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To: Crocodile who wrote (62517)	5/4/2002 8:16:20 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'd read about the problems the young turtles have with the lights some year back. Some times ducks will land on wet lit roads thinking that it's moon light reflecting off of a lake or stream. Our Hummers are a few weeks late returning this year. I've seen some Mockingbirds and the Bluebird boxes are all being used. I've got a small striped Sparrow that's been banging on my window for a month. He flies up and down the window all day long banging it with his wings. Odd.

To: Crocodile who wrote (62517)	5/8/2002 10:03:17 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Our mourning doves must have built their nest somewhere near the house and laid their eggs. Every time Myers goes out, they divebomb him and scream threatening birdie things at him. He seems to enjoy it and will lie on the deck on his back with his paws waving as they fly right over his tummy. We have a very thick honeysuckle hedge that runs between the house and the poolhouse, and I suspect the nest may be in there. We haven't seen any hummingbirds yet either, although Dan has dutifully boiled his sugar water and filled the new hummingbird feeder that CW gave him for Christmas. There is a large frog riding around the pool right now on the polaris tubing. Myers lies at the edge of the pool waiting for him to sweep by, but so far he hasn't gotten close enough to get a good shot at him. It's a very big frog and I think Myers would back off fast if this guy jumped in his face. I love this time of year when we all are still optimistic that Texas heat somehow won't arrive this year and we won't all shrivel up with dehydration. Texas summers are like childbirth-- you forget how awful they are during the mild winters when you northerners are snowed in and we Texans are still wearing shorts and hauling out the sweaters for the cold fronts.