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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/1/2021 3:54:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Orm, these aren't birds but monarch butterflies on some purple coneflowers from last Summer. They are remarkable animals that migrate over a thousand mile and more each year, way up into Canada and then return to Mexico to overwinter.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/1/2021 3:55:21 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/1/2021 3:56:12 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/1/2021 4:05:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a small hawk, a sharp-shinned hawk I believe that isn't interested in the seed in that feeder but the birds that were feeding there. You can also see a hummingbird that doesn't seem too worried about the hawk.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/1/2021 5:37:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you, geofflambert.

That is awesome pictures. It brightened my morning considerably.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 2:47:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK Orm, here's your bird for the day. I took this pic of a hawk (it may very well be the same as my previous pic) right after I saw it catch a mouse. It was a big mouse, but still, just a snack.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 2:48:49 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 2:52:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		In that pic he was about 80 feet away from me. I was watching him through an open window. He could see me of course. He took off from those electrical wires and flew straight at me and landed in a maple tree next to my window. He wasn't more than 15' away from me when I took this pic.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 3:18:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		The sky looks different in those shots because some weather was rolling in. When a hawk has a meal like that they don't fly off, they perch for a while to let things settle. They eat the bones and all. If it was a squirrel they'd leave the tail, but that's it. An hour or two. I'm sitting at my desk working at my computer, quite possibly a game turn. All I have to do is turn my head and I can see the whole back yard. So out of the corner of my eye I saw a shape swoop down, I turn to look and it's that hawk on the ground with a mouse in its talons. I reach for my camera and it's already up on that telephone pole. Then it's perching for quite some time, I'm able to see it and it me the whole while. I keep working on that turn and take a pic every so often. So he lands in the tree and is looking down at me for 15 minutes or so. I think I had to get out of my chair and kneel to get the angle for that last shot.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 9:02:18 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 9:24:22 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/2/2021 4:21:11 PM   
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We watch the raptors, the raptors watch us!

I have had owls and hawks use my balcony railing for its overlook of the area, but they do peek inside too. One owl took a very large dump on my balcony railing (picture below shows most of it, some fell off on the balcony floor). Crows nesting on the roof also swoop by the balcony and look in the window frequently, especially if the TV is on. I think they like the music on the streaming channel I have on when I am at my computer.

BTW Geoff - your hawks are reaping the benefits of seed on the ground - that brings in mice as well as birds. Easy pickings for a raptor!

The big dump ... probably a meal of rabbit.






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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/4/2021 8:27:09 PM   
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South Africa crocodiles: Hunt on after mass escape in Western Cape

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/5/2021 8:41:40 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/5/2021 8:50:31 PM   
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Moving right along...

South Africa crocodiles: Hunt on after mass escape in Western Cape

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56285651





Has anyone seen a handbag or a pair of boots walk by?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/6/2021 12:49:43 AM   
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The [golf] club has put their snappy pets on Facebook and is searching for names for the reptiles.




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/6/2021 12:54:40 AM   
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Crocodiles? They're not dangerous. In Oz we have much smaller dangerous things that you mightn't see and walk around. We keep crocs as pets Click quote for link:


The [golf] club has put their snappy pets on Facebook and is searching for names for the reptiles.




I suggest "Contented Croc". Usually so after helping a golfer achieve his handicap ...

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/2/2021 9:17:11 PM   
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But this is why I looked it up. I received these, for some reason, I just can't seem to remember why, I am hesitant to consume them . . .




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/2/2021 9:19:13 PM   
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This was way back on page 6!

But this is why I looked it up. I received these, for some reason, I just can't seem to remember why, I am hesitant to consume them . . .





A closer look.

Mint chocolate? Why . . .




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/2/2021 9:24:11 PM   
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This was way back on page 6!

But this is why I looked it up. I received these, for some reason, I just can't seem to remember why, I am hesitant to consume them . . .



A closer look.

Mint chocolate? Why . . .




It's OK - it says plant based product so they only processed vegans ...




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/3/2021 6:41:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		No comment. I have no comment other than no comment. Sad. Perhaps sad is another comment than my no comment comment? Thus making the comment no comment into a false comment? Anyway. I have no comment to this. Although seems I have written a lot of words that I suppose means something more than no comment...



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/3/2021 6:42:40 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/3/2021 8:37:05 PM   
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So, let me get this straight. You have no comment?

That was his comment, yes. Which means "no comment" is a lie, which means it really is a comment, which means he meant to mislead us by not commenting with a comment, which means ...




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/5/2021 2:34:43 AM   
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This was way back on page 6!
But this is why I looked it up. I received these, for some reason, I just can't seem to remember why, I am hesitant to consume them . . .




When I looked at this pic my brain read "Mint Cheeseburger" yuck!
I figured that I might as well take the hint my mind was giving me...
so I went to Wendy's and got a baconator double.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/5/2021 3:02:00 AM   
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So, let me get this straight. You have no comment?

That was his comment, yes. Which means "no comment" is a lie, which means it really is a comment, which means he meant to mislead us by not commenting with a comment, which means ...




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/5/2021 11:16:39 AM   
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This was way back on page 6!
But this is why I looked it up. I received these, for some reason, I just can't seem to remember why, I am hesitant to consume them . . .




When I looked at this pic my brain read "Mint Cheeseburger" yuck!
I figured that I might as well take the hint my mind was giving me...
so I went to Wendy's and got a baconator double.


What an excellent idea!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/5/2021 12:05:47 PM   
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So, let me get this straight. You have no comment?

That was his comment, yes. Which means "no comment" is a lie, which means it really is a comment, which means he meant to mislead us by not commenting with a comment, which means ...




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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w772GXG5LnE

Led Zeppelin – Dazed And Confused

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/5/2021 12:37:21 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/6/2021 1:33:01 AM   
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so I went to Wendy's and got a baconator double.


My cardiologist just cringed.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/6/2021 1:52:10 AM   
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so I went to Wendy's and got a baconator double.


My cardiologist just cringed.


My local provider is a vegan.

But think of the name, then think of a movie title . . .

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