28 సెప్టెంబర్, 2026

Crane rise.

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IN THE COMMENTS: Everyone's saying heron.
వీరిచే పోస్ట్ చేయబడింది Ann Althouse వద్ద 12:33 PM
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Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

great shots. The wing span photo is very nice.

28-09-26 1:23 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...

Beautiful pics!

28-09-26 1:34 PM
Clyde చెప్పారు...

That looks like a great blue heron to me.

28-09-26 1:39 PM
minnesota farm guy చెప్పారు...

Clyde is correct - it's a Great Blue heron. Neck is too long for a Sandhill.

28-09-26 1:54 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...

I will see your great blue heron and raise you a magnificent frigate bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_frigatebird

28-09-26 3:08 PM
Big Mike చెప్పారు...

We have blue herons here in the Shenandoah Valley. Magnificent birds.

28-09-26 3:18 PM
rehajm చెప్పారు...

Really? I don’t see many cranes but out days are thick with herons. The light is low bur there’s something about the head/beak proportions and the wingspan that make me declare conclusive….and while I believe Ann a moron for Strunk and Whiting headlines I shall remain consistent and recognize the benefit to the headline regardless of species…

28-09-26 4:06 PM
rehajm చెప్పారు...

…our…but…inconclusive…apologies, new phone…

28-09-26 4:09 PM
Not an oldster. చెప్పారు...

Now THAT is a picture worth posting.

Good job, ann!
Thank you for sharing...

28-09-26 4:20 PM
Not an oldster. చెప్పారు...

Blue Heron Blvd in South Florida takes you onto Singer Island... special place, the barrier island just north of Palm Beach.

28-09-26 4:22 PM
Not an oldster. చెప్పారు...

Sandhills are more the field birds, right?
And the herons are the fishers...

28-09-26 4:23 PM
rehajm చెప్పారు...

….I beg to differ Blogger. I’m timeless…

28-09-26 4:26 PM
J L Oliver చెప్పారు...

There are 8 types of herons on Wisconsin. Could be a grey heron.

28-09-26 5:05 PM
Iman చెప్పారు...

“You know… I have one simple request, and that is to have Madonna and her dancers with frickin' laser beams shooting out of their asses!"

https://x.com/imfiredup2/status/2104360569415561382?s=46

28-09-26 5:34 PM
john mosby చెప్పారు...

Very strange news story: the chief software engineer for the NYT games apps was shot and killed in Dublin, California, apparently by his in-laws. From his pic he seems Eurasian; from their names the in-laws seem Chinese.

https://people.com/new-york-times-executive-found-fatally-shot-in-park-77-year-old-in-laws-arrested-12145641

CC, JSM

28-09-26 5:59 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...
ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.
28-09-26 6:24 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit చెప్పారు...

Lesbian bar story is hilarious.
YouTube: link to video

28-09-26 6:29 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

Iman - that looks like something that would please hell.

28-09-26 6:30 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

Lem -
Wow -thanks. That is wild.
Basically a modern Karl Marx story.

28-09-26 6:35 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

Learned a new Marxist word: "Able-ist"

28-09-26 6:37 PM
Narr చెప్పారు...

It has been five or six weeks since the big storm here that left 140k without power for days or weeks. The city has done a loyt of repair and cleanup, and individuals have cut down a lot of damaged trees, but on our street and within a few blocks only one out of seven or eight streetlamps are working.

Makes the nightly walks much more challenging, even with flashlights.

In avian affairs, we haven't seen any hummingbirds in almost a week.

28-09-26 7:03 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"within a few blocks only one out of seven or eight streetlamps are working."

Stargazing!

28-09-26 7:32 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

O Mike and other star-gazers
Ever see Andromeda Galaxy? Certain times of the year if the conditions are right - it can be seen.
I have not. yet. It's a goal.

28-09-26 8:03 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Hundreds of times, Peachy.
Never gets old.

28-09-26 8:04 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

Hundreds of times - you lucky duck.

28-09-26 8:16 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Nah, you just get out and do it.

28-09-26 8:26 PM
Narr చెప్పారు...

Even without streetlamps there's a lot of light pollution that makes it hard to see anything but Luna--at least with my poor eyesight. My wife points at things I can't make out, and our western view needs Venus to be pretty high.

