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Unusual Looking Burrow Owls (lemmy.world)
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From Izzy Edwards

I was absolutely shocked to see not just two, but five fully grown Barn Owls emerge from this tiny hole in the dirt. I have no idea how they all fit comfortably in there! Image taken well after sunset.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't poke my head in here too often, curious how they look unusual.

Also, warning for fellow Facebook haters, source link is a Facebook link. No hate to OP, I get you are just posting the source to properly credit the photographer, and if Facebook is where the picture was originally posted…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a somewhat reversed owl joke.

The typical scenario is where there is something like a Great Horned Owl in a barn, and someone will inevitably say "that's a funny looking Barn Owl!"

The birds in the OP photo are Barn Owls, but they are in a more burrow-like nesting spot, so this is my "these are funny looking Burrowing Owls!".

Here are some Burrowing Owls and their burrows so you can see they are obviously nothing alike.

Facebook links are pretty necessary for me. I know you all hate it. All the rescues are on it though as it is free, easy to use anytime, anywhere, and reaches the most people at once, so that is where the bulk of animal content with stories will be coming from.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OP, I'll say horrible things about facebook all day, but you totally get a free pass. You're doing the Owl's work, as they (might) say.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It makes perfect sense why the groups do it. It's basically free advertising to the largest audience, and the algorithm will promote any cute animal, based on all the AI ones I get recommended. It helps get them money and attention, and sites like Flickr rarely give any backstory, so it's just my best option. I was going to delete my profile until I started doing this, so now it's over 100 animal groups on my list and like 20 friends, yet still at least half of the recs it gives me are politics stuff from both sides and AI spam. It's as bad as the ratio of ads to content back when people read magazines.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's wild, I wonder if that's something new or if Barn Owls routinely hang out in hidey-holes underground and no one's noticed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Owls are just opportunistic all around. If it's safe enough to get the job done, they'll live there. When you can't make your own nest, you get stuck with what the local market has available! 🤪

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These owls look like they're in an Elder Scrolls game and I don't know why.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am a very light gamer, and haven't played any Elder Scrolls, but they look like they have a ton of owl stuff!

Hawk Owl

GHO / Eagle Owl type

Grey Owl type

Guy with owl mask

And of course an owlbear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anon, I need your enthusiasm in many instances. Thank you for making my day brighter :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It isn't always easy. This year has really been testing my depression resisting skills.

Having a responsibility to you all here though always gives me something to look forward to. I feel the commentary has been down a little the last couple weeks, especially on the weekend, and it's been making it a bit tougher, but that's showbiz I guess.

But at this point for those that are here, even if they're quiet, I know this space means a lot to all of us, especially in bad times. Owls have no time for moping and complaining. They just carry on and push forward, They endure all sorts of dangers and foul weather. Owls can only look straight ahead, and for most, when it gets darkest is when it is their true opportunity to shine the brightest!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, now I want to cry

I think, maybe in light of the recent political turmoil, it had been hard for people to,"tune in" to a different channel. I have been that way and I'm trying to make an effort to stop and smell the owls and history stuff :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup, that is my thought. I'm sure people just want to be left be. So I just suck it up and keep doing my thing. You guys will get more chatty when you're ready.

I've been enjoying the history stuff also. Last week's Behind the Bastards on Louis XIV really highlighted nothing going on now is new. We've been through it multitudes of times, and it may get ugly for a while, but we reach our breaking point eventually and make things better again for a while until we inevitably take it for granted again and lose it.

This guy seemed especially needy in the attention department. My favorite part was it was some top honor to be given the opportunity to help the king/queen put on their shirts in the morning, but it someone outranking you came in the room, you had to relinquish your dressing privilege, and there were times they were just standing there getting all frozen because someone kept interrupting the dress up time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m sure people just want to be left be.

For me, it's mostly just life happening. Getting sick, working a lot, both at the same time. Plus I tend to sort by subscribed > new, and sometimes I miss stuff. Especially lately cause there are a lot more posts. I've been trying to come directly here to see what new stuff you've posted.

And sometimes I just fall down a rabbit hole. Lately, music theory. But I know what it's like to put effort into something and not get feedback, and it's just nice here, so I try to comment more than I would other places.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I just saw I had missed this comment.

I have been feeling not so well all year myself. I appreciate when people comment here. It's typically more pleasant that a lot of other Lemmy topics lately, and it keeps me motivated to post.

I'm learning music theory as well. I started taking piano lessons a little over a year ago and get a weekly assignment on that. It's secondary dominants this week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funny, I was just learning about dominants. I think I get the idea of secondary dominants, but the technical language kind of makes my head spin.

I used to think I didn't have a musical bone in me, but it turns out I do. It pretty much got started because a friend showed me his keyboard that felt almost exactly like a real piano. And let me fiddle with his electric guitar. It just sounded so cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I started years ago trying to teach myself guitar, but the layout of piano works better with my brain. It's nicer to see things in a linear fashion. I like working with the they're at the keyboard when I can to help translate the words to tones and feeling the associated hand positions.

