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Post by evaryman on Oct 29, 2013 12:25:09 GMT -6
The male downey wood pecker came to the suet feeder (just outside the kitchen window) while we were playing a game of cards and looked in at us, so I guess he's over being shy. Also a titmouse came to the suet this morning, and we spotted a large red headed wood pecker on the screen house this morning. We have a busy back yard today:-)
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Post by super on Oct 29, 2013 15:13:13 GMT -6
We had red headed woodpeckers 20 years ago...now all we have are red belied wood peckers.
My in-laws have flying squirrels down south of here and they're (all) nuts!
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Post by evaryman on Oct 29, 2013 15:23:04 GMT -6
Mr.R. just put out a new squirrel toy that our niece and nephew picked up for us, it's a corn feeder that bounces when the squirrels jump on it to get the corn. It had to be 'primed' with dollops of peanut butter, so tomorrow should be a very interesting morning:) I think we had a yellow bellied woodpecker a couple of years ago, and another woodpecker-looking bird that I think was a flicker. Not sure on that one, but the birds are sure turning up here today. The titmouse is such a lovely and elegant creature, and also very inquisitive and not easily intimidated. The entire population has cleared out now, as Mr.R. is cleaning gutters, I'd better act like I'm doing something useful, time to check on the soup.
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Post by dive61364 on Oct 29, 2013 17:27:25 GMT -6
on the way to Bloomington I seen a few snow geese on the ponds a long route 39
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Post by super on Oct 29, 2013 18:37:26 GMT -6
Was there any snO nearby?
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Post by evaryman on Oct 29, 2013 20:09:46 GMT -6
MY husbands Auntie has mentioned that when she visits her husbands grave, in the cemetery on the west side, that she's seen an eagle in the trees near there. We spent sometime just sitting out there to try and get a glimpse of it, a couple of years ago, but to no avail. We may have to go over and have another look around soon.
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Post by dive61364 on Oct 29, 2013 21:34:49 GMT -6
I see them at Riverview cemetery in the winter evaryman
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Post by super on Oct 30, 2013 5:33:31 GMT -6
Had another Hawk on my front feeder yesterday, I think he got a Sparrow? Looked like a dark grey color, almost a steel blue color?
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Post by dive61364 on Oct 30, 2013 7:29:24 GMT -6
probably a coopers hawk. I have seen a few around here. nextofkin has one that feeds on the morning doves at his feeder.
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Post by super on Oct 30, 2013 8:18:04 GMT -6
All the other birds left the area lol
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Post by dumdave on Oct 30, 2013 8:59:42 GMT -6
I saw a flock of geese north of KKK last week.
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Post by dive61364 on Oct 30, 2013 18:29:57 GMT -6
I just seen a duck swim by my house. the street is a swimming pool.
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Post by evaryman on Oct 31, 2013 9:22:10 GMT -6
Hah, good one! Last night we were on the west side of Ottawa, where we've spent a great many years, and Mr. R was almost ready to get out and 'clear the street gutters' as the streets were too full to pass in some places. Clearing the gutters was a job we did regularly when we lived on the west side, where he had grown up. ("we" is more like my 2 to his 20 times, when he'd be at work I'd have to do it but I only did it a few times:) Anyway, back to my tale, I asked how he'd known what we should do, way back when we were young and living on the West side,he said, "well growing up there, we'd go out and block the gutters so we could float our toy boats." I can imagine, the old gals like myself, huffing and puffing when the street became a river. Had they known that a troop of little boys had done it, I fear there would have been hell to pay. So, now I wonder, where were the young husbands and 'filling in for my husband who's on afternoon shift' wives, last night? When the streets fill up, the basements are next. I suppose situations have changed over the last 25 years, and possibly the city sent out crews late in the night to sweep leaves away from the gutters, a job we just always did, and I don't remember ever thinking it wasn't our job to do. We all had to pay for it to be done, one way or another either our taxes to pay for the workers to come out and do it, or me in Mr.R's rubbers sloshing around and having a blast, while my children hopped up and down on our porch laughing as they watched me. I've seen my son, clearing the gutters on his street, here in Streator, so at least in his case the example stuck, and when he's at work, I don't know what happens, because Mrs.Son works too:-)
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Post by super on Oct 31, 2013 11:08:25 GMT -6
Snow birds out there now under the feeders getting wet seed I bet? No cold air bottled up in Canada right now so I guess winter is on hold for a while? Birds are very busy though like it's January!
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Post by rukidding (towns local troll) on Nov 5, 2013 16:16:10 GMT -6
Have any of You got an OVER abundance of Robins right now around Your Houses?
If I didn't know any better I'd swear it was Spring with all of Them around.
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