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Author: RickRick
Date: Jun 8, 2010 03:26
While I am thinking about it we did not see one Common Yellow Throat and
heard only 1 Yellow Warbler; However, there were masses of
Black-throated Green Warblers and Red-eyed Vireos.
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Rick Holbrook
Fargo, ND
N 46°53'251"
W 096°48'279"
Remember the USS Liberty
http://www.ussliberty.org/
Reply to: fholbrookatcableone.net
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Author: RickRick
Date: Jun 8, 2010 02:01
On 6/3/2010 9:47 AM, Wilson wrote:
> sometime in the recent past ---MIKE--- posted this:
>> I am wondering why I have so few hummers this year while two neighbors
>> (less than a quarter mile away) have hordes of them. During the first
>> half of May I was taking my feeders in at night (after dark) and putting
>> them back out about 5:30 AM. This was because bears were still around.
>> Could it be that migrating hummers arrive after dark and when there were
>> no feeders they looked elsewhere?
>>
>>
>> ---MIKE---
>>>> In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
>>>> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')
>>
> Hi Mike. As you know, I'm east of you at sea level and we have what
> seems to be the usually contingency of hummers around. I don't have to
> take my feeder in and quite often, when there is nothing but twilight
> out, I'll see hummers filling up for the night at my feeder.
>
> I will note that we have much less of a black fly or mosquito problem so ...
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Author: dickr2dickr2
Date: Jun 8, 2010 00:30
I've mentioned before that I have a very small area (<500 sq.ft.)
of totally shaded lawn that's heavily populated with moss, sweet
violets, and other green stuff that I'll mow a few times a year.
I recently purchased a corded electric lawn mower that works quite
well - after I figured out the mowing pattern and where to toss the
cord without running over it. I just ordered an electric chain saw
for cutting down small trees like buckthorn and trimming tree
branches. These items, combined with my electric weed whip and leaf
blower means I don't have to store any more gas cans with 20:1 or
40:1 fuel mixtures in my garage. I don't make much noise anymore!
FWIW
Dick in MN
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Author: Robert CohenRobert Cohen
Date: Jun 7, 2010 23:23
I have Pennington seed feeders
I am filling 'em up every third--fourth day or so
Everday I see a brave, bright red cardinal and saw a beaurtiful blue
bird today, a gold finch I saw there a month or so ago
The cardinal is "brave" because he usually eats first !
Well, Home Depot sells VERY effective foul-odor fly traps, after
awhile the flies are exhauted and fall into the trap water bottom, ya
wouldn't believe it till ya see so many accumulate in just a few days-
weeks
I've not fed the dead flies to birds, because some or all of the
dozens/hundreds are possibly if not probably diseased
The fly traps, as a kind of experiment, are now placed no more than
20 feet from bird feeders, because I want to know if "my" domestic
birds may also be able to catch/eat live house flies ever now and
then?
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Author: RickRick
Date: Jun 7, 2010 21:52
On 6/6/2010 3:44 PM, dickr2 wrote:
> Catbirds have been annual visitors in my back yard for
> many years, but this year - none.
> Maybe some of you folks in the S and SE can tell the
> Catbirds to C'mon up to Minnesota, the weather's fine.
> :-)
> Dick in MN
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Author: Steve BSteve B
Date: Jun 1, 2010 06:53
"Jester's mummy" wrote in message
news:cuo806p4ujjnb8utrt089fg67p35oqio7h@4ax.com...> On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:23:52 -0500, "MaryL"
> yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote:
>>><(((*>
>><(((*>"Steve B" hotmail.com> wrote in message
>><(((*>news:aumdd7-t2b.ln1@news.infowest.com...
>><(((*>> Cute little things. Peep peep peep. But they nested in our metal
>>awning
>><(((*>> this year, and I didn't have the heart to evict them when they had
>>young
>><(((*>> ones. But now they have all fledged out, and I got out the power
>>washer
>><(((*>> and cleaned up all the nests and all the poop on the patio.
>><(((*>>
>><(((*>> What would you suggest for a nesting barrier? My wife suggested
>>things
>><(((*>> like that spiky stuff they use for pigeons, but I think they would
>>look at ...
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Author: RJPRJP
Date: May 14, 2010 02:51
On May 12, 8:26 pm, Charlie yahoo.com> wrote:
The first two on the upper left are Wilson's Warblers, and all the
rest are female Yellow Warblers.
Randy
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Author: RayRay
Date: May 13, 2010 21:43
"ntantiques@ aol.com" aol.com> wrote:
> If I were even vaguely competent with my digital camera I'd try to
> catch a shot. Anybody have any suggestions about photographing
> birds through double paned windows?
If possible, the best way would be to open the window and wait for the
birds to come back. Maybe close the blind or drapes most of the way
and shoot through a small opening.
If you must shoot through the glass, make sure it's really clean on
both sides. Avoid having sunshine on the window, which will make any
dirt show up more. Shoot perpendicular to the glass, or as close to it
as you can get, to minimize multiple images.
Good luck!
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Ray
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Author: RayRay
Date: May 13, 2010 21:36
Jerry Avins ieee.org> wrote:
> Instead of hanging it, support it on a stand so it doesn't jiggle.
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Ray
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Author: Otto BahnOtto Bahn
Date: May 13, 2010 18:56
My son had a sleep over, and at 10 pm they all wanted
to go out snipe hunting. They came back over two hours
later and said they spotted one of the rare birds, but
I've never heard of them.
--oTTo--
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