SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: LoneClone who wrote (45713)7/26/2007 8:58:45 PM
From: Jamey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78417
 
I look forward to my bird friends showing up each spring. I'm told that they go as far as South America and come to the same yard. What amazing little navigators! I have to tell you about one of the show off Scissortails. He waits for me on the back line next to a wheat field. After singing to me several minutes he suddenly flys several hundred feet high over the field and then acts like he is dead. He falls, spinning out of control with wings dangling and then about 20 or so feet from the ground he recovers and swoops just above the stalks and then comes back to the pole and looks at as if he is saying "look at what I can do!"

The same birds have returned time and again and they are the reason I look forward to them each year. I sometimes throw out seed but they prefer to dig into my wife's rosemoss.

Jim



To: LoneClone who wrote (45713)7/26/2007 11:46:57 PM
From: E. Charters  Respond to of 78417
 
We had a lot of birch trees, so got a lot of birds. I counted 40 species each year. Even Cormorant. That has dwindled to perhaps 10 in the ensuing decades.