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Hen o’ the Moors (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  September 28, 20213:27 pm| 72 Comments

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We saw this gorgeous Common Gallinule yesterday, otherwise known as a “Moor Hen,” although approximately half are not hens, and we are many miles from a proper moor:

Hen o' the Moors (Open Thread)

Moor Hens do not excel at flying; I’ve only seen them catch air for short distances. But they can run fast on the surface of the water (despite lacking webbed toes!) to escape predators and/or sexual harassment.

They are super-vocal birds. Their chicks have an odd tonsure-like bare head when very young. I have no idea why; maybe that’s where the face-shield eventually grows? Anyhoo, Moor Hens, everyone!

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    lowtechcyclist

    September 28, 2021 at 3:30 pm

    Pelosi opens up the possibility of the trillion-dollar platinum coin – for next time

    Maybe they just can’t mint one quickly enough for this round?

  2. 2.

    frosty

    September 28, 2021 at 3:34 pm

    Cool birds! I really liked the Purple Gallinules I saw too.

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    September 28, 2021 at 3:36 pm

    Sorry Betty.

    It says “Moops” right on the card.

  4. 4.

    SpaceUnit

    September 28, 2021 at 3:36 pm

    Open thread? Okay, this is really really off-topic but I recently decided that I don’t much care for lava. I was just watching some news clip about the volcano in La Palma when it occurred to me that I have no use for lava whatsoever. Sure, lava gave us Hawaii, and then later on Hawaii gave us surf boards and Obama and some pretty good television theme songs back in the 1970’s, but that’s taking a pretty long view of things. I’m taking the shorter view and I say lava can go f*ck itself.

    If you get up in the morning and turn on the local news to see if it’s going to rain or something but instead they’re talking about “an unstoppable river of lava” you can pretty much bet that your day is going all to shit. If it snows you can go out and play in it. You can build and snowman or a fort, throw snowballs or make a snow angel. But lava? Go out to play in the lava and you won’t last thirty seconds.

    Anyhow, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Go ahead and talk amongst yourselves.

  5. 5.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2021 at 3:36 pm

    Can’t tell you how many Hen of the Woods we’ve harvested in the last week or two. I know, animal/vegetable.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    September 28, 2021 at 3:41 pm

    Moar Moor Hens.  Yea, Betty.

    Appealing bird.

  7. 7.

    Frank Wilhoit

    September 28, 2021 at 3:46 pm

    @frosty: There was a wonderful photo in an old (early 1970s?) NatGeo of one of their photographers feeding a wild-but-tame purple gallinule, who is sitting on his camera.

  8. 8.

    Kelly

    September 28, 2021 at 3:47 pm

    Yesterday the Oregon Legislature approved a reapportionment map that will most likely result in changing the Oregon Congressional delegation from the current 4D/1R to a 5D/1R. 4 seats will be solid D, 1 solid R. The swing district will be Kurt Schrader’s 5th which will trade Salem and Newport for recently blue Bend and a bigger slice of the blue Portland metro area. Blue Dog/Problem Solver Schrader is annoying but will probably hold the seat.

  9. 9.

    Denali

    September 28, 2021 at 3:49 pm

    We saw them here in western New York this summer.

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2021 at 3:49 pm

    @SpaceUnit:

    Imagining watching the local news (from a safe distance) and seeing lumps of the stuff plopping into your swimming pool .

    Having hiked on the stuff (cold only) I find it slow-going. With cinders you go only half a step for every step taken and with the solid stuff every step can be an ankle-breaker and will chew you boot up right quick.

  11. 11.

    germy

    September 28, 2021 at 3:52 pm

    My idea of hell is a high-decibel Broadway musical with deafening sound, hyperventilating performances, “high production values” & interminable intermissions. https://t.co/JVkfurJtZb

    — Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) September 28, 2021

    Make it a jukebox musical for one more level of torture.

    — Bay Brat (@Bayl3rat) September 28, 2021

  12. 12.

    Baud

    September 28, 2021 at 3:53 pm

    The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds

  13. 13.

    germy

    September 28, 2021 at 3:55 pm

    Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) tells me he could envision tuition-free community college being means tested

    — Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) September 27, 2021

    lol this is awesome, this is the furthest they can think.

    No one even willing to try a "I think it's time we sent our smartest children to our universities instead of our richest" style populism, it's just "We will give you 50% off being a dental tech if your parents made <20k" https://t.co/zJTWsGlnu1

    — boo-grimm (@ExileGrimm) September 28, 2021

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    SpaceUnit

    September 28, 2021 at 3:56 pm

    @trollhattan: Watching that stuff always freaks me out.  Tsunamis too.  I’ve watched dozens of videos on YouTube from the 2011 tsunami in Japan, and they’re some of most terrifying spectacles you’ll ever want to see.  Nature can be scary.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2021 at 3:57 pm

    Dismantle DHS. Do it yesterday.

