#Spotted Nutcracker

[uwmspeccoll]

A Corvidae Feathursday

Here are some more wood-engraved birds -- both black and white and hand-colored --by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his 1948 publication Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies. Today we display all the corvids from this volume, from top to bottom:

Common Raven (Corvus corax)

Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)

Red-billed Chough (pronounced "chuf"; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) 

Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)

Rook (Corvus frugilegus)

 Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)

 Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Read more about this book plus view a hand-colored engraving of a Hoopoe here.

View more Feathursday posts.

[birdblues]

Spotted Nutcracker

[tealbirder]

03 - Taiga (and a spotted nutcracker :>)

[corvid-language-library]

お邪魔します！

邪魔（じゃま）= hindrance, obstacle, nuisance, disturbance, interruption, interference

I just learned this phrase the other day. It's used when entering someone's house and kinda means "please excuse the intrusion!" or "I'm coming in!" (Or, literally: "I'm being a nuisance!" How very Japanese 😅)

Or, if you're an anime/video game bad boy, you can say: "邪魔するぞと"

[savage-rhi]

My legs and arms hurt from the climbing I did to get some of these views, but it's well worth it.

[thebusylilbee]

never heard of Nucifraga caryocatactes aka the Spotted Nutcracker until today :

this is a corvid who essentially feeds on the seeds of pines, especially the Pinus Cembra also known as the Swiss Pine. They can handle more than 6000 hiding spots at the same time ! This one, unlike its cousin the Jay, doesn't even need markings to find the hiding spots, the visual factor is not part of its memorization process. They can create their hiding spots more than 20km away from where they found the food and still find it again many months later.

France Culture just released a podcast series on corvids in France !!! fuck yeah I know what im doing in the next hours !!!

[isas-bathbombs]

You deserve questions too sammy!

For example, which barbie movie is your favorite?

OH MY GOD IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS QUESTION

i have a few favs this is so hard 😭 in general its always been barbie fairy secret, mariposa and the fairy princess, princess charm school, and pink shoes.

whats urs??

[chronicparagon]

[Small headcanon: Harmony adores ballet. She never got the chance to learn it but would love to see performances if she could. “The Nutcracker” is one she really wants to see.]

[twomothsholdinghands]

I swear a fnaf-type game set in Yankee Candle Village could slap so hard. Uncanny animatronic men and reindeer chasing you through room after room of kitschy home decor. Combine the nostalgia of childhood with white women jumpscares

[ndostairlyrium]

From the OC shop asks: Their pet has caused destruction. Who puts the pet in jail? Who defends the pet?

For as many of your ships as you'd like!

Hi!!! Thanks for asking 💛

El Memo

Oh dear, so, I'm going for all of them lol

Ela & Alistair; She defends the dog, because he's a good boy and he defended Ferelden when times were dire. Alistair would blame the dog for a mess he himself would make << he'd gladly put him into jail too

Barbara & Fenris; The dog did nothing wrong. Destruction was necessary.

Ankh & Cullen; It depends on which pet has caused it (they have 5, horsies included).

Cullen is firmer when educating pets and jail is an option, unless it's Cornelia (Ankh's red hart). Cornelia is rather smart and if she causes destruction there's a good reason behind it (no there isn't, he excuses her because she's fierce). He would explain to her what's wrong, she gets it (yes she does. Will she listen? No.)

Ankh is more on the "eh" side, like, she doesn't care if they do a mess, they're animals, just let them be. But! She does hate the damn crow, and it's reciprocated. Cage it is! Until he frees himself.

[senkayro]

technically an assassin protag will be a rook and crow simultaneously

that's the post

you get DOUBLE the bird symbolism babyyy

[courcgecus]

In mouse world, the Mouse King is pure strength build judging down magic users.

[canonrenaissance]

CR • Christmas Tree Farm

[jagalart]

Corvids

A set of stickers commissioned by the awesome @kyrjaa, who let me print and sell these in the future! Thank you again for this wonderful opportunity, I had so much fun with these <3

The set includes all corvids living in our part of Europe except for one - I need to draw Spotted nutcracker sometime as well :D

[corvid-language-library]

Another interesting translation choice

Quick reminder that my Japanese is actually not very good/I'm still in the pre-intermediate phase of learning, so I may have misinterpreted things or made mistakes. Please correct me if I have!

I just learned the particle combo "かよ" today. Apparently it's used to express disbelief, or a rhetorical question, or signify something like "no way I'd..." or "as if I'd..." or "like I'd..." in a casual/rough/masculine way. For example:

知るかよ -> Like I'd know / The hell am I supposed to know?

本当かよ -> For real??

マジかよ -> Are you friggin' serious?

食べるかよ -> As if I'd eat that

And then I came across it later on in this context:

クラウド: 解除方法は？ レノ: 言うかよ

Which – if I've understood the grammar correctly – translated literally would be something like:

Cloud: The way to cancel it? Reno: Like I'd tell you

But instead they went with:

Cloud: How do we stop it? Reno: Who knows?

Obviously the translation for Cloud's line is a much better and a more natural fit than a word-for-word literal translation. "The way to cancel it?" just isn't something you'd say in English in this context. But Reno's line struck me as interesting. When playing in English originally, I assumed that by this Reno meant he genuinely didn't know how to stop it (not that he would say even if he did know). His mission was to initiate the plate separation, after all; it would make perfect sense that he wouldn't be given the instructions on how to stop it. Why would he need that information?

But knowing the original Japanese, it makes me think this was probably a play on his sarcastic personality. Of course he knows how to stop it. Of course he's not going to say. And this is said as he's passing out, which makes me think very much it's him having the last laugh. "Who knows? Probably me. Definitely not you. Good luck, asshole."

Of course, other people may have got what I failed to get without the original Japanese to compare. And it could still be that he doesn't actually know, and the implication from the Japanese is also "I don't know, and I sure as shit wouldn't tell you if I did" (although I think they'd have gone with 知るかよ in that case). It's a very short line, after all. Still, it's interesting that I got distinctly different impressions about the sentiment in each language. Ultimately, it doesn't make that much of a difference; the story hardly hinges on it, and it's not critical to Reno's character either.

Thoughts?

[beingjellybeans]

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