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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    JBii wrote:
    last night at bedtime with windows open I heard the lonesome call of neighborhood owl
    so peaceful to fall asleep to
    and last night I heard him too when I couldn't sleep ;)
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
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    Passing through now and hanging about, the Red Tailed Hawk is making the squirrels cry and the song birds hide.
    The chipmunks are nervous and unable to fill up there winter homes with sunflower seeds.
    Their call is unique and lovely but bloodcurdling for the fore mentioned folk. I hope he moves on soon.
    I too feel the threat in the woods.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,392
    Here are a few shots of a mother loon protecting her nest that I took earlier this summer.

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    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Jason P wrote:
    Here are a few shots of a mother loon protecting her nest that I took earlier this summer.

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    Oh my that is beautiful! look at her markings!
    Thank you for posting so cool :D
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    I love birds....great pictures everybody


    although it makes me kind of sad....I miss my pet cockatiel that passed away back in April...had him for 24 years :(
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,092
    dunkman wrote:
    birds come just below dogs in my list of "pointless over-rated animals"

    what use is a fucking pigeon?

    They can get you snacks and stuff.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,092
    I love birds....great pictures everybody


    although it makes me kind of sad....I miss my pet cockatiel that passed away back in April...had him for 24 years :(
    that's a long time! Sorry 'bout that.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,234
    Lizard wrote:
    I love birds....great pictures everybody


    although it makes me kind of sad....I miss my pet cockatiel that passed away back in April...had him for 24 years :(
    that's a long time! Sorry 'bout that.
    Thanks. We didn't think he would live that long. We expected around 10 years or so. We originally got him when I was 3 and he was supposed to be my sister's pet, but I liked him better, so I took him after college. Had him "trained" to the point that he only liked me :D...but also tolerated my wife unless she was vacuuming around his cage :lol: He was a good friend.

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    and he played basketball!
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Lizard wrote:
    I love birds....great pictures everybody


    although it makes me kind of sad....I miss my pet cockatiel that passed away back in April...had him for 24 years :(
    that's a long time! Sorry 'bout that.
    Thanks. We didn't think he would live that long. We expected around 10 years or so. We originally got him when I was 3 and he was supposed to be my sister's pet, but I liked him better, so I took him after college. Had him "trained" to the point that he only liked me :D...but also tolerated my wife unless she was vacuuming around his cage :lol: He was a good friend.

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    and he played basketball!

    I'm so sorry for your loss...Oh and played basketball priceless.
    It will be tough when Pumpkin passes he is 18.
    My daughter took Pumpkin when she moved out. She's had him since she was six.
    He can sing Winnie the Pooh, do the microwave beeps, Yell for our dog who has since passed "Scout!"
    and say hi. He likes me but I'm the only other person besides Savannah. He really would swoop at my son! :lol:
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    He's learned to let sleeping dogs lie! :D
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUTuWfm7oA
    tonite
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    chuck-will's-widow... a nocturnal friend :D
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    great pictures everyone
    pandora, your bird with your dogs is awesome
    do the dogs mind him/her?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    chadwick wrote:
    great pictures everyone
    pandora, your bird with your dogs is awesome
    do the dogs mind him/her?
    Thanks Chad
    My grand doggies, Faith and Dottie are good with Pumpkin. He has free reign in Savannah's house
    but usually just hangs out on his cage...out of reach.
    He's there with the dogs like that cause Sava is with them.
    Otherwise Faith would probably chase him around!
    She grew up with him so its a game to her but Pumpkin takes it seriously!
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    pandora wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    great pictures everyone
    pandora, your bird with your dogs is awesome
    do the dogs mind him/her?
    Thanks Chad
    My grand doggies, Faith and Dottie are good with Pumpkin. He has free reign in Savannah's house
    but usually just hangs out on his cage...out of reach.
    He's there with the dogs like that cause Sava is with them.
    Otherwise Faith would probably chase him around!
    She grew up with him so its a game to her but Pumpkin takes it seriously!
    warm-hearted lady = pandora.
    thank you.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    chadwick wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    great pictures everyone
    pandora, your bird with your dogs is awesome
    do the dogs mind him/her?
    Thanks Chad
    My grand doggies, Faith and Dottie are good with Pumpkin. He has free reign in Savannah's house
    but usually just hangs out on his cage...out of reach.
    He's there with the dogs like that cause Sava is with them.
    Otherwise Faith would probably chase him around!
    She grew up with him so its a game to her but Pumpkin takes it seriously!
    warm-hearted lady = pandora.
    thank you.
    chadwick= amazing :D
    and thank you
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Near where my boy lives is a small pond that attracts the migrating birds. The other day there were hundreds of Black Vultures laying over. Filling the dying trees like this picture. A foreboding ominous site.

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    Not attractive birds until they take flight and soar and circle in the sky. Many sharing the same space with their beautiful two toned wing span. Their grace in flight captivating and delightful. :D
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Magnuson wrote:


    That was Cool!!! tiny little guy.
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Magnuson wrote:
    oh that made me cry... what a sweet gentle young man to care for that little dickens.
    Thanks for posting... that was beautiful
    I wonder if the little guy will want to stay with him always
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Magnuson wrote:


    That was Cool!!! tiny little guy.

    yeah, I'm glad that he was able to hand feed him. I tried with a budgie from the clinic....and, well...uhhh....birds are NOT easy to hand feed. Though I think a hummingbird would be a different story.

    Pandi, I do think the little guy will stay with that young man...little bird has probably imprinted on him. My cat that I hand fed is basically my little shadow, freaks out if I go to the bathroom and close the door :lol:
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Spring is upon us here in the South :D

    Much activity in the yard.....

    The male American Goldfinch is putting on his best colors to please his lady,
    bright beautiful yellow, the Nyjer seed sock covered with them, as it spins.

    The Red Wing Blackbird is no longer doing their throaty cluck and have filled the air with their beautiful 2 tone trill marking the beginning of mating season and travel home.

    The Cardinals also... the males singing sweetly their long fancy whistle dressed in bright red to impress.

    And the Robins are filling the front yards as they flock together, ready for flight, the journey north.

    I have all my life but most especially now found great comfort in the constant of natures clock