    September 28, 2021 at 3:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    While a mob stormed the Capitol on January, pushing through barricades set up outside the building, the Department of Homeland Security sent an email to the Pentagon, reporting “no major incidents of illegal activity at this time,” Politico reports.

    Created by Bush-Cheney, turned into a personal Gestapo by Trump. What more are we waiting for?

  16. 16.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2021 at 4:00 pm

    @Baud:

    One of those times you wish really, really hard the rocket does not blow itself up on launch. Can I assume Musk isn’t involved?

  17. 17.

    Another Scott

    September 28, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    @lowtechcyclist: They’re cranking out platinum coins right now – making one isn’t the issue, I don’t think. USMint.gov:

    The United States Mint pays homage to the freedoms set forth in the First Amendment with the United States Constitution Platinum Proof Coin Program. This program features a total of five coins, each struck in magnificent 99.95 percent platinum and bearing the “W” mark of the U.S. Mint at West Point. The five-year series begins in 2021 with freedom of religion, symbolized by a seedling. It will continue through 2025, with each year’s coin designs highlighting a different First Amendment freedom. While each coin features a unique obverse design to symbolize each freedom, the designs are connected, weaving a meaningful story through shared imagery. The series uses the lifecycle of the oak tree from seedling to a mighty oak as a metaphor for our country’s growth as a Nation that values freedom.

    They just have to change the “$100” to “$100E12” and the debt limit goes away for a few decades.

    (sigh)

    But it probably wouldn’t work because it clearly wasn’t Congress’s intent in letting the Mint make platinum coins in “any” face value to get around the debt limit.

    If it actually happens, and I don’t expect it to, then they’ll find other ways to suspend it or get around it than the coin.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  18. 18.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    I’ll just leave these here:

  19. 19.

    frosty

    September 28, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    Re: debt limit. I liked the suggestion this morning that Congress/Biden should cite the 14th amendment, say the Constitution ties their hands and just keep paying the bills. So they get taken to court? Is someone going to argue that the Constitution is unconstitutional?

    (Narrator: why yes, yes they will)

  20. 20.

    raven

    September 28, 2021 at 4:11 pm

    No love for Commander Cody today. Maybe if all you pencil neck geeks knew he was more than a hard rocking daddy you’d like him! Here he is doin Willin

     

    Frayne was also an artist. He received a bachelor’s in design from the University of Michigan in 1966 and a master’s in Sculpture and Painting from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan in 1968. He taught at University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and has had his art exhibited at numerous shows.[15] He was a student of cinematography, and has a video (Two Triple Cheese Side Order of Fries) in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent video archive. He has assembled many old movies to go with the band’s music as shown on his YouTube channel. Some of his paintings are oversized, most are medium-sized acrylics and present pop art images from media sources and historic photos.[16] His book, Art Music and Lifewas released by Qualibre Publications in 2009 and is a mix of his best work and anecdotal comments and related stories. He still did portraits of famous automobiles for the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he resided

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    September 28, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:   Our 1928 movie palace in Richmond VA is showing American Werewolf in October.  Plus The Exorcist, They Live,  and a lot of great scarefare. https://byrdtheatre.org/showtimes/

    Gonna go see Werewolf.

    For anyone in central Virginia:  Sunday, October 24:  fundraiser — all proceeds benefit the 1928 organ.  Which will accompany silent movies Phantom of the Opera (1927; Lon Chaney) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920).  Great cause; great old movies.

  22. 22.

    raven

    September 28, 2021 at 4:13 pm

    @Elizabelle: I smoked a bomber and went to see it and, when the razor got pulled out, I left. Everyone said I should have stayed.

  23. 23.

    Old School

    September 28, 2021 at 4:16 pm

    @raven: 

    Saw Commander Cody in concert 15 or so years ago. It was a good evening.

  24. 24.

    Ken

    September 28, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I know, animal/vegetable.

    Biology pendants* softly murmur “fungal”.

    * Official internet spelling and pet peeve.

  25. 25.

    MattF

    September 28, 2021 at 4:30 pm

    It’s one of those days when the NYT restaurant critic (Pete Wells) does a number on an unfortunate chef. A sample:

    The pot is wheeled out to your table, where a server smashes the clay with a ball-peen hammer. The beet is cleaned of pottery shards and transferred to a plate with a red-wine and beet-juice reduction that is oddly pungent in a way that may remind you of Worcestershire sauce.

    They used to do a similar beet act at Agern, a New Nordic restaurant in Grand Central Terminal, roasting it inside a crust of salt and vegetable ash. That beet tasted like a beet, but more so. The one at Eleven Madison Park tastes like Lemon Pledge and smells like a burning joint.

