Every week Hive account@nelinoeva hosts a fun contest in the Feathered Friends Community. This week's theme is Wet Birds.

I love working with Junior. She's a great model and always brings a unique energy and charm to the set. She just loved the idea of a wet birds photo shoot and went out of her way to make the most of the eternal sog of Pacific Northwest.
She really got into character.

This is her when-the-hell-is-it-ever-gonna-stop-raining look. Believable, isn't it?

In spite of the angry bird vibe she so excellently portrayed in these two shots, Junior was laughing though most of the shoot. She even came up with the idea to get a little damp detritus on her bill for added effect.


Since Junior is still a minor the law requires that her dad be present during the shoot. I suggested we get some photos of him, too, since he was just standing around twiddling his thumbs.
Lod's a pretty shy and conservative dude but we convinced him to pose a little.

Ladies, this amazing, intelligent, gentle, uber-mature man is single, after losing his wife on the nest last spring during a record-breaking heat wave. He's been focused on raising his kids for the past six months, but is looking to start dating again. When I suggested he use these photos on his Tinder profile he perked up.

Even got a little saucy.

While I don't normally discuss the financial exchanges between me and my clients, Lod consented to letting me share how he and the family get paid for my time.

Yes, I pay them for my time. And yet I always make a profit. Weird, isn't it?

Here they are getting paid on a dark, wet, beautifully dreary day in Portland, Oregon.

And while you're here, why not check out this lovely video of wet crows in the park that ends with an amazing echoey duet accompanied by the percussive pitter patter of rain drops?

And while you're still here, why not consider subscribing to my YouTube channel and binge-watching all my videos and crow cams to help me achieve my dream of monetizing my time spent with crows so that I can spend more time with crows and make even more videos and monetize that and on and on exponentially until I have the wealth to buy out other crow lovers not just in the US but in the entire WORLD and have the monopoly of all things crow until someone says hey wtf and you all start protesting and boycotting except for that small faction of diehard supporters that ultimately end up storming the White House because they heard it was what you were supposed to do when you want so badly to believe that one greedy bastard being allowed to control the universe will give your life meaning.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Please, just subscribe to my channel. I promise to behave.

Thanks for checking out my entry to the #smap contest! You can use the link at the beginning of the post to see the rules if you want to enter. It ends Sunday, so you still have time to run out and dunk your backyard chickens into a tub of water or drive 400 miles to the beach to get photos of pelicans if it isn't raining where you live and you don't have any old photos of wet birds or run-on sentences clogging up your hard drive.

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P.S.

Here is a post I made of wet crows way back in the early days when I thought Junior was a boy and before I realized that this platform was really and truly uncensored and that people actually appreciate when you take advantage of that so long as you aren't hurting anyone, and that the same people who were excited about you in the beginning will continue to support your work long after the virginesque what-if-my-mom-reads-this tone escapes even though you were pretty certain they would ditch you after they saw how you ended 2021. So much gratitude.

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