h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Great video - sorry about the snow so late in the season, but the red cardinal with the red buds and white snow is definitely a greetings card-worthy image - beautiful

Weird weather here, too - yesterday it was 26C and today it was 10C - quite the difference

, indeed! Stay warm!

Oh, I went back and looked - that's not a cardinal. We have them, but there wasn't one in the video. Male cardinals are red all over. The red-headed fellow, which everybody in the US keeps calling a 'red-headed sparrow', is probably a house finch.

Ah, thank you.

I noticed the black bird has a longer beak compared to the blackbirds I am familiar with (in the thrush family) but I think I recognise it from Angry Birds - is it called a blackbird, too?

We're pretty sure that's a blackbird - there are several kinds of them around here. They're icteridae rather than thrushes.

This is fun! We get to compare birds, and everybody figures out where those Angry Birds came from.

Especially those triangular ones...

What difference an hour can make...

Imagine me, trying to concentrate on the report I am writing while working from home. Me and my laptop are sitting next to the backyard window on the ground floor. Two weeks ago, we decided that it would be now or never for the birdfeed grains, so we threw them out on the wide outside windowsill.
I pour my fifth cup of tea-ish (this still is the coldest spot in the house by far, but at least it is away from the rest of the household working on their respective computers, apparently making homework, probably watching Youtube though).

A sound...

Fluttering of wings.

Hello Coal tit, what are you looking in on me? Are you into engineering as well? Most birds don't make use of heavy duty diesel engines, I guess...
If you are hungry: Please help yourself to some of those grains.

There you go.

Time passes. The keyboard rattles.

Why do I get the idea that I am being watched... again...

Hi vole, like the pumpkin kernels? I haven't seen you before.

Off you go.

Time passes. The keyboard rattles some more.

Tea-ish number six is well gone.

There we go again

Hello neighbour Cat...

Unless you are a vegetarian cat, you are about one hour too late for your lunch, is all I can say.

As chance would have it, looking out my window right now, I can actually see the beginnings of a zombie apocalypse!

The cold rain is bouncing off a chrome skull, splashing the rattlesnake, and making pinging sounds on the rusty, ivy-covered Route 66 sign.

True story. The end?

Now you make me want to play that song by The Cranberries.

It's dry here, but only just. (The clouds are threatening to burst)

There is an unfamiliar yellow object in our sky. Could it be the sun? And not a snowflake in sight...

If it moves very fast, it could be a potato.

Vogons! Where's my foil hat?

Hang on, I'm just hammering that block of tin into foil.