I messed up, I have discussed secondary dominants with my teacher a few times for my practice pieces, but forming dominant sevenths was actually the lesson.

The secondary dominants are when you use the dominant of another note in your scale. If you were in the key of C, C (I) is the tonic and G (V) is the dominant. If you used a secondary dominant of that G, that is a D, making it the fifth of the original fifth, so it is notated V/V. Since that D chord will have an F# in it, it spices up your music by introducing borrowed notes, as the F# isn't in the original key of C. It can also be used as a bridge to actually changing keys by gradually introducing notes of the new key so it isn't jarring instead of just adding some surprise notes to one part of the song.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ohhhh. That makes sense and answered one of my other questions too (how do you change keys). There's probably a lot more to learn about that too, but for now I'm just happy that that clicked. Sometimes you just need the right explanation:)

I was going to write more, but I've been up way too long and I gotta go conk out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The finding the way to make things click is always the hardest part, but also the most reqarding!

There are a number of ways to change keys. You can use a transitional chord that is in your current key and the one you want to change to, you can keep the same root note, but change modes, you can walk notes up or down to get to a new note in your target scale, or work a chord from the new key into the chord progression you're in. There's other ways, but these are all ones I've come across.

In the song I'm working on now, it changes keys a few times. The song is pretty much all arpeggio runs, but when it is getting ready to change keys, it will sharpen or flatten one or 2 notes in the current chord to ease into the new key. It's easy to hear, but there's no jarring because it's not jumping to something completely random, they're keys that just have one or 2 different notes, and they are brought in with a plan to slide from one to another. If you're just listening and not reading the music, it happens before you even notice it happened, you're just all "ooo where did these new notes come from?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What song are you working on? I'd be curious to look for the sheet music on Musescore and try to look for the things you mentioned. It's one thing to read about it, and another to sit down and try to read/play through it yourself. And then it's usually easier to hear in other songs too.

Have you learned about this just from piano lessons, or are there other places (online or otherwise) that you go to learn or get inspiration?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Solfeggio in Cm: CPE Bach

My theory has pretty much come from lessons. In the past, is just try to learn something interesting and it never made much sense because I wasn't learning it in any practical order.

This is the theory book series we're using. I just do one lesson a week and my teacher points out anything I missed. We don't really drill it, we just talk about stuff when it comes up in songs.

We had a tiny book of all the major and minor scales and cadences, and now I've got another book where we're doing modes.

I'll look for videos if I'm confused or curious of something outside of lessons, but anymore I find it's hard to find an answer to my specific question and I have to sit through a bunch to maybe find an answer when I could just ask my teacher and get my exact answer in 5 minutes, and it's explained to me but someone that knows my skill level so I don't get beginner answers or expert answers. I didn't know if I've found any good intermediate YouTube channels. They're all either for beginners or people that have been taking theory for years.

Actually, I havent used his videos in a while, but if you're self teaching they may help.

letsplaypianomethods

He's gruff and a little off-putting at first, but he became endearing and funny after a while once I got used to him. He goes through so many course books. The videos start with a brief analysis of the songs, he goes over tricky parts, and then he teaches you slowly how to play it. Great audio and great view of his hands, and he counts out trickier timing. Really awesome, and I am watching one now and I forgot just how good these are.

If you have a course book like one of the Alfred or Faber series it's perfect, or you can use it to find a book you'd like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's an interesting piece, and what a tempo. I had forgotten that Bach (CPE anyway, I forget about JS and the others) wrote those really short piano pieces. Seems like they would take quite a bit of skill to play.

I like the style of the channel you linked. Direct, no fluff, lots of useful info. The kind of thing it's getting harder and harder to find, unless you already know about it. I watched one of his videos on Für Elise. That's one of the first songs I remember hearing on the piano, and the first one I tried to play.

I originally just wanted a cheap-ish keyboard so I could learn the pitches for singing. That's really what I'd love to learn. But the piano is starting to win me over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Piano just seems so useful for anything musically related. You can use it to study theory, you can work out parts for any instrument, it fits into maybe genres of music, and it's pretty fun and versatile on its own too.

I am not playing that piece at the correct tempo! I've been playing about 2 years and I'm happy I'm playing at just a steady rhythm. 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah these are the owls that look a bit fake and plastic to me because of that too white head. Like awesome alien species.

Also when you're a poor owl trying to get by you take what roommates you need. We're rooting for you owls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it better or worse when they're more uniformly white?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is better actually. Full definition white owl missile sighted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't know they came that white. That's really pretty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a little weak on differentiating the Tyto owls, but they really run a wide range of colors.

This is an artistic interpretation, but it covers a wide range of what they can look like.

DeviantArt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting! The dark ones are pretty too. Dark critters don't always get enough love.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I find the Sooty to be especially magical. It's like staring into the night sky itself.

That Red Owl I'm less familiar with, but that one is quite handsome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They're both pretty. Those big dark eyes. Speaking of night sky, I miss being able to see the Milky Way at night.