OMFG.
Very curious doggo
Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.
TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD
Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and
this is so fucking cute
Who wants to see my rabbit launch himself at my face this morning
Slight sound warning i got surprised
Is this rabbit playing? Yes :)
childhood daydream: getting adopted by a nice couple who takes me away from everything
adult daydream: getting adopted by a nice couple who takes me away from everything (they do sex stuff to me also)
Everything in Canberra has the title "National" and the National Arboretum is no exception, here's some birds I saw there :)
1-4: Superb Fairywren
5-9: Choughs
10-13: Willie-Wagtail (They were seriously fucking with me, they kept hiding behind that wall)
14-16: I think a Yellow Rumped Thornbill
17-19: White Browed Scrubwren (and some wagtails)
20-21: Australian Blue Banded Bee :)
22-23: Crimson Rosella
24: Some kinda spider idk. My scary goth friend didn't know so I've asked on inaturalist
Comet 6AC4721 (not yet officially designated and named) is a Kreutz sungrazer comet discovered last week. Currently magnitude 18, it is the first Kreutz sungrazer discovered from ground observatories since the ill-fated C/2024 S1 ATLAS just over a year ago. Interestingly, this is the furthest out that we have ever observed a Kreutz sungrazer; its perihelion date is 4th April 2026, 2.5 months away. No other Kreutz sungrazer has been observed for longer than a month before its perihelion. That means we don't yet know how it'll behave towards perihelion. It may not brighten significantly, and then unspectacularly burn up in the Sun's corona, like C/2024 S1 ATLAS. Or it may survive perihelion and then violently fragment to form a large, naked-eye visible tail, like C/2011 W3 Lovejoy. One thing we do know from precovery observations is that it's not currently in outburst, unlike C/2024 S1 ATLAS was at its discovery (which led to overestimated total magnitude calculations). This suggests that it may be larger and/or more stable than C/2024 S1 ATLAS, and thus have better odds of making it to perihelion.
Ultimately this comet is exciting because we don't know how to predict its future, so there's a lot of potential for either greatness or great disappointment. An interesting comet to keep an eye on for the coming months
Wow even more birds :)
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (it was using its mouth to help it move around in the tree)
Some Black Swans (a few were young)
Noisy Miners (Incl baby)
Some goth Silver Gulls (I think it means they're younger)
One million billion Eurasian Coots
Pacific Black Duck
Dusky Moorhen and baby
Pukeko!!!!!!!
Australian White Ibises
Crested Pigeons
Australian Magpie
Little Corellas
Galahs
I think a Red Rumped Parrot
Wood Ducks
What I think were Welcome Swallows living in a stormwater grate thing
Magpie Lark
Willie Wagtail
I should work out a better way to have this list at the end, ideally captioning the images individually, but idk how to do that so oh well.