“Wonder what happened to the dinosaurs?

[mitch@hachyderm.io]

“Wonder what happened to the dinosaurs? This is a baby Blue Heron." https://leviathan-supersystem.tumblr.com/post/149809167589/clayorey-wonder-what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@mitch

`I AM A VELOCIRAPTOR`

Sure you are Oscar, sure you are.

Kidding aside, blue herons are pretty fucking big. Thankfully not too aggressive (not like Canada geese (cobra chickens) or swans (Fingerators)) but big and menacing, the way they just stand in swamps and on stumps. Judging. Sulking. Like a vampire. Like if your mother in law was a vampire.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@mitch image description:

a small bird looking suspiciously like a angry feathered velociraptor

[schamschula@mastodon.social]

@mitch If you ever have heard the primal sound they make when they take flight, you realize this resemblance isn't a coincidence.

[beerandashot@dmv.community]

@tezoatlipoca @mitch Heh, back in the early 2000s my parents lived in Columbus, OH, and a blue heron was flying from yard to yard eating all the fish out of people's ponds. Mom let their two large dogs out to chase it away when it came to them, but it just unfolded its wings and stared at them.
They ran back into the house.

[stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tezoatlipoca @mitch now do cassowaries!