that feeder, I was the one asking how you made it in the post you linked from my old account, haha.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Love it. There is one couple in my yard but it never made it to my balcony, not that I know of. Only the wood pigeons. You got food there too or just the water?

I am right now sitting in a cafe, watching a collared dove bring sticks to the wistoria roof that covers the outdoor seats of the cafe.

Edit:

There it is 🥰

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I am checking in too, learned about the Blackcap's song a month ago with the whobird app. I don't remember the song really but I remember I thought it does not really sound like a robin and also not like a blackbird.

Those apps are so nice to have.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

That was between Bitti and Nuoro, quite close to Bitti though. I am now in Orgosolo, eating gelato :)

 

When I was about to break down my tent, six white Sardinian shepherd dogs showed up. Beautiful medium sized dogs. They were barking a bit, kept a bit of distance, eventually figured I was alright, then left. Guess they had work to do.

I left camp and cycled along this dirt track, which seemed to be a real promising panoramic path to go, when I ran into the group again. The sheep were right at the track and the dogs blocked my way. I stood there for a bit, tried what happened if I pushed my bike a bit more towards them, but they did not seem to like that whatsoever. Bummer. Well at least they left me alone through the night, i heard the sheep's bells and dog's barks all around me when i got here yesterday and was a bit worried they'd bark me out of the spot in the night.

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Anyway, i did not want to test how far they would go and decided to turn around and take a different route along some asphalt road, which was also real nice, nobodz around but some cows, sheep and cork trees.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz -1 points 5 days ago

Are you ashamed of your post history or why did you create a new account for this noble cause?

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you, that is such a nice way to describe my rambling 😆

 

Crosposted from !pigeon@mander.xyz

One of my favorite things about staying at official camp sites is that the birds in the area know that humans leave crumbs.

Lured some collared doves to my tent. I hope they'll have breakfast with me tomorrow.

Now i looked up what the difference between doves and pigeons is again. I thought there was no difference other than something etymological, dove obviously has Germanic roots, pigeon is French. In German and I believe Dutch they are all called doves (taube, Dutch: duif). But then I read an article which claimed this:

All species and breeds of pigeons have 80 chromosomes while all species and breeds of dove have 76 or 78 chromosomes.

But the feral's ancestors are called rock doves? Are they just named wrong, are they not doves?

French also has the colombe word for what I guess the English call doves, and the rock doves are also called colombe des rochers but i think mostly pigeon biset..

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So refreshing seeing your posts here. Thanks for sharing.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Oh that sounds nice, never heard of this before.

 

Hello bird friends. I have created a pigeon community to not post too much pigeon stuff here, as i don't think it fits all that well, but on some occasions i feel like it'd be fine to post. Like this one i took yesterday of this sweet couple. If you like pigeons, you are very welcome to !pigeon@mander.xyz .

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/30632431

Just caught these two sitting together in the water dish 🥰 Made my day.

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