#dubies

[fascinator-birds]

Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis)

© Dubi Shapiro

[birds-and-flowers]

Orangequit (Euneornis campestris)

© Dubi Shapiro

[newtafterdark]

10:40 pm, Germany. After 37°C/98°F the past few days~

(Shoutout to a fella named Ingo on Spoofy who made playlists of the German Top100 charts of the early 00s! They've been keeping me sane the last couple of days~)

[federer7]

Ruby Duby Do. New York, 1982

Photo: Ryan Weideman (A Taxi Driver)

[birds-that-screm]

Rodrigues Fody (Foudia flavicans)

© Dubi Shapiro

[nightmare-birds]

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

© Dubi Shapiro

[is-that-bird--you-know]

Frances's Sparrowhawk (Accipiter francesiae)

© Dubi Shapiro

[flight-freeze-frame]

Red-and-green Macaw (Ara chloropterus)

© Dubi Shapiro

[eretzyisrael]

Har Dov (lit. Mount Dov) is the westernmost slope of the Mount Hermon. Standing over 1,500 meters above sea level, the mountain range is named after Dov “Dubi” Rodberg, a Golani officer who was killed on the mountain trying to evacuate a wounded soldier.

After Israel bested Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and gained control over the area, the IDF established an array of army bases on Har Dov, whose commanding position and height grants the IDF a strategic lookout over Southern Lebanon. 

Har Dov also has religious significance. Mount BiTarim, the mountain on which the Biblical Covenant of the Pieces (Brit Bein HaBitarim) between Abraham and God is said to have taken place, is one of the mountain peaks of Har Dov. 

The Sheeba Farms, a small geographical area claimed by both Lebanon and Syria – and won by Israel in 1967 – is situated in what Israel refers to as Har Dov. Today, Lebanon often uses the Sheeba Farms as a casus belli to continue its war against Israel.

Im Tirtzu 

[fascinator-birds]

White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa)

© Dubi Shapiro

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A foggy day at the Smoky Mountains.

Photographer: Dubi N.

[davidjohnlemahieu]

gonna get no hit and swept by the reds huh

[insilverrolled]

Horace

By Norman Dubie

Along the borders of the Sabine farm, Runners of strychnine and lime, A bearded man stands in a wheelbarrow Singing. And why not? Give him The vegetables he wants. Or knock his brains out with the loose Curbstone from the well. The Goths Have been defeated, and Maecenas was his friend.

We meet eye to eye. He will braid the silk On the husks. This man is drunk. The cloudburst sends you running for the trees And one woman reaches the house. He is still Standing in the wheelbarrow, soaked and loud. The poor canvas theatre in the provincial town Drove him out. Here in the hills Caesar is a spectacle of dead trout Washed with smashed mint and lemons. What have I kept back? Only this: there is no way to leave him.

[birds-that-screm]

Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)

© Dubi Shapiro

[jar3]

You guys I’m getting scared. Like my body’s already having a visceral reaction to this show I genuinely don’t know how I’m gonna deal with the next few eps. Not ready for next week.

[phenixfarts]

ok kobold done! 

Dubi and his companion Genevieve