My wife’s work computer desktop background changed itself today, and she called me in to see it. I said, “that’s a Saw Whet.” Not believing me, she looked up the credits and said, “get out! It is!”

I owe it all to !superbowl. I couldn’t have identified even a Snowy before this community.

Thanks, anon6789.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍OP
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    13 hours ago

    My wife said I should provide the attribution; to MS’s credit (and rarely do I give MS credit for anything) they made finding the background attribution easy.

    However, I didn’t only because I wasn’t so much submitting the photo itself, but the photo of the desktop as illustration about the story. I could have posted my story without the photo and it would still have communicated what I wanted. I suppose the distinction is in what the topic of the post was - the photo, or the story? For me, it was the story.

    If I’d been submitting the photo for the photo’s sake, I’d have included the attribution. I probably should have, anyway.

    Thanks for linking to the original, so folks can see it in all its glory, and see who the artist is.