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  1. #561
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    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    there used to be a most marvelous hummingbird migration map, but they stopped updating it because of some Google problem or something...One year I got a dot for my location (earliest noted h-bird near me) which was a major high in my otherwise boring life. :http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html

    looks like it may not be secure anymore, so i wouldn't click on stuff, but you can see the format...

  2. #562
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    Feb 2007
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    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil View Post
    Well. You had it coming.
    (hanging my head) yes, yes I did. I did stop using red food coloring years ago that I was ignorantly adding to it.

  3. #563
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    I was standing at my kitchen sink Sunday, looking out the window at my backyard. All of a sudden, a hawk came swooping down from the very back of my yard STRAIGHT AT ME. I think it realized there was a window at the last minute b/c it stopped and flapped at me a second or two, not two feet from my face, then flew off to a distant tree. I don't know if it actually came in contact with the window or not b/c I screamed and couldn't have heard it if it did. SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME! I have never had one do that and hope it doesn't happen again. My neighbors' chickens were running around their yard, so I warned them there was a hawk nearby. We have lots of them, and I have had one swoop in front of me in the driveway, but never had one dive bomb my window like that.

  4. #564
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    Nov 2007
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    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    I was standing at my kitchen sink Sunday, looking out the window at my backyard. All of a sudden, a hawk came swooping down from the very back of my yard STRAIGHT AT ME. I think it realized there was a window at the last minute b/c it stopped and flapped at me a second or two, not two feet from my face, then flew off to a distant tree. I don't know if it actually came in contact with the window or not b/c I screamed and couldn't have heard it if it did. SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME! I have never had one do that and hope it doesn't happen again. My neighbors' chickens were running around their yard, so I warned them there was a hawk nearby. We have lots of them, and I have had one swoop in front of me in the driveway, but never had one dive bomb my window like that.
    we sometimes can discern clear wing imprints on our windows from bird forays, some few of which are unfortunately fatal.

  5. #565
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    we sometimes can discern clear wing imprints on our windows from bird forays, some few of which are unfortunately fatal.
    Oh, sure. I have had the heartbreak of finding a dead cardinal outside my storm door and a smear of red feathers on the glass. But for this hawk to pick out my relatively small kitchen window to dive bomb from hundreds of feet away was just unexpected. I have no idea what it saw/thought to make it do that. I don't think it saw me until it was right there, which is why it pulled up at the last second.

  6. #566
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    Nov 2007
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    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    Oh, sure. I have had the heartbreak of finding a dead cardinal outside my storm door and a smear of red feathers on the glass. But for this hawk to pick out my relatively small kitchen window to dive bomb from hundreds of feet away was just unexpected. I have no idea what it saw/thought to make it do that. I don't think it saw me until it was right there, which is why it pulled up at the last second.
    Perhaps your personal plumage fooled him into thinking you're a tasty morsel?

  7. #567
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    Feb 2007
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    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    Perhaps your personal plumage fooled him into thinking you're a tasty morsel?
    So many ways to answer that. Let's just go with, Yes, I am! But it could not have possibly known that!

  8. #568
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    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    So many ways to answer that. Let's just go with, Yes, I am! But it could not have possibly known that!
    Hawks have great eyesight, which works in your favor.

  9. #569
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    Feb 2018
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    Dur'm
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    Hawks have great eyesight, which works in your favor.
    But ultimately, he pulled up because he saw your brass knuckles.

  10. #570
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    Feb 2007
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    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by Phredd3 View Post
    But ultimately, he pulled up because he saw your brass knuckles.
    I realize you're trying to get on my good side. No brass knuckles. Hands covered in dish soap. Crazy woman screaming. Maybe that's what scared him off.

  11. #571
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    Outside Philly
    The Canada Geese have started scratching that Zugunruhe itch. I’ve notice migrations the past week or so. Must be cold up north!

