meower wrote: 
I know, right? I got all goosebumpy.

 Antigone wrote: 
WOW

Antigone wrote:
 
   Oooooh... beautiful, so nice.  

A short film about the young man in my office who is from Kenya.

Stained glass time lapse, Final edit from Colin Winterbottom on Vimeo.

 Antigone wrote: 
Very cool, thanks.

 Antigone wrote: 
Probably as cool to be in the middle of that as it was to see Green Day Thanks!

 Antigone wrote: 

Some really cool photographs here. For example:

 Antigone wrote: 
Used to work near a roosting area for about 10,000 crows. It was amazing to see the waves of them flying in at sunset. Quickly learned which bus stop not to use.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 


I have read (can't find the article during a quick search) that some corvids have two sets of languages—one used for a larger group like a flock (or murder) of crows, another for a smaller, family-like group. 

They can recognize individual humans by their faces (or masks) and remember how a human treated them. They can understand the death of one of their own. They are amazing problem-solvers (esp. the West Caledonian crow). 

Often during the fall winter days, crows by the hundreds would congregate on my elementary school's playgrounds and start cawing and flapping. Class would grind to a halt as everyone ran to the window, wondering if the crows were gathering to attack us a la "The Birds."

 Antigone wrote: 
Crows are cool.

This photo from Portland, Oregon that I saw on FB. With the caption: Forensic Evidence Division Criminalist Walker Berg took this amazing photo from the 12th floor of the Justice Center. We're calling it "Crows on Snow."

 Antigone wrote: 
Bigger version here:


And he has them on etsy too now.
 
What's cool is I could have guessed that there would be land-locked drainages around the Great Salt Lake, Salton Sea, Death Valley, and I'm pretty sure there's one in Oregon too. But this map shows several small drainages that just don't go anywhere. I wonder if they're all briny. The one in Oregon, there's a guy who farms brine shrimp but the lake is drying up.

 Antigone wrote: That is cool.