First of all, I love the art you made with your image in photoshop. Really beautiful. Secondly, how do you know how much alcohol it takes to give a waxwing a buzz?
Thanks! I decided not to use AI for image generation anymore, but I still have some fun with my own images. About the waxwings, the Eriksson & Nummi paper I cited said that the waxwings do not change their behavior after ingesting alcoholic rose hips. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t get a little buzz. Let’s ask the next waxwing we run into.
Here in the west, many of the rose hips are totally unpalatable (to us), no matter the ripeness. They just taste like wax. This past weekend we finally found some that were ripe and sweet/sour on a ranch high in the transition zone. They were swarming with birds. Dark eyed juncoes I believe, though I am not a bird person.
Very interesting! It sounds like humans and birds agree on what tastes good and what doesn’t it. Gardeners are usually not too happy about that agreement.
First of all, I love the art you made with your image in photoshop. Really beautiful. Secondly, how do you know how much alcohol it takes to give a waxwing a buzz?
Thanks! I decided not to use AI for image generation anymore, but I still have some fun with my own images. About the waxwings, the Eriksson & Nummi paper I cited said that the waxwings do not change their behavior after ingesting alcoholic rose hips. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t get a little buzz. Let’s ask the next waxwing we run into.
Here in the west, many of the rose hips are totally unpalatable (to us), no matter the ripeness. They just taste like wax. This past weekend we finally found some that were ripe and sweet/sour on a ranch high in the transition zone. They were swarming with birds. Dark eyed juncoes I believe, though I am not a bird person.
Very interesting! It sounds like humans and birds agree on what tastes good and what doesn’t it. Gardeners are usually not too happy about that agreement.