rcrxs old lady
How are you feeling?...everything healing okay?....you havent said too much about yourself (health wise) lately and we were wondering...
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quote: The first Star Wars theam song, is a song played backwards.
What is the name of that song-
quote: Dum-Dum---Dadada- DUM-DUM-dadada-DUM DUM-dadadaDUM...
Not a clue....
Ok- the question was the hardest, of the hard, trivia-
The answer is-
The song is "Born Free" (from the movie sound track born free)
[:D]
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just for you
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/8148/0 -
You have probably explained this before but the military guy on the wall , is this someone you know or just a download from the internet ?
Neat.0 -
Hey, I like your Morrison sig. I was reading the other day what was on his grave marker: "True to his soul". I always enjoyed his music. Have you ever heard "An American Prayer"?
Ben0 -
You mentioned in another post you like to feed the birds and to identify them...
You stated you also received a copy of the Audubon Guide to North American Birds...Have you tried Peterson's Guide?...I prefer his guide to anything else...the pics are clearer, more details in the descrip, etc but that is my preferance....
What do you feed yours?..what feeders do you have?...
Now I know everyone else will read this too, so if you feed birds etc, then tell us about the feeders, what you have feeding etc...0 -
Check your post..>I found a copy for you.. 0 -
Feeders ??
My cats feed on birds.
I think, as a feeder myself, that turkey is one of my favorite birds.
Doug0 -
Ahhh, another bird-brain! Cool!!!
No. I have not tried Peterson's Guide. To be honest, I never heard of it. I've had my old Audubon Society guide since I was a little girl, and it was very user friendly, so I was heart-broken when it came up missing. I'll have to check out Peterson's. Thanks!
The new one isn't bad, it is also user friendly, it has nice, comprehensive, glossy photos of the bird in the front, then the page # to flip to in the back for info. The old guide had paintings/drawings of the birds on the right page, and the general info on the bird on the left page. The only thing I don't like about it vs. my old copy is that the old copy showed pictures of both sexes and juvies, as well as silhouettes of the bird in flight or perching.
My "combination bird/cat feeders?"
Right now, I have feeders with regular wild birdfeed and sunflower seed, I have a perching type-feeders with a tray, and a wire-covered, tubular one for tree-climbing and songbirds. They seem to like the sunflower seeds more. All of them dig the suet blocks with berries.
I get a nice variety, chickadees, cardinals, junkos, titmice, pheobes, nuthatches, wrens, finches, and two varieties of woodpeckers, and the occasional mourning dove. I just don't like the blue jays, greedy, noisy birds. I try to scare them away when they come. I used to have houses for purple martins when we lived near an open field. I miss them, they are fun to watch, and eat mosquitoes.
Thanks for asking. Nice to know there is someone else out there who shares my hobby, who I might be able to go to for some advice!
Tell me about yours, BR.0 -
I have two of the "anti-squirrel" types around my place.
I typically just pick up one of the 20 pound bags of mixed seed at Lowe's.
Lots of Cardinals around here!0 -
quote:Ahhh, another bird-brain! Cool!!!
I already knew that both of you were,.....well already stated![:D]0 -
watcha you ladies know about bees? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
watcha you ladies know about bees?
They can smell fear....
Oh, I get it...[:D]0 -
Right now I have robins, (oh yea it floored me the first year I seen robins at christmas), cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, wren (specifically carolina wren) bluejays, purple finches, redpolls, titmouse, mocking birds, 3 types of doves, flickers, woodpeckers, (2 kinds)....and sparrows of god knows what kind *LOL they all look different...oh yea, red winged blackbirds too...
Classic says it looks like the ground is moving at times, there are so many doves out there...I have even had a turkey at the feeder on time...was'nt Doug either....[}:)][}:)][}:)]
I have the usual feeders, but do sprinkle a lot on the ground for the doves etc...
I will have the rose breasted grosbeak and the blue grosbeak here at times as well...
I love birds, have fed them for as long as I can remember, and raised orphaned wild birds too...
And yeppers, I am proud to be a fellow bird-brain *LOL...
Marc, watch it....[}:)][}:)]
1911a1...we have forgotten more about the bees than you will ever know...[;)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
1911a1...we have forgotten more about the bees than you will ever know...[;)]
i'm willing to learn it all over[:)]
there wasn't many ways to answer that, sorry i couldn't resist0 -
BR,......I have most of what you mentioned around here also.
I enjoy watching them.
I had 8 polt turkeys in the trees a few months ago.
