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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 6:53 pm
This morning saw pair of Canada geese with three goslings running along behind. Shoot 'em. I love animals and birds, but them things is DIRTY. The stuff they leave behind.... Shoot 'em. We have tons of 'em around here -- not like it's just a few.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 8:50 am
Also yesterday while I was out walking with my iPod nano in my ears (holding the nano in front of me)...ready - aim - fire! Bird crapped right on my nano. Not much on my fingers. Good shot. Good thing I had kleenex in my pocket.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 1:38 pm
Colordeagua, that means good luck, at least in Turkey. But I take it to mean you will have good luck in USA too.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 7:24 am
I'll get my luck some other way! 
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 10:02 am
Colord, Colossus is picking up what you're putting down he despises Canadian geese. Fortunately, we've have much fewer the past year or two because they use dog teams to go up and down our lake scaring them off during nesting season. It really works.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 8:05 am
This is what I walked out my front door to today. We get these huge herons in our lagoon area, fishing the koi (which makes our neighbors very very angry LOL). I say, 'If you don't want the herons to come, don't stock the water with fish.' Anyways, my zoom isn't great and this is the closest I could get:

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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 8:08 am
OK, those are so small you can barely see! LOL. Sorry. In the first one, look at the stones crossing the water. He's near the left. Here is the second one, cropped in even more:

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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 10:14 am
Kool pics Yankee!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 11:33 am
Pretty nice to have them right outside your door!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 11:42 am
Hey, he looks just like Ol' Blue, our trusty great blue heron who's lived here on the lake for years. They are SO much fun to watch stalking fish, and it's breathtaking to see them fly overhead. Great pictures, Yank. Thanks.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 11:47 am
I like them. I think they're beautiful. This one was huge, though you can't tell by the far-away pics. My neighbors hate them, though, and will chase them away because they eat the koi. But I already expressed my feelings about that above LOL.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 11:54 pm
Speaking of Koi, of course they can be quite expensive. I remember way back in the sixties when the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center was opened in San Francisco (we were going to Cal at the time, over in Berkeley). They had ponds with koi in them. Well the local homeless people would fish them out and eat them. I think they gave up on the koi and used less expensive gold fish. I don't know if those were fished or not, but they cost less. By the way, did any of you see The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill documentary that was on PBS recently? It was quite wonderful.. followed this man, Mark Bittner, who, for years, interacted with one of the wild flocks of parrots in that area of San Francisco. I've ordered the DVD and plan to buy his book. This is Mark's site http://www.markbittner.net/index.html and there is other info on the PBS site under Independent Lens.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 7:28 am
I first read his book several years ago and then saw the movie. Very moving stuff!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 4:57 pm
I love that he met his match in the woman who did the documentary.. he had said he wouldn't cut his hair until he found a mate and at the end.. she was cutting his hair He is feeding again, but only once a day and not even every day. And he's not as intimately involved with the parrots as he once was.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 7:06 pm
Well the miserableness (is that a word?) of this year on the lake cannot be over-exaggerated. We had mutliple gorgeous clutches of ducklings early in the year, and they quickly died out somehow or another. Then we had two hens with new clutches, who (with Puss's help one time) lost their entire second batches of ducklings. There's still time for new ducklings this year, but shit . . . we had two juvenile-age ducklings and they are now gone. There hasn't been a single gosling on the lake this year (the dogs must be doing their jobs, but still . . . not even one?) Depressing as all get-out. And I have NOT seen the hawks this year, at least not picking off my ducklings like last year.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 5:33 am
GAL, that's why I no longer post when we get them in our lagoon. I can't watch anymore.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 9:27 am
Bigdog and I met Mark Bittner. We were hiking up Telegraph Hill (okay, walking up the stairs), and we came across the parrots, and then we stopped and talked to a man who seemed to know a lot about them. Turned out to be Mark Bittner. That would have been about 1997 or so.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 10:33 am
Juju, you such a treehugger. Kewl story.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 9:29 pm
LOL.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2007 - 6:36 am
I'm on their emailing list. She sends out something every few months.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 8:54 am
10 new cheepies as of this morning.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 9:00 am
Awwww ... little yellow fuzzballs, just love'em.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 12:31 pm
Happy birthday, Cheepies! I'm crossing my fingers for them and you, Yankee.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 3:44 pm
This little cheepie wandered onto my entrance patio area. His mom was squawking up a storm. I also see two crows nearby. Is it bad that I want to throw rocks at them?

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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 3:46 pm
And here's Mommy:
So much for me not posting about them.
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