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Lancecrossfire
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07-13-2000

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 11:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
VERY cute!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 4:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, man are they cute!! Yankee, are you taking the pictures or is your husband still up to his Jujuwork? Excellent photograph, and I think the little ones are learning to like it. Look how they're posing for you. Little sweeties!!!

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actually, I'm taking these photos :-)

I was using my super-zoom so as not to bother them. I was crossing the lagoon on the way home from the gym and happened upon them sleeping here. Mom was in the water just beside them. I ran back to the house and hoped when I came back with my camera they'd still be there -- and they were! I like the guy on the left with his beak open :-)

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, I love your photos! Those ducklings are so sweet :-)

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 9:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They are so cute! I need to go take pics of my ducks and the nutria.

Biscottiii
Member

05-29-2004

Friday, September 03, 2004 - 11:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lovely pics Yankee! It's almost like we can reach out and touch a duckling, they're so clear. Thanks!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Colossus has two bird feeders - one out front which is for the sparrows, and one out back by the deck which is for the finches. Now, truly I can do without the sparrows shitting on my car. But the finches, OMG are they cute!! Tiny, sweet little faces with even tinier little beaks. They can seriously get that thistle-feeder swinging, too - they take turns perching and flying back and forth between the feeder and his Chinese redwood. BBuser, how's the baby coming along? Anymore fun behavior out of him? And Yankee, will your mallards stay there year 'round, or will they travel for the winter? I stopped feeding mine about a month ago so they'd migrate (as they should, it's too cold around here in the winter for them, but they'd stay if we kept feeding them).

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG, I am in the middle of my own freaking Alfred Hitchcock movie!!! Rememember those cute little finches I was talking about yesterday? Well, four of them are in my house right now and they can't figure out how to get out. Colossus is at the office and racing home to take care of them, but in the meantime they're banging up against the windows (not hard, though), trying to figure out how to get out.

I mean, how much bad luck does this portend? One bird in the house is supposed to mean a death will happen to someone near, what the hell does four finches on the transoms mean?

And if you think I'm kidding about the Alfred Hitchcock thing, I closed the deck door where the feeder is to keep the rest of them out, then opened the front door hoping they'd find their way out there (this is where the sparrows ordinarily are), and a flock of finches came swooping down trying to get in the front door. I know who's going to die, and it's going to be me - I will have been shat to death by four of the most innocent looking sweeties you ever saw. You know that scene in "High Anxiety" where the birds chase Mel into the outhouse then hang their asses over the top and crap all over him? That's me. That is going to be me. Man did they sucker me in!

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 8:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROTFLMAO!!! GAL, there is never a dull moment. You are so funny!

I never heard those old sayings, but I can tell you right now--what you've got on your hands is so much better than having a bat in your house. Something I've been through twice!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh man Herckle - if there was a bat in my house ya'll wouldn't hear about it for 72 hours at least - that's how long an involuntarily mental commitment lasts. I'll take the finches any day. OK, Colossus carried all four out of the house in his hands and let them loose, and another just flew in the house. LOLOL. He says it's not bad luck, they're just thanking us for the thistle. We'll see.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hee hee. That should have been captured for America's Funniest Home Videos! I can see it now. Though, I've seen how tall Colossus is--so am picturing this giant arm swooping through the air and catching them like a gentle giant--like some of the characters in that Medusa movie with that little mechanical owl (and the Gods watching Jason? from above . . . I hope you know what I'm talking about)! LOL.

Well, whew on the bad luck thing. I like the way Colossus thinks.

(No, I'm not off the edge. Anyway, you started it with the Hitchcock reference!)

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<gets up off the floor from laughing>

Yay Colossus!



Mybbusername
Member

08-22-2002

Monday, October 11, 2004 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi GAL. Thanks for asking about my little guy, he is outstanding!! In addition to his "batlike" abilities, powers of escape, and doggie mind control, he is also an accomplished gymnist!! If I bend over and look at him upside down, he will hang upside down from whatever he is hanging on and "quakerlaugh" at me. (Dont ask how I discovered this).