28-09-26 8:38 PM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

O Mike.
Finding dark sky isn't easy. But you are right.
I was lucky ducky May 2025. In Utah. Staying and an Air bnb in a small town. Walked over to the empty hotel. They had a silo tricked out into an actual observatory. Spoke to the wife at the front desk. She got me in and I wasn't even trying. anyway - just after sunset- bam - Jupiter and its stripes thru the big telescope.
He didn't tell me what I would see. I said - that's Jupiter!
Yep. So amazing.

28-09-26 9:16 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Dark sites can require a trek. My dark site out of Madison is
1-1/2 from home. In the summer, dark is just out the door.

28-09-26 9:48 PM
Michael McNeil చెప్పారు...

I saw Andromeda [M31] naked-eyed (and everything else) from a hot spring in remote Idaho. My wife's (at the time) comment: “But it's so dim!” Indeed it is.

But, contrary to myth, Andromeda isn't the dimmest and farthest away galaxy visible to unaided eyesight. That honor belongs to the even dimmer Triangulum [M33] (also a spiral) galaxy, located in the northern sky not far from Andromeda. I haven't seen it with eyes alone.

As far as Andromeda is concerned, these days I prefer to see it (where you can *see* it) through 10x70 binoculars.

28-09-26 10:40 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

M33 thread

28-09-26 11:13 PM
john mosby చెప్పారు...

More on the NYT engineer shooting: The NY Post reports he has a checkered past of domestic violence. This consists of a misdemeanor conviction for slapping his child, a police visit to his house when his wife had a bruised arm, and another visit by authorities that revealed a kid alone - in a room.

So basically 1970s family life.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/28/us-news/nyt-exec-allegedly-shot-by-in-laws-charged-with-child-abuse-in-2025/

CC, JSM

29-09-26 2:38 AM
rehajm చెప్పారు...

… cranes aren’t really wade fishermen are they? Then again heron rise dun quite cut it…

29-09-26 5:24 AM
Not an oldster. చెప్పారు...

John,
But how many kids back then had a trans man dad?

Sounds like his ethnic in laws weren't on board with their daughters choice of partner and were abusive on that account. RIP

(How do perfectly passable trans men give themselves away as cis women? They are always still smiling, big smiles... Bio men dont do that...)

29-09-26 8:08 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

From O Mike's link /another thread.

"Oh, I avert the hell out of my vision :-)
You'll never see Cigar or Sombrero naked eye. M33 is supposedly the most distant object you can see naked eye, which is why I keep trying.

I have 3 scopes. Two Dobs, a 15" Obsession and a 12.5" Teeter. The Teeter is a travel scope I take to New Zealand each year. Also a 5" refractor from Tele Vue. The largest amateur scope I've had the privilege to observe with is a 30". That was a treat!"

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You go to New Zealand EACH year? Super jealous.
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thanks O Mike and M McNeil
M33.

29-09-26 8:28 AM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

Peachy - Pretty much every year. We go for the stars.

Now is a good time of year to observe Andromeda (M31), Peachy. It's high up in the evening sky.

You need to get out of the city. The darker the better, but for M31 it doesn't need to be super dark. It's big and "bright" (it's actually dim, but bright compared to other deep sky objects). This time of year, when you go out to the country, go any direction away from the city except west. M31 will be in the eastern sky and if you go west you'll be looking back towards the light dome above the city and that will degrade visibility.

You want to observe after dusk ends (i.e. full dark), currently about 9pm. Later (10 or 11pm) is even better, as M31 will be higher in the sky, which is good. Also, the moon must be below the horizon.

You also need to "dark adapt" your eyes. No lights for half an hour. A dimmable flashlight with a red lens is ideal, but even that should be used sparingly.

Now, finding it. If you have a friend who knows where it is and he's got a green laser to point it out, you're golden. Otherwise, you'll need to find it yourself. I can't help you much here; it's in the constellation of Andromeda, so perhaps a stargazing app on your phone (or, better, tablet). Familiarize yourself with where you'll be searching before you go out and set the brightness on the device to its lowest setting.

You'll want to use "averted vision", when scanning the sky in the correct vicinity; which means don't try looking right at it, look slightly to the side; your eyes are more sensitive slightly off center. And binoculars will be a huge help. If you slowly scan the correct area with binoculars you are sure to find it. It's BIG.

When you write it all down, it sounds like a lot, but it's really not. It's enjoyable, and observing our companion galaxy is a worthy goal. While you're out there, take in the rest of the night sky before the satellites trash it.

Clear Skies!

29-09-26 9:45 AM

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