  12. #572
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    Nov 2007
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    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    The Canada Geese have started scratching that Zugunruhe itch. I’ve notice migrations the past week or so. Must be cold up north!
    interesting...we haven't seen them yet, but it was 39 degrees this morning, and when they start they come by the thousands..

  13. #573
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    Feb 2007
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    Washington, DC area
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    The Canada Geese have started scratching that Zugunruhe itch. I’ve notice migrations the past week or so. Must be cold up north!
    I wish. Ours just hang around all year. Leaving a mess everywhere. Like that weird in-law that just won’t leave.

    -jk

  14. #574
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    Jan 2010
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    Quote Originally Posted by -jk View Post
    I wish. Ours just hang around all year. Leaving a mess everywhere. Like that weird in-law that just won’t leave.

    -jk
    There are a few Canada subspecies. Some migrate, some don’t.

  15. #575
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    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    On this morning's walk I saw the first migrating geese of the season.
    Yes, if the geese have a nice golf course or office park to hang in, why go South?

    I probably mentioned it before, but at an ACC tournament some years ago, we were at an office park to buy some sandwiches...office parks have nice paths and nice ponds, then wonder why the geese crap all over them...so I met a woman who had a border collie and an radio controlled little boat, she called her business Goose Busters, and she drove around all day having the dog swim at the geese and chase them away....but every once in a while there's an alpha goose who won't leave, then she brings out the radio boat to scare them off.

  16. #576
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    Jan 2010
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    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    On this morning's walk I saw the first migrating geese of the season.
    Yes, if the geese have a nice golf course or office park to hang in, why go South?

    I probably mentioned it before, but at an ACC tournament some years ago, we were at an office park to buy some sandwiches...office parks have nice paths and nice ponds, then wonder why the geese crap all over them...so I met a woman who had a border collie and an radio controlled little boat, she called her business Goose Busters, and she drove around all day having the dog swim at the geese and chase them away...but every once in a while there's an alpha goose who won't leave, then she brings out the radio boat to scare them off.
    Have her address? I’d just like to send her some $$ for a business well-named?

  17. #577
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    Nov 2007
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    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Have her address? I’d just like to send her some $$ for a business well-named?
    http://www.goosebusters2.com/about_us.html

    there ya go...they don't seem to mention the radio controlled boat, but I know they have it...

  18. #578
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    Birds declared extinct. My mom still swears she saw an ivory-billed a few years ago in her back yard.

    https://www.wral.com/us-says-ivory-b...inct/19900409/

  19. #579
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    Feb 2007
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    Steamboat Springs, CO
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    Birds declared extinct. My mom still swears she saw an ivory-billed a few years ago in her back yard.

    https://www.wral.com/us-says-ivory-b...inct/19900409/
    I remember the Ivory-billed woodpecker "bubble" in 2005 and 2006. Oh, man! Birds were reported from Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia -- after a fairly credible video by an outdoorsman in Arkansas was revealed and confirmed by Cornell Ornithology. But no one ever found a nest hole, which would have allowed definitive observation, photos, etc. Hmmmm... Then, because of concern about the quantity of reports of a bird that had not had a confirmed sighting since 1944, organizers began sending observers out in teams of two people instead of just individuals. Spottings fell off dramatically. Then the guys at the Cape May Bird Observatory re-analyzed the initial video and concluded that the white patches on the wings were really from the underwing of the bird, which is consistent with the almost-as-large Pileated Woodpecker, an impressive sight in MidAtlandtic and Southern forests.

    Boom and then bust in Ivory-billed Woodpecker searches.

    There is a larger lesson to be learned from the Ivory-billed Woodpecker outcry -- because most of the reports came from very good birders with many hundreds if not thousands of birds on their lifelists.
    Sage Grouse

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  20. #580
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Rougemont Nebulae
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Have her address? I’d just like to send her some $$ for a business well-named?
    Not just her address but her phone number as well because you know who ya gonna call?

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