It’s going to be a tough owl to beat!

I always hope for a shake up and to have you guys subvert my expectations, but I can find no fault with the WFS or those who vote for it!

While we aren’t immune to negativity here, it is easier for us to stay positive here, with so many beautiful pictures of things you haven’t seen a million times and touching stories of owl medical care and the people doing it. There are more than 250 owls in the world, and they all have so many wonderful and unique things to them.

I’m glad you’re all able to come here to smile and learn more about the semi-secret world of owls. I never thought I would be sharing all this, or that so many of you would listen to it, but I’ glad you all do, and I’m happy to get people interested in new things, and to hopefully encourage them to support their local wild animal rescues.

Hopefully you hang around even after the tournament. It’s not quite as intense, but we still explore new and exciting things every day!

Morepork

Milky Eagle Owl

Long Eared Owl

White Faced Scops

I didn’t even really comment on Reddit as I felt nobody would ever even see what I said.

Here feels more inspiring because in a focused forum like we both have, you’ll end up with a group of the same folks coming by regularly and develop a flow with the people replying to you and participating.

I think it gives the small communities a nice group dynamic, and every community doesn’t feel the same because it’s a million users all trying to grab attention. You can have real talk.

Keep at it and you’ll find your natural flow and it gets easier! Best of luck!

This is the debate that is getting many owls killed.

I can give you more details if you want, but let’s look at this analogy:

You have a town protected from a raging river by a dam. If people don’t maintain the dam even though they see it starting to crack, and the river destroys the town, is that the fault of the river or the people?

The Barred Owls were kept away from the West and the Spotted Owls by natural barriers. Humans destroyed the Spotted Owl habitat knowingly, and turned it into territory habitable by a much more aggressive and adaptable species. If not for purposeful human action, the Barred Owls would be limited to their modern territorial limits, away from the very delicate species by over a thousand miles.

Does that make the Barred invasive, or did people doom the Spotted Owl and blame another owl to avoid dealing with the fallout of their actions?

Lol this was good 😁

You got it!

Glad you like it!

You’re in with plenty of time.

I’m feeling a bit burnt out lately. I’m having fun running the Owl of the Year tournament again, but I’m a little tired of making regular posts at the moment.

A lot of stressful things are going on in my personal life, so I don’t know if that’s it, or if I just need a break from the specific content, or what. Maybe I’m just complaining to burn off some anxiety.

But out of my frustration and reading the post from the person in the journaling community, it got me thinking about something like a Post Exchange Program.

Either in Fedigrow or a separate comm, one person could submit a request let’s say.

Community: Superbowl@lemmy.world
Posts Requested: 1
Subject: Any

One of you guys with your own community could reply with a trade.

Bun Alert System
Subject: Funny

And you could accept or pass on a post swap.

I thought it could get a fresh set of ideas into some of the communities, and if there was a kind of content I wanted but didn’t have the time or knowledge, maybe someone seeing a want ad would be motivated to post.

I wouldn’t mind learning about some other topics that I could research occasionally. Even if it’s just find a pic you think is cool or funny, you would bring in what someone other than just yourself thinks is good all the time.

This is just like 15 minutes of thinking about it, but if anyone feels this is worth pursuing, maybe we can refine something.

It may even just be easier if some of us could partner up with other people we like their work or a subject we’re interested in. Even if they aren’t people that frequent Fedigrow, if a few of us or says let’s pick one community a week and as a group we each toss a post or two to that community during the week.

I think a lot of us are doing the best a single person can do in there own and maybe some organized collabs could take some of these things to the next level.

Thoughts?

I voted, and not just for myself! 😅

If nobody had participated in a year, nobody has had more interest into making it something good than you. I’m sure you can only make it better

After Superbowl got idle for probably like 2 weeks, I just started posting because I knew if everyone stopped it would fizzle and die. 99‰ of posts, the banner, icon, and the Owl of the Year tournament are done solely by me.

I worry people will get bored or something because everything is just one person’s likes and opinions, but anyone who talks to me basically says they come there because they enjoy my passion just as much, if not more than the actual content.

Just do what you like. If you get enough regulars where they say, hey, can we do this or that, worry about it then. For now, just show the group is alive and grow it organically. Keep the commenters engaged, and you’re golden.

I don’t think I knew its name, but I recalled seeing a few gifs of it doing its transformation.

Not sure if it was just cuz the crowd was still getting warmed up then vs now, but Snowy has more votes than WFS got in its opener, so he better watch his feathered butt or Snowy might sneak past!

I overestimated how hard this decision would be for most of you! 😅

It’s still a bit early for me to feel out if there’s been a change in what you guys like since last year, but some things like living that tiny Saw Whet probably will stay the same forever. It’s just so cute and feisty!

It’s doing a bit better than i had expected, which I like to see. Even though most of the uncommon owls don’t get very far, it’s still very fun for me to see them get more recognition, and a few will go on to become some of your new favorites. Last year many of us didn’t know White Faced Scops, Buffy Fish Owl, or the Flammulated Owl, but now a lot of you do. Whoever I can get you to remember is a success to me.

I read the interview as a 380 page paper on a subject I don’t really understand seemed a bit ambitious. I linked it, as I didnt know who did the report, and I wanted to hear her summary in her own words.

The comments here are full of people defending one side or the other, but no one seems to be providing any sources. This seems to be a difficult subject to approach if one isn’t seeking to affirm an existing stance. Both sides just seem to say “show me the proof” back and forth because neither will acknowledge the other.

You seem to be at least leaning in favor of the report. If you have any noob appropriate links to supporting info, I’d look at them.

Like some weird owl-beetle!

I just have to ensure all the drooling is due to purely aesthetic reasons! I gotta watch out for these hooties’ best interests and all… 😜