#suitors

Caribbean flamingos at the Dallas Zoo show off for potential #suitors with a synchronized “false feeding” behavior. While it can look like normal filter-feeding in a snapshot, this is actually part of the multi-step #flamingo #courtship #dance each breeding season. Flamingo are one of the only birds where both sexes simultaneously participate in the same mating display! First they head-flag and honk (swipe for a photo of that straight-neck posture and a beguiling closeup of a male showing off), and once enough birds join in, they march as a group or break off to false-feed. #pinkbirds #fancydancer #breedingseason #seasonoflove #loveisintheair (at Dallas Zoo)
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Progress update on the Victorian Cthulhu boating party, that I started ages ago. Almost all of the elements that I’ve been working on over the past several months have come together.

- Deep One damsel and her Cthonic beau? Check
- grasshopper punter? Check
- servants in the water? Check
- menacing willow tree? Check
- swamp creature asking for tea? Check
- crocodile with sea tube worms? Check
- melting temple with tourists? Check
- foreboding cloud toad? Check
- unsafe stone bridge with pedestrians? Check
- toad fisherman fighting his catch? Check
- twisted manor house? Check
- creepy shadow bird? Check
- giant mutated turtle? Check
- lotus blossom fireflies? Check
- carnivorous lily pads? Check

Assembling them so each got a spot without blocking the others was an interesting puzzle.

Line work complete. Now for digital inking and color.