NO insects or spring birds this year.

[DeepCMark58A]

I hope for another summer like last summer we got to sit at the end of the dock and watch loons fish and teach their youngster. Loon migration is amazing. We are so blessed to live on a super clear lake with visibility on a secchi of 14 feet.

 

[tphoyt]

I had a female Cardinal bird pecking at her own reflection in a basement window. Everyday

I watched a Turkey do that once to the chrome bumper on my truck. I had a good laugh.

 

[tphoyt]

I hope for another summer like last summer we got to sit at the end of the dock and watch loons fish and teach their youngster. Loon migration is amazing. We are so blessed to live on a super clear lake with visibility on a secchi of 14 feet.

Sounds like a fun thing to watch.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Sounds like a fun thing to watch.

I live at the end of a penulisa beautiful bay out my garage window. I spend a lot of time watching birds negotiate bay space in the spring. I saw something this spring I watched loons mate, considering how vocal loons are the process was very quiet. Cross that off a birders list.

 

[cyclops222]

Barnacles cut without any pain. Been there also. My right thigh was covered with blood. Felt nothing. By the time we reached the mini hospital. Much had stopped. Luck beats skill.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Just saw the first oriole glad the jelly was out, I was a week early.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Barnacles cut without any pain. Been there also. My right thigh was covered with blood. Felt nothing. By the time we reached the mini hospital. Much had stopped. Luck beats skill.

Yeah I have a bruise on the other side of the cut and that was more painful the next morning than the cut ever was.

 

[Mc Tool]

I watched a Turkey do that once to the chrome bumper on my truck. I had a good laugh.

Ha ha I had a turkey peckin at my Capri's front bumper ......at about 100km/h, whoohoo you shoulda seen it cartwheelin down the road in the rear view mirror ,big twin vortex of swirling feathers , man did we laugh ,specially when we saw this old dude, eyes like dinner plates, standing on the side of the road , actually , might have been his turkey . Still got the ding in the front valance .
Aah man , that day is one of the things me and Di go back to when its time to have a laugh.

 

[redneck joe]

We are so blessed to live on a super clear lake with visibility on a secchi of 14 feet.

Grew up in the PNW and sure do miss the clear waters.

 

[redneck joe]

We had a robin for a few weeks pecking at the window.


We are in a different situation. Out house built in 2000 was built with 12 others in a farm field. The house in in a line half mile long with others so no cluster of bird habitat aka trees. There is a fence line about 300 yards out back but when we moved here in 2008 it was brand new. Now years later it is grown up so it is attracting wildlife, deer and such as well as birds. They love our three feeders. Plus there is an acre lot next to us that has been left untouched for about 6 years now that is growing up so attracting birds. And habits and such, so we are increasing just because of increased habitat.

I also planted 48 baby Holly trees along our road front about 5 years ago that are all about chest high now bearing fruits and last two years we've started having nests so in another 10 years should be full.

Our three oaks are also about 30 ft now so lots of traffic in those.

 

[cyclops222]

My county has just about stopped all farms. Plus there are no wild crops or nut trees. Animals starve or move out. Not surprising. I still have a starving herd of wandering deer.

 

[redneck joe]

Have you become urbanized?

 

[cyclops222]

So I leave Jersey on May 1 and come back Oct. 1
It helps.

 

[JimDirt]

Ha ha I had a turkey peckin at my Capri's front bumper ......at about 100km/h, whoohoo you shoulda seen it cartwheelin down the road in the rear view mirror ,big twin vortex of swirling feathers , man did we laugh ,specially when we saw this old dude, eyes like dinner plates, standing on the side of the road , actually , might have been his turkey . Still got the ding in the front valance .
Aah man , that day is one of the things me and Di go back to when its time to have a laugh.

Capri???? Let’s see it, I’ll show you mine

 

[JimDirt]

I saw this young hawk last year scooting on the ground out in the pasture. I knew he didn’t look well. I caught him, no signs of injury so I put him or her back out in the pasture and let nature run it’s course. A couple days I found it dead. I think a concerned mama was watching me.

 

[tphoyt]

I found a baby owl in the road one time during a storm. It was beat up pretty bad. I took it to the local rehab guy in the morning and he nursed it back to health. After he released it it hung around the house for 3 years before finally moving on.

 

[FLATHEAD]

I found a baby owl in the road one time during a storm. It was beat up pretty bad. I took it to the local rehab guy in the morning and he nursed it back to health. After he released it it hung around the house for 3 years before finally moving on.

Amazing what these rehabs can do.

 

[JimDirt]

We have a few different species of hawks around here. Big ones, small ones. I think the prevalent one is the Swainsons hawk. I think they have pretty much taken over from the Red Tails.

We also have Magpies, Starling, Jays, tons of Robins, dove, quail, and this time of year we usually have at least a couple different Kildeer nests in our gravel road/driveway. But thinking about it, they seem to be absent this year.



Those Kildeer are amazing. They’ll sit right there in the blazing sun, 95*+ temps. When the little ones hatch they are just the cutest little things. But they all disappear after just a couple of days. It’s difficult to get pics of them

 

[FLATHEAD]

We have a few different species of hawks around here. Big ones, small ones. I think the prevalent one is the Swainsons hawk. I think they have pretty much taken over from the Red Tails.

We also have Magpies, Starling, Jays, tons of Robins, dove, quail, and this time of year we usually have at least a couple different Kildeer nests in our gravel road/driveway. But thinking about it, they seem to be absent this year.

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Those Kildeer are amazing. They’ll sit right there in the blazing sun, 95*+ temps. When the little ones hatch they are just the cutest little things. But they all disappear after just a couple of days. It’s difficult to get pics of them

Back in the day I had a job that put me on a John Deer pulling a 10 foot woods deck mowing hundreds of acres. Those killdeer with the nest right on the ground were something. They would find tiny bare patches and nest right there. When you got near them the adults would run dragging a wing faking injury to lure you away from the nest. Comical and pretty amazing. I managed to avoid them for the most part.

 

[Mc Tool]

Capri???? Let’s see it, I’ll show you mine

I have a 1980 mk3 Capri ( German built ) ,mothballed in my shed ,waiting for my 3.9L Rover V8 re-power. Pix might be a bit difficult as my laptop has sucked a kumera and all my pix are on that ,but Im gettin it fixed (screen has died ) I got my right leg chopped off ( motorbikes for ya) and cant drive a manual (stick ) any more so I have to fit an auto trans (ZF 4hp22 Jaguar XK40 ) and I figured may as well chuck an aluminium V8 in there too ( 3.9L Range Rover ).I will get some pix for you