He still does not talk but he also does not bark or talk back like some members of my family-so I am okay with it!

He does give kisses, especially if I leave the room or dare to think that the cage door should be shut-

And occasionally he finds himself just too weak to lift his little feet from my finger back to the perch...but not to worry it is a treatable condition and a few minutes (or much longer) of sweet talk and cuddles seem to offer a cure. Usually.

I have always had pets, and always enjoyed a great affection and bond with them, but there is something so special about my baby...he has a sense of humor, he cops attitudes, he has an urgency to understand things...he is an amazing little guy, and I love him profoundly!!

Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mybbusername: I'm so glad your bird is doing so well. Sounds like he has the run of the house! Does he sing or talk or make such noises? I just love the sounds birds make.

I had never heard about birds getting in the house being a sign of bad luck. But just this past week I did install a pair of chimney covers because at least 5 birds have gotten into my basement since I've lived here. Since the birds would always fly up and out of reach into the rafters, I found the best thing to do was open the vents in my glass block windows, remove the vent screens and then wait. Some birds are definitely smarter than others in figuring out how to escape. But now neither I nor the birds need worry about that happening again.

P.S. I like bats too!

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, Clamity, I just love bats. That is just about my favorite at the zoo.

Cinnamongirl
Member

01-10-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pretty smart bird....

http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Friday, February 11, 2005 - 12:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fantastic!

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, February 11, 2005 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cinnamon, I've sent the link scurrying around the world. I do not understand how you can teach a bird to talk and not 'parrot' back what you are saying too. Why didn't Einstein say what she said? He only responded to her questions. Tis a puzzlement!

Citruscitygal
Member

08-07-2003

Friday, February 11, 2005 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amazing Bird

You really have to see this!

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lame! They've trimmed the video of Einstien. It's not as long as it was before.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, BB - looking for an update on your cute little boy!!

Well, spring is here a little early on the lake. I went out to get my first bag of corn because Hans and Gertrude are back and hanging around (without the boyfriend this time). Lo and behold, I step on the back deck and shake the jug of corn and at least 15 pairs of mallards came swooping in from all directions. I didn't have time to try to sort out who was who (many of them I won't recognize because they were still juvenile size last fall), but I did see Wargod sticking out in the group with her wild comb still very much making the fashion statement. She was such a good first time mom last year, I can't wait to see the little ones she brings up this year.

Weird thing - we have alot of big birds out here, herons and whatnot (we've seen the herons already this year), but none of them fly at night. Well, around 11 last night Colossus and I were heading upstairs to bed and we saw a huge bird swoop by our windows. So we turned off the lights and went to take a look, and sure enough there was a MASSIVE owl parked in our tree. I mean this thing was as big as a medium sized dog. Colossus ran to get his camera, and I just stood there oohing and ahhing because I've never seen a live owl, in the wild or in a zoo. After about 15 minutes he swooped off - massive wingspan! So I'm thrilled, and I tell Colossus I hope he comes back and lives on the lake, and Colossus says no I don't because that bird wouldn't just eat my ducklings, he'd eat my full-grown mallards and the cats that chase them, and then sit up in my tree and stare at me while he picks his teeth with their bones!!

So on second thought I'm going to ask for a gun and some buckshot in case that SOB ever darkens my doorstep again. I don't know who he thinks he's dealing with, but I could get real handy with a slingshot if pressed. No one messes with my babies!!

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 10:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Gal, you crack me up! I love hearing all about your duckies and don't want that mean ole big owl to get them! I want to see pics!!!

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Friday, March 04, 2005 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
...but baby owlets are cute and need to eat.

Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Friday, March 04, 2005 - 2:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Owls are beautiful (and important), aren't they, Ophiliasgrandma? Some nights I can hear one - a real owl, not a dove, lol - hooting outside my bedroom window. I love that sound even though I know it must be scary for any little critters about! In college I got to pet a snow owl - his feathers were the softest things I've ever felt.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cala, owls are one of the most important animals we have for keeping the rodent population in line.