#HummingBird

Hi stinkies here’s a hummingbird I painted

~ ✨🌸 ~ 🍃 ~ 🌸✨~

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🐦“Large-tailed-kiss-flower”

🇧🇷Beija-flor-de-cauda-larga

🇬🇧Broad-tailed hummingbird

📖(Selasphorus platycercus)

You are looking at a fellow from the mountains there. This “kiss-flower” is essential to the pollination of some highland hummingbird-flowered species, such as the Rocky Mountain Iris (Iris missouriensis). Without its kiss, the flowers wouldn’t pollinate and thrive and their kissers wouldn’t get any nectar, of course. Codependency and reliability in nature is actually really cute. They are not only nectarivorous, though, they can also feed on some small insects. Measuring 10 cm of pure awesomeness and weighing about 3.5g, they are considered to be a medium hummingbird (can you imagine the little ones??). They are a sexually dimorphic species and the females are paler and slightly larger than the males (girl power yay!). Males defend their territory using the whistle of their wings and to impress the ladies, they do aerial backflips and dope loops in the sky. As all hummingbirds, they have iridescent feathers, which means that they reflect the light and can appear to change colors according to the angle. That’s why you can spot some photos where they seem to have black throats. They don’t. It’s pink. Trust me. As a partially migratory hummingbird, their breeding occurs in the western part of the USA and they’re residents in Mexico and Guatemala. Some populations don’t even migrate. And insane: they can actually stop their kidneys from functioning at night to prevent dehydration!

I love hummingbirds and it’s so impressive how fast they fly and how fast their heartbeat is!

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347283802243

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-tailed_hummingbird

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.12614

https://avianconservationpartners-nm.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Broad-tailed-Hummingbird.pdf

https://www.gardenia.net/guide/30-fun-facts-about-hummingbirds

Where are black holes? In the structure of the universe or in the minds of astronomers:)

Not quite. That joke lands, but only up to a point.

A Kantian would say astronomers do not claim access to the universe “as it is in itself.” They claim something narrower and much stronger, within the domain of possible experience, using mathematics, instruments, and publicly testable inference, the best explanation for certain observed phenomena is that there are black holes.

So black holes are not “only in their minds” in the cheap sense, as though astronomers just sat around in cardigans inventing cosmic holes in the universe’s sweater. What is in the mind, for Kant, is the form under which objects can be known, and they are space, time, causality, magnitude, lawful connection. But the content still requires something given through experience. You do not derive a black hole by pure introspection. You infer it from observations such as stellar motion, gravitational lensing, X-ray emissions from accretion disks, gravitational waves from mergers, and images of matter orbiting an extremely compact object. Those are empirical constraints, not decorative hallucinations.

So the proper Kantian correction is that astronomers do not know black holes as things-in-themselves. They know black holes as theoretical objects within phenomenal reality, constructed through mathematics and confirmed by observation. That is a very different claim.

Kant is not saying science studies fantasies. He is saying science studies appearances under lawful conditions. And that is enough for real knowledge, as long as one does not smuggle in metaphysical vanity and pretend to possess a divine camera outside cognition.

Science is not private. A scientist’s belief matters very little. What matters is whether different observers, using shared methods, can generate converging results. Black holes are not accepted because astronomers enjoy dramatic vocabulary. They are accepted because a large range of otherwise disconnected observations are coherently explained by general relativity plus compact-mass models, and rival explanations perform worse.

So the structure is that the framework of knowability is contributed by the mind. The specific empirical claim about black holes is constrained by observation. Therefore black holes are neither raw reality-in-itself nor arbitrary mental fiction. They are scientifically posited objects within the structured field of experience.

Purple flash in the sunshine by Marjorie Morrison
Via Flickr:
Costa’s hummingbird Tucson, Arizona Thank you for looking at my images. I certainly appreciate it.

In mid February I watched as a momma hummingbird sat in her nest. She’d fly off briefly & come back spending her day resting. A week into her sitting, I got curious about how many eggs were in her nest. Hummingbirds generally lay two eggs.

In my first photo I took there were no eggs. I didn’t realize that there were two Bebe’s in the nest, it just looks like the bottom of the nest. But after another week when Momma stopped sitting all day, I went out again & to my surprise there they were cuddled next to each other tucked in their nest fast asleep.

Four weeks later & these Bebe’s are about to take flight for the first time & leave the nest!

316K views · 8K reactions | The beauty of recycling. Handcrafting a hummingbird from simple paper pages. #diy #handmade #art #bird #craft

made a hummingbird, pretty bored right now, plus I got a tornado warning a while ago today so that sucks but we move on. stay safe people :]

Please does anyone have that tweet or something with a picture of a hummingbird in someone’s hand, drinking out of a bottle cap with the caption “my jalapeño is so thirsty”?????