wingy scruffhead @wingy
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⟣ ⛩ 日本旅行の記録 ⛩ ⟢
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5.27.2026 >> still in the air; read part of ‘The Tao of Pooh’.
🛬 Narita airport. first vending machine bev: drinkable corn pottage in a tin bottle— was super hungry, it tasted amazing.
🚃&🚃 to Zushi, counted as many karasu (crows) as we could see.
>> attempted to navigate with memory alone to aunt’s apartment; got a bit lost nearby but she happened to be walking by right as we were making our third wrong turn :)
⟣⟣time travel through sky⟢⟢
5.26.2026 >> ride from kind brother to YVR; 🛫; moomin game & playdate on flight; ate Japanese baby food to tide over hunger; first attempt at hand-drawn pixel art on paper.
5.25.2026 >> getting ready to head to Vancouver, tomorrow morn flight to Japan!
>> Turkish uber driver shared his home-roasted hazelnuts with us, they were delicious; maybe even worth missing the bus for!
>> incredible, epic live folk/electronic music performance for a proper cap-off of @leaflitter‘s bird day.
5.21.2026 >> three-week journey around Japan with @leaflitter starting in five days ~ planning to log intermittently here on the spesh fish! ⏖⏖𓆜⏖𓆝⏖𓆞⏖⏖
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shinto tori
Schedule as of May 25, 2026:
May 27-28 Tokyo/Zushi/Kanagawa
May 29 Tokoname (Aichi)
May 30 Mie (Tsubaki Kaikan)
May 31–June 1 Ise
June 2 Shikoku Island
June 3 Marugame (Kagawa)
June 4 Kyoto
June 5-6 Tenryukyo (Nagano)
June 7-8 Tatsuno (Nagano)
June 9-10 Togakushi (Nagano)
June 11 Enoshima (Kanagawa)
June 12-16 Zushi (Kanagawa)
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▒ i'm wingy scruffhead. ▒
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░ some things i often am: ░
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▒ ⟿ bird-musician ♫ ▒
░ ⤑ habitual doodler ✎ ░
▒ ⤳ creative prob-solver ✂︎ ▒
░ ↝ lichen-looker ⚘ ░
░ ↣ food-&-tea savourer ☕︎ ░
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#feac84 from jeffy: "in response to your request for bird stories - the other day I saw two crows standing in a gravel lot, and one looked like it was pulling a worm out of the ground. But on a closer look, its beak wasn't touching the gravel; it was more like an exaggerated pantomime of the motion. Beak opens, head lowers, beak closes, head lifts, repeat. The other crow was standing a foot to the right, watching. I wondered if maybe it was a parent teaching a new skill. That's their secret to know :)"
#014169 from jakewelch: "I have an American Robin mother in the tree outside my window who's built her nest. We're anxiously awaiting for her little blue eggs to appear.
A month or so ago, we saw a Red Tailed Hawk in Prospect Park standing on the ground in some brush. We watched for a while and realized it had something under it's talons. Suddenly it took flight with a squirrel hanging below. It was quite the sight!"
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5.11.2026 oh my goodness, @jeffy i just noticed your crow observation-- what a neat and ౾~mysterious~౾ thing to behold! i've watched a field of crows after the rain pulling up worms, but not to eat-- they were seemingly just playing a game! they'd pull a worm up, then jump straight upwards as if startled, and then pick up the worm, fling it aside, search for the next one, and repeat.
𓄿 𓅀 𓄿
i have endless questions for the crows... most recently i've been watching them scraping up what i thought were chestnut blossoms (but maybe it's those flat tree-seeds that have been everywhere lately--which tree are they from?), anyway they're scraping them off of the road, side-beak style, with a seemingly full crop, ready to feed babies. strange that they seem to prefer eating the car-smooshed ones instead of fresh, but now that i think about it, maybe it's 'cause it's easier to access the seed after being run over...? i watched one doing this for 5 mins yesterday, being side-eyed by crow but continued about its mysterious business. crows, pls explain.
5.10.2026 @jakewelch thanks for the great bird observations! good catch, red-tail! any eggs yet in the robin's nest?
