That’s a baby mourning dove! There are usually two babies so the sibling is likely up in the nest. The parent could feed it on the ground if it feels safe to do so, but I’m not sure if the parents would know how to find it or would feel safe.
TX voter turnout in general and by young people is on the lower end of all of the US states, although young voter turnout is not amazing anywhere.
I spent 10 years of my adult life in Texas, as a young adult avidly into government at all levels no less, and I struggled to cast votes a number of times due pretty much entirely to registration issues. Separately, in Nov 2020, while out of state for work during the presidential election, my partner and I both could not get approved for mail-in ballots and we each had to fly in JUST to vote. Maddening. I’m sure that plenty of people do not have the conviction/resources to buy a last minute flight from their responsibilities just to go vote in a designated building in TX. And we all know it doesn’t have to be like that because plenty of states let people vote from wherever via mail without issue.
Given, I have ADHD and my registration obstacles sometimes were attributed to stupid ADHD mistakes (not understanding my registration hadn’t updated counties with my State ID address change until I was at the poll on Election Day, for example - I would’ve needed to catch this mistake 30 days in advance of Election Day to correct it, or travel across the state to my previous county of residence), but I also know plenty of people who’ve missed their voting chance because they changed last names (marriage/divorce) and documentation wasn’t all updated concurrently, because of limited poll hours/locations especially for hourly workers, because of random voter roll purges, because of confusion around where to vote/register as a college student away from home, etc etc. You can imagine how these woes alone would dampen young people turnout, gerrymandering and jadedness notwithstanding. It is completely intentional by the controlling party in the legislature.
Saw these on a walk recently and I have been obsessed with them since. I think the succulents are related to the invasive “ice plant” highway succulent grass you find all over the California coastline. I’ve never seen such a full bush 😃
I’m having to grow all my succulents in a cabinet this year because of lack of sunlight at my current apartment, and my lithops are pretty thrown off by the whole situation. I lost one (the sunken one) I’ve been afraid to unpot everybody to remove, but the rest seem to be doing alright. Two of the dorothea(?) didn’t split at all this year. At some point I plan to separate by species because some definitely seem to want water more than others.
Oof, I didn’t give this thought when I signed in. I luckily didn’t reuse my password here but that’s a great reminder, and good to know my exposure…
Can you say more about the security issues?Asking for a technology dummy friend.
They’re so derpy and sweet! I scrolled and posted a lot recently on Reddit (wah wah) on the mourning derps and stupid dove nest subreddits (hilarious) because I got a little dove nest in a plant pot on my own porch this spring! The mom actually just had another set of eggs! I have learned a lot about these damn birds.
I really hope you get to see this one grow and get to see the parents, too. Our last set of fledglings spend a lot of their “teenage” days on our balcony railing instead of in the nest and the mom kept on coming back to feed wherever they stood, until eventually they were coaxed to start really flying. Maybe your baby’s parents will swoop down and feed. Or like someone else said the fledgling may just adapt and figure it out - surely it will get hungry enough to try!
I’m officially a bird person thanks to mourning doves!