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[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Eww, oh, ok. ๐Ÿ˜ Still a super good idea.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Iโ€™m packing the bike and off

That is a super good idea ๐Ÿ˜€ If you do, please post or crosspost something to !bicycle_touring@lemmy.world. First weeks of September i'll be on my bike again too, looking forward to that.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That looks so sweet. Are there already bears in the area or do they stay on slovakian side ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

Really like that city as a visitor.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hm, yeah was just a guess. I could not live with screeching brakes either, the horror of riding a screeching loaded bike down a high alpine pass ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hot take on AI here on lemmy :)

I didn't know the other apps are not working offline. But yeah, another whobird user here.

Favorite use was when i was cycling up a mountain in france and heard some close by birds bickering at me. Never had heard those sounds before, so i had a look on whobird and to my surprise it was "100% - golden eagle" - i thought it was some songbird i didn't know. I stopped, looked up the tree right next to me, then saw them both take off. Awesome stuff.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Probably was just your rim / brake pad mix. I remember had a screeching bike like this too when i was young, but on my current bike with v brakes it does not screech.

If i would buy new, i probably would want to go for disc brakes, not that there'd be much other choice, haha. But i feel people have a warped view on v-brakes, i have no real complaints. Super simple mechanics. Big alpine passes, loaded bike, in the rain.. the stuff that people tell you is impossible is in my lived reality no problem at all. And holy shit do brake pads last a long time on those. I still like v-brakes, certainly not something that makes me want to buy a new bike.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

What a cute little ducky.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah i don't think it works in Jerboa, but the web UI has an option to crosspost.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I use those small paper tea filters. Bit tricky to pour over, but no need for any holders or whatever. Brought an aeropress a couple times too but figured it's not worth it for me, i will use it at home though. I want to save on the "bulk" of an aeropress though, haha.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 8 points 6 days ago

Pee bottle and fairy lights.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Love that chair, you can also use it in the tent unlike other chairs. Most of the times i use it as a lounger with the seat area single layered.

 
 

I am not sure if this can even be called a pizza crime because it's available in almost any pizzeria in Italy, may even be listed under the "classic pizza" section. I don't remember seeing this one at home and i have always been kinda keen to order it but never dared to.

So now I saw it in a focacceria and figured this was my chance - just a quick transaction, then I can eat it alone, somewhere where nobody sees me ๐Ÿ˜

Well, it was a bit underwhelming tbh. I might have to try it again with freshly fried fries, in a pizzeria, and eat it before the eyes of everybody else.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by bonjour@mander.xyz to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

cross posted from !crows@lemmy.ml

There is this little crow at Piazetta Savoia in Cagliari who left its nest a bit early two weeks ago. The staff of the surrounding gastronomy fed it and now it is absolutely not scared of people and hangs around there. Doing all kinds of dorky baby crow stuff. Really crazy to see, never seen this before. It made me jump just now, as it nibbled on my sandals as I am writing this.

I passed by here earlier in the morning and was glad to not see it here, so it does seem to have a bit of a life outside of the Piazetta.

I am no crow expert, but I know that it quite often happens that crows leave their nest too early and then keep sitting on the ground. That does not mean the parents don't care for it anymore, but they may still be feeding it. So I would not just pick up a sitting baby crow before observing if the parents are still there for it. It could take a couple hours though.

 
 

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.

 

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..

 

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 ๐Ÿฅฐ Made my day.

 

Love the light there in the evening.

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