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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 4:11:03 AM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 4:13:13 AM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 4:17:21 AM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 4:17:54 AM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 8:26:02 AM   
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Migration changes. We have a very common bird called the American robin which is a thrush that is mainly known for pulling earthworms out of the ground. Twenty years ago or so you would never see one here in Winter but that's no longer true thanks to global warming. In the past 30 or 40 years we've gone South two agriculture zones, from zone 4 to zone 6. Those zones help describe what types of crops will do well. Robins are territorial so I think maybe the birds we see in the Winter are some of the same individuals that were here in the Summer, but without banding them I can't be sure. I believe most robins migrate to some extent so the ones we see in the Winter may have come from way North and stopped their migration here. Today was a bad day for robins, though. If I manage to get a pic of one in the snow I'll post it. Anyways, besides worms robins will take berries but they aren't adept at landing and perching on bushes in order to get them. They mostly stay on the ground or perch on fences or large branches. There are plenty of holly berries about they could feed on if they could reach them but I've never actually seen a robin eat a holly berry. Squirrels and mockingbirds take those and the mockingbirds often drive the squirrels away from the holly bushes or try to. During the Summer I've seen robins taking my blackberries but they stand on the ground under low hanging ones and leap up in the air, usually without benefit of wing power, and grab at them. But besides the snow today the ground has been frozen for some weeks and I'm really not sure how the robins get by in these conditions.


Thank you for telling.

Awesome pictures.

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 8:58:36 AM   
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Why isn't the thread title "This Thread is for the Birds"?

The title is something of an homage to Geoff Lambert (The Gorn) whose Things to Ponder thread started the bird pictures idea but also had some content that the moderators didn't like.

BBfanboy said it perfectly.

Additionally, I hoped that this thread might include all (off topic) things people was thinking on, or laughing at, and so on. As long as the forum rules are observed, of course.

< Message edited by Orm -- 2/5/2022 8:59:35 AM >

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 12:38:10 PM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 12:38:41 PM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 12:43:38 PM   
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Is Sean Young still young? Is she artficial now?

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 6:32:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a blue jay just leaving a feeder with a peanut. They're here year round. Similar to starlings they are amazing mimics but also have a unique repertoire of their own.




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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 6:34:55 PM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 9:26:03 PM   
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....my sister said he was feeding the cat.

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 11:18:46 PM   
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As they are king parrots a mate gave his local pair the nicknames Charles and Camilla, so I call these two Felipe and Letizia.




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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 11:24:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		From this morning: the photo that almost was: in the background is an egret (maybe 3 feet tall when stretched out) and in the foreground should have been a rufus hummingbird (3 inches tall), but the H-bird flew away just as I lifted my phone. Egrets are uncommon around here, but we have hummingbirds year-round.





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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 11:26:18 PM   
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From this morning: the photo that almost was: in the background is an egret (maybe 3 feet tall when stretched out) and in the foreground should have been a rufus hummingbird (3 inches tall), but the H-bird flew away just as I lifted my phone. Egrets are uncommon around here, but we have hummingbirds year-round.





To your great egret, the hummingbird flew away?

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/5/2022 11:31:52 PM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/6/2022 3:47:58 AM   
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My dad used to feed the various birds in the area {including pretty and mean Blue Jays} by placing birdseed on the railing of his deck....

....my sister said he was feeding the cat.

I'm mostly feeding the hawks that way.

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/6/2022 10:09:28 AM   
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A pair of Aussie beauties.
As they are king parrots a mate gave his local pair the nicknames Charles and Camilla, so I call these two Felipe and Letizia.

And such stunning beauties.

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/6/2022 10:11:19 AM   
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My dad used to feed the various birds in the area {including pretty and mean Blue Jays} by placing birdseed on the railing of his deck....

....my sister said he was feeding the cat.

I'm mostly feeding the hawks that way.

Hawks are also birds...

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/7/2022 2:07:44 AM   
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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/7/2022 8:01:21 PM   
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Something I have been pondering on for some time.

This isn't a bird, Orm. It's a pre-bird.


PRE-BIRD??!!

Gave me a great laugh. Nice job!

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RE: OT: Something to ponder on? - 2/7/2022 9:20:19 PM   
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Is this a bird? Not my pic and it's on Crete.




A Chinese duck. Part of their efforts to make nations dependent on them...

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