Posted a pic, but it didn't turn out too well because of the shade.
Guess I'm a "birdbrain" too!
Oh man, did I just open a door.[:0]0 -
I much prefer the Sibley guide to any of the others, more complete, more information and much newer than the very old Peterson or even the third edition of the Audubon guide.
http://tinyurl.com/3dvagk
It is also offered in smaller eastern and western versions.0 -
I always thought you were a buzzard Marc...*ROTFLMAO
rcrxs old lady...Petersons guide has the young, older, both sexes, flights, and silhouettes as well....he has the guides to eastern , western, central etc, and also in the back which I found absolutely great was accidentals...They were sightings and reports of birds from asia, africa that usually strayed off the beaten "path" and ended up in North America...I had a green woodpecker, (yes its documented) that somehow ended up from europe in the bush behind the house...Was told it was probably blown off course in flight....
I found the book the absolute best...0 -
Squirrels aren't usually much of a problem. Mine are hung pretty precariously, so much so that I will occasionally get a brave and exceptionally athletic chipmunk make it's way to the feeder, and that is well worth the price of admission to watch.[:D]
My concern with leaving too much on the ground is attracting mice, as I like to keep mine closer to the house.0 -
quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
I always thought you were a buzzard Marc...*ROTFLMAO
rcrxs old lady...Petersons guide has the young, older, both sexes, flights, and silhouettes as well....he has the guides to eastern , western, central etc, and also in the back which I found absolutely great was accidentals...They were sightings and reports of birds from asia, africa that usually strayed off the beaten "path" and ended up in North America...I had a green woodpecker, (yes its documented) that somehow ended up from europe in the bush behind the house...Was told it was probably blown off course in flight....
I found the book the absolute best...
That is cool, I will have to check it out. Yeah, that was another problem I saw with this particular version of the Audubon guide, it is just eastern US, and should a breed from another area stray into my yard, I would not be able to identify it.0 -
quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
I always thought you were a buzzard Marc...*ROTFLMAO
rcrxs old lady...Petersons guide has the young, older, both sexes, flights, and silhouettes as well....he has the guides to eastern , western, central etc, and also in the back which I found absolutely great was accidentals...They were sightings and reports of birds from asia, africa that usually strayed off the beaten "path" and ended up in North America...I had a green woodpecker, (yes its documented) that somehow ended up from europe in the bush behind the house...Was told it was probably blown off course in flight....
I found the book the absolute best...
May want to have Classic go to the doc![:0]0 -
Check this site out.
http://www.ejphoto.com/Birds.htm0 -
Here's another site.
http://www.whatbird.com/0 -
Here we have....wait a minute! Useless Info! Where's here!!
Here (Upstate NY-In the Catskill Mtns.) My mom likes to look at cardinals, etc. We have a birdfeeder that attracts squirrels/racoons, cardinals, chickadees, woodpeckers junkos and warblers. Wintertime. Spring/Autumn, all kinds of birds-in-transit. Mom loves the seed dispenser. Neat. Joe0 -
Have feeders here for over thirteen years - get three kinds of Woodpecker: Pileated, Hairy, and Downey, Tons of Stellers Jays, nuthatches, pine siskins, Red-Winged Blackbirds, Cardinals, but not the really red ones like in the East. We also get two kinds of Doves, Crows, Starlings, Flickers, Tanagers (only sometimes), Finches (red, purple, and yellow), Three kinds of hawks (Griffin, Merlin, and I don't remember)- not included are the Red-Tail Hawks that only come to get rats and mice and snakes.
We get Rats and Mice, which I shoot with the Air Rifle, and after the first two or so, where I observed that the pellets went completely through them, I just leave them out for the Owls - several kinds.
Have several breeding sets of Eagles, but they don't come to the feeders - they just fly over to the dead tops of Firs and snap off the most incredibly large old limbs to fly away with to make their nests - two to three inches at the thickest, sometimes as long as ten feet! If the limbs are too heavy, they just let them fall, onto our roofs, cars, driveways, etc!
EDIT: "here" is Puget Sound area of Washington State.
We also get Juncos, and have had a few bluebirds through here in seasons past - not this year. Thrush, Sparrows, Grosbeaks, Cowbirds, the rare (for here) Scrub Jay, Chickadees, too.
I was sure I missed some, so I accessed the Wife's memory banks for the ones I couldn't remember.0 -
Red Tail Hawks and Bald Eagles - and a bunch of different colored and different sized smaller birds that fly like hell to get away from them.
Doug0
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