  26. 26.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2021 at 4:30 pm

    @raven: It’s a great movie. Watch it on wherever it is streaming.

  27. 27.

    Comrade Colette

    September 28, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    @SpaceUnit: I think it’s Pele’s response to climate change.

    When my son was a toddler, we visited Volcanoes National Park in Hawai’i – walking on the steaming lava field (only the adults did this) was both amazing and terrifying. Afterward, my son tried, for reasons known only to 3-year-olds, to throw one of his sandals into the volcanic crater from an overlook. I was REALLY glad this happened after our walk and not before. Throwing shoes at Pele seems like an extremely unwise move. We made her an offering when we got home.

    Don’t mess with Pele. She gets mad, and when she gets mad, she gets even. Humans are really pissing her off right now.

  28. 28.

    Cameron

    September 28, 2021 at 4:37 pm

    @raven: Did not know he was an artist – as was Captain Beefheart.

  29. 29.

    raven

    September 28, 2021 at 4:38 pm

    @Old School: He died yesterday.

  30. 30.

    Bill in Section 147

    September 28, 2021 at 4:41 pm

    @raven:  Saw him in the late 70s. He opened for Elvin Bishop. A great show.

  31. 31.

    SpaceUnit

    September 28, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    @Comrade Colette:  Yeah.  I think it would be better for us all if Pele didn’t watch the news.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    September 28, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    @raven:  Oh.  Will be watching for that scene.  Know nothing about the movie.

    And RIP, Commander Cody.  You probably saw this obit from Variety.  His first band was The Fantastic Surfing Beavers.  Well, all right.

    I did not follow them, but I like swing music.  Will have to listen up.  Only know “Hot Rod Lincoln” (and that is a great song).

  33. 33.

    raven

    September 28, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    @Bill in Section 147: OOOO, that would have been awesome!

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    @SpaceUnit: Why do you hate igneous rock?! You rockist!

  35. 35.

    raven

    September 28, 2021 at 4:44 pm

    @Elizabelle: My fav

     
    Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites [1972] – Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen

  36. 36.

    Royston Vasey

    September 28, 2021 at 4:46 pm

    Here in New Zealand, these birds are known as Pukeko (aka the swamphen).
    Like most rails, pukeko are generally found in or near wetland habitats. Their long legs and feet are well adapted for wading through shallow waters with muddy bottoms. They feed mainly on roots, seeds, and shoots of grasses, which they typically hold with one foot, parrot-fashion, while stripping off the outer layers with their beak to get at the tender tissues within.

  37. 37.

    SpaceUnit

    September 28, 2021 at 4:49 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Punk, alt, classic, metal, post-punk, progressive?  All good.  Molten? Nope.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 4:51 pm

    @trollhattan: “The volcano is entering a fresh explosive phase”

  39. 39.

    Betty Cracker

    September 28, 2021 at 4:52 pm

    Now that creepy “Dog the Bounty Hunter” dude is running around Florida beaches looking for the boyfriend who killed the van life blogger. Good lord, the nuttiness never ends.

  40. 40.

    Comrade Colette

    September 28, 2021 at 4:55 pm

    @raven: Damn. He was awesome. He and the Lost Planet Airmen played at my tiny college back in the 70s and I saw him a handful of times over the years – always a fun show.

  41. 41.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2021 at 4:55 pm

    @Old School:

    The Armadillo World Headquarters live album has to be one of the better live records made. So much energy, tight band.

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 4:55 pm

    @trollhattan: Dismantle DHS into the Sun.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2021 at 4:57 pm

    @Cameron: ​
     Martin Mull, also, too, and of course Joni.

  44. 44.

    Elizabelle

    September 28, 2021 at 4:58 pm

    @raven:   Thank you.  Will give it a listen.

  45. 45.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 4:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: “Bye, girls”

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    silent movies Phantom of the Opera (1927; Lon Chaney) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). 

    Yumm-o!

  47. 47.

    Betty Cracker

    September 28, 2021 at 5:01 pm

    @Royston Vasey: They sound very much like our Moor Hens here! A lot of folks who’ve only seen them in passing while the birds are swimming on a pond or lake assume they have duck-like legs and feet, but as you noted, they have much longer legs and toes. Perfectly adapted for walking thru muck and on floating vegetation.

    We’ve had minor flooding on our river for the past several weeks. It hasn’t affected us, but lots of floating masses of vegetation have passed by, and I’ve seen birds, including Moor Hens, hop on and off them like they’re catching a bus!  :)

  48. 48.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 5:04 pm

    @SpaceUnit: What about sedimentary and metamorphic?

  49. 49.