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𓅰 𓅬 𓅭 𓅮 𓅷 𓅯 𓅭 𓅬 𓅰
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𓆜 𓆝 𓆞 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝 𓆞 𓆟 𓆜 𓆝
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4.5.2026 #92917a
birds i saw 𖥶 and/or heard ♪ today:
#fca060 ♪𖥶 american robin
#916152 ♪𖥶 bewick’s wren
#b54e3c ♪𖥶 house finch
#3d211f ♪𖥶 juvenile towhee
#d3b224 ♪𖥶 golden-crowned kinglet
#d7207d ♪𖥶 anna’s hummingbird
#aa9fa2 ♪𖥶 bushtit
#120f22 ♪𖥶 american crow
#eadbd3 ♪𖥶 glaucous winged gull
#181716 ♪ common raven
#806151 ♪ dark-eyed junco
#2c2c2d ♪ european starling
#4e9cbe ♪ peacock
#d99c4e ♪ rufous hummingbird
#bd9a33 ♪ golden-crowned sparrow
★ today’s highlight ★
bushtits! i watched a pair building their soft, sock-like nest only about 15 paces from our front door!! eeee my heart melted with love for them ♥︎ 🧦🐦 ♥︎
i hope they have many wee ones that learn to eat and grow and chirp in their cozy, mossy sock. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
⩻ question of the day ⩼
i wonder if bushtit bbs just poop in their nest, or do they make fecal sacs like cavity nesters, since they have an enclosed nest? hmm! i must learn more...*
*answer: indeed, bushtit nestlings are in the fecal-sac crew! so tidy. if only human babies could evolve to have such an ingenious system..!
other creatures:
black-tailed deer
european wall lizard
house fly
bee-fly (bombilius major!)
american sand-wasp?
leggy
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☞ ⤞why am i here?⤝ ☜
while inspecting a pile of @leaflitter, a little leggy-fish-bird skittered out and invited me to join their special fish party. how could i refuse?
here are a couple of my special new leggy fish-like friends (and others):
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⫸⊂{⊂{⦿≺ -{hi!} ⫸{(⦿3 >●}}<
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⫸⊂{⊂{⊂{⦿≺ -{i spesh?} ৲৲ °
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𓆉 notable update logs 𓆉
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2.22.2026 >> became a special fish!
3.08.2026 >> added s'more ascii spesh fish
3.10.2026 >> added some "lists" for the first time
3.24.2026 >> playing around with these ░▒▓ things
3.25.2026 >> testing new mailbox-zone
4.05.2026 >> creating a journal-zone
5.01.2026 >> prompt: anyone have a good bird story they recently experienced or heard?
5.21.2026 >> created Japan trip log zone
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important
- birds
- piano-ing
- dancing
- delicious tea
- banana slugs
- spiders
- lichens
- companions
- stories
- fun crafts
- stretching
- sleep
morning routine
- peel self out of bed somehow, preferably before eight
- drink a mug of warm-ish water
- listen to birds outside while boiling water
- add boiled water to tea
- shuffle & draw cards from Yokai Oracle Deck; drink tea while deciphering
- stretching routine while pondering cards for the day
- prayers to Kamidana
- granola + mylk + banana + pb + supplements/meds
- check in with partner about day
- chronic pain/fatigue/anxiety = try not to go back to bed
- go for a nature walk or bike to work
squigglies i want to use eventually:
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- ➰
- ᢆ
- ፨
- ൠ
- ጵ
- ౾
- ౽
- 𖥶
good glyphs to use
- bird 𓄿 𓅀 𓅂 𓅃 𓅅 𓅇 𓅊 𓅐 𓅒 𓅓 𓅔 𓅖 𓅘 𓅙 𓅚 𓅛 𓅜 𓅞 𓅟 𓅠 𓅡 𓅢 𓅣 𓅥 𓅦 𓅧 𓅨 𓅩 𓅪 𓅫 𓅬 𓅭 𓅮 𓅯 𓅰 𓅱 𓅳 𓅴 𓅷 𓅸 𓅹 𓅺 𓅻 𓅿 𓆀 𓆁 𓆂 𓆃 𓆆 𓆇
- reptilian 𓆈 𓆊 𓆌 𓆓 𓆕 𓆗 𓆙 𓆚
- spesh fish 𓆡 𓆛 𓆜 𓆝 𓆞 𓆟 𓆢
- mammalian 𓄅 𓄁 𓃰 𓃟 𓃡 𓃗
- spesh bugz 𓆣 𓆤 𓆦 𓆧 𓆨
- amphibian 𓆉 𓆏 𓆐
- slug 𓆑 𓆑 𓆑
- leggy 𓂙 𓂘 𓏎 𓌬 𓎁 𓆫 𓋏
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Last updated on Wednesday, May 27, 2026