I read an article about aphantasia a couple days ago, just stumbled on it, and realized that I have complete aphantasia. I've been feeling a kind of vague depression about it ever since, like a new distinct feeling that something is missing, even though I've been like this my whole life. I started sobbing just reading the article, making these connections.

I guess I'm just wondering if this is normal, did anyone else in this community grieve over the loss of... something we've never had anyway?

Look at that honker!

She's hoping that you'll trip over her. If you go around, she'll lunge out at your ankles. Loads of fun either way!

We just got a batch of ten baby chicks! Two days old and they are already having a blast climbing and jumping off a little rock and sticks. This batch are all females, and are a random variety of "exotic" chickens. When their real feathers grow in it'll be fun to figure out what breeds we got!

They are just in an XL dog crate with foil insulation around the bottom edge, and a red heat lamp hanging from the top of the crate. I don't know if the foil actually helps retain any heat, but it does keep the chicks from escaping. It's a high security henitentiary.

My flock befriended this strange white bird today. It's the large one in the background of the attached pictures. It's the size of a small turkey, grey and white, with a prominent crest. It ate some scratch with my girls, then ate some wild blackberries, and departed into the woods.

We're in upstate NY. I've never seen a bird like this before. It almost looks like a peacock but, again, it's white and we are in upstate NY.

The girls liked her, she seemed harmless - they usually lose their shit if even a little sparrow tries to snag some scratch. They alert me to turkeys and deer regularly but didn't mind this stranger at all.

Can anyone help me identify this bird?