    Miss Bianca

    September 28, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    @raven: There was a great book on the rock and roll biz – I think it may have been Star-Making Machinery – that used Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen as the poster boys for all that was fucked-up about the music industry at that time (as opposed to the modern-day fucked-up-ed-ness of the music industry). Always had a soft spot for “Hot Rod Lincoln” as a wee tad (not surprisingly, it was a big hit on the Detroit airwaves at the time).

  50. 50.

    prostratedragon

    September 28, 2021 at 5:07 pm

    @germy: Ethel Merman

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 28, 2021 at 5:08 pm

    @Betty Cracker: How does river flooding affect your neck of the swamp?

  52. 52.

    prostratedragon

    September 28, 2021 at 5:14 pm

    @raven:  It’s striking that so many people who are known for one art are also adept at one or more others.

  53. 53.

    SpaceUnit

    September 28, 2021 at 5:15 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:  Okay, they’re both pretty solid.

  54. 54.

    prostratedragon

    September 28, 2021 at 5:16 pm

    @Elizabelle:  Ooo, silents with live music, especially organ, are great.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 28, 2021 at 5:18 pm

    @MattF: Sometimes, the best newspaper writing is to be found in the sports section. Sometimes it’s in restaurant reviews. Thank you for this deliciously venomous little piece.

  56. 56.

    Betty Cracker

    September 28, 2021 at 5:22 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: There’s a dam about a mile upriver from us, and the water is over the top of it now. Most of the houses back here are either stilt houses like ours or on built-up foundations to avoid seasonal flooding, so no one is flooded out so far.

    The year there were four hurricanes in a row (2004), the house we live in now had water downstairs, but it’s not part of the house proper; it’s enclosed as a game room. The main house was undamaged then and should be okay if that happens again. But it would be a pain in the ass because we’d have to move stuff, and the road would be impassable (it’s a long dirt road that is shitty under the best circumstances).

    For us, the only real effect for minor flooding like this is that we have to be mindful of the clearance going under some of the bridges in a boat, and we have gators sunning on our dock. For real! When the water is high enough, they float right onto it and hang out. But some folks in lower lying areas downriver will get inundated if it gets much higher, and the roads will be even worse. So, we’re hoping there won’t be any hurricanes.

  57. 57.

    Jim Appleton

    September 28, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Makes me want to reprise an old gag:

    Maaooooooooooo, the WereCows of London …

  58. 58.

    oatler

    September 28, 2021 at 5:26 pm

    bonny moorhen

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaannSoh1TA

  59. 59.

    Elizabelle

    September 28, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    @prostratedragon:   Really look forward to it.  Have seen The Phantom before.  What a workout for the accompanying musician!

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    September 28, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    @Jim Appleton:   Drinkin’ pina coladas at …. well, where do the WereCows gather?  DQ?

  61. 61.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 28, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    @Elizabelle: I believe Trader Vic’s is no longer around.

  62. 62.

    SpaceUnit

    September 28, 2021 at 5:59 pm

    @Elizabelle:  At the moo-soleum.

    Fine.  I’m going.

  63. 63.

    zeecube

    September 28, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    More hens, please.  And ducks!

  64. 64.

    debbie

    September 28, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    Just took my nightly walk around the neighborhood and noticed the cicadas have died or disappeared or whatever they do at the end of summer. Good riddance, beasties!

  65. 65.

    smedley the uncertain

    September 28, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    @Ken: Just let them hang

  66. 66.

    debbie

    September 28, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Oh, no! ?

    I used to measure my sobriety by my ability to keep up with these lyrics.

  67. 67.

    debbie

    September 28, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    @Baud:

    Do you know if Hubble will be decommissioned?

  68. 68.

    TriassicSands

    September 28, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    Betty, thank you for all the photos of swamp things, especially the birds. I live diagonally across the country from you and don’t ever see most of the critters you photograph. I’ve never been to Florida and plan to avoid it for the rest of my time on the planet, so I really appreciate the Moorhens and other swamp critters.

    Note: I don’t need any photos of mosquitos unless they are the size of condors.

  69. 69.

    TriassicSands

    September 28, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    @Baud:

    I’ll be amazed if those involved in the project survive the launch and deployment. This could be the most nerve-wracking mission in the history of our space program. The telescope is so expensive, so far behind schedule, and going so far from earth that everything has to work perfectly.

  70. 70.

    cope

    September 28, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @debbie: Since HST observes mainly in visible and UV frequencies and the JWST will observe in the infrared part of the spectrum, the JWST (please change the name) is not really a Hubble replacement, they are meant to be complementary to each other. The current plan is to keep using the Hubble as long as it’s doing useful science.

  71. 71.

    joel hanes

    September 28, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    Maybe it’s Moor as in Othello,
    not moor as in Scottish uplands

  72. 72.

    jame

    September 28, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Any poule d’eau down there?

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