Picture from RSPB page on these great creatures.
Owl of the year has this squishy bird against the favourite, I was hoping to stir up some support.
Mwah! 2x
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You look to be having some effect! Little has pulled ahead.
Stop the count!
We're a wee bit premature 😇
It's another match where I expected the historical favourites to surge ahead, but so many of the rounds have been back and forth.
It makes me curious how much of it is my changes in matchmaking vs your guys just having different opinions than you did this time last year.
I don't know if I will change anything for next year, as this seems to be working well. I wish Piefed's polling system worked on Lemmy so we could have more of a blind poll, but it is what it is. Using an external polling site just seems like more work for me and a potential deterrent for you guys by making you go somewhere else.
oh my goodness how sweet 🥺
Ok. I'll admit: þis is pretty effective propaganda.
It was really wearing down my thoughts by the end! If I got a vote, I probably would have changed it by the end!
"Moom, daaad, staaahp!"
but the parasitic earworms would not come out voluntarily, and so they kept pulling
Ewwww 😄