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Post by auntieannie on May 10, 2013 11:39:22 GMT 2
oh, and I need to tell pero we've got blackbirds here, too! amongst the nice songbirds. but gosh it's cold again here. I don't know how our feathered friends take to this spring that feels more like winter all over.
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Post by Peromyscus on May 10, 2013 12:22:49 GMT 2
I think the feathered friends are going to fly Virgin Atlantic and head over here.
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Post by auntieannie on May 10, 2013 14:15:01 GMT 2
there are direct flights from Bristol if I am not mistaken. To Newark.
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Post by mapletree3 on May 10, 2013 16:42:11 GMT 2
Why are pero's pot stars green?
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Post by Peromyscus on May 10, 2013 17:11:05 GMT 2
Mapes, a couple of weeks ago in a thread I said I wanted to be like Annie when I was all growed up. So the mods made my post count equal to hers. So that means I am finally all growed up.  Annie, that's great that you don't have to fly out of London to get to ... Newark. |
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Post by tinier_dragon on May 10, 2013 17:36:36 GMT 2
hi.
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Post by Peromyscus on May 10, 2013 17:37:19 GMT 2
Hi. How are you doing, dragon?
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Post by auntieannie on May 10, 2013 18:21:40 GMT 2
hey, dragonette! long time no read! how are you?
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on May 11, 2013 0:39:50 GMT 2
hello all, pero has green stars! is he turning into an out-of-the-closet vegan?
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Post by Peromyscus on May 11, 2013 1:27:41 GMT 2
I think I need to eat chicken or some other dinosaur.
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Post by Scrubb on May 11, 2013 2:31:00 GMT 2
A hermit thrush flew into our yard today!
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Post by Scrubb on May 11, 2013 4:53:11 GMT 2
And we just saw our first yellow-rumped warbler of the spring (almost a month later than usual):  |
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Post by shrjeff on May 11, 2013 6:01:40 GMT 2
last weekend we went to the hula valley hoping to see some stragglers migrating... saw a couple of flocks of storks on their winding ascent up a current... and in the marsh we saw a marsh hen...
(we also went to a wine tasting, burp...)
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Post by Peromyscus on May 11, 2013 10:45:45 GMT 2
last weekend we went to the hula valley hoping to see some stragglers migrating... saw a couple of flocks of storks on their winding ascent up a current... and in the marsh we saw a marsh hen... (we also went to a wine tasting, burp...) Jeff, what is a marsh hen? This? Yesterday morning a Swainson's Thrush was singing in the tree over the driveway. . I couldn't see it, but it was really close and the song was gorgeous. I snuck away from work and spent the morning watching birds. A distant Cape May Warbler www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cape_May_Warbler/id was perhaps the bird of the morning. |
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Post by shrjeff on May 11, 2013 10:50:29 GMT 2
yep... can't remember the difference between swamp and marsh anymore - and to make it even more confusing (to me) the staff called it a moorhen  it's a waterbird usually seen floating but it was on the bank of the swamp and was most noticeable for its red beak and chicken feet... |
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Post by Peromyscus on May 11, 2013 11:05:32 GMT 2
yep... can't remember the difference between swamp and marsh anymore - and to make it even more confusing (to me) the staff called it a moorhen it's a waterbird usually seen floating but it was on the bank of the swamp and was most noticeable for its red beak and chicken feet... Ah, Moorhen is a different species ("Moorhens, sometimes called marsh hens or river chickens") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorhen than the Purple Swamphen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Swamphen which is in the video I just linked to. Moorhen is a corruption of Meerhen, meer being an English word for lake or a similar body of water. The Nerd Table is living up to its name, isn't it? Plus it's becoming the Bird Table at the moment. In the USA, swamp signifies a wetland dominated by woody plants, while a marsh is dominated by non-woody plants like reeds, rushes (genus Juncus which should become junco in Spanish), sedges, etc. |
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Post by shrjeff on May 11, 2013 12:46:46 GMT 2
i've been to the lake district and stayed at windermere...
dunno which one, they both seem to have red beaks and chickenish feet...
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Post by Peromyscus on May 11, 2013 23:55:27 GMT 2
You're right about that, shrjeff. But one has long red legs and a blue body and the other one has shorter legs and is browner.
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on May 12, 2013 0:23:55 GMT 2
Oy! this thread has turned into The Bird Table! |
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Post by tinier_dragon on May 12, 2013 3:33:43 GMT 2
yes. i don't know what to say about birds. okay, here's my story: once in college in a natural history class we were out with our binoculars and my teacher asked us to identify a bird. i looked and then exclaimed, "that's a CUTE bird!" it was, too.
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on May 12, 2013 3:57:47 GMT 2
LOL TD!!!! that is a good definition by my standards!
how is the cuteness doing?
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Post by tinier_dragon on May 12, 2013 4:07:05 GMT 2
hi, itsa! the cuteness is great. he went to bed a little late tonight. he was swimming up a storm today. i made an apple pie today with no sugar, so that's exciting. how are you?
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on May 12, 2013 4:24:02 GMT 2
I am sleepless, all is "normal" which is the best it can be here.
I am glad the cuteness is fine and sleeping! send him a hug from down here.
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Post by tlefty on May 12, 2013 16:55:33 GMT 2
I have been released by my kidnappers. I am unharmed but my laptop shat itself rather spectacularly and I am using a borrowed one until I am not so destitute and can actually replace mine.
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on May 12, 2013 17:27:52 GMT 2
Hola leftita!!! besides the laptop, is everything ok at your end?
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Post by auntieannie on May 12, 2013 20:37:33 GMT 2
poor lefty's laptop! and I second what itsa asks at 2192.
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Post by tinier_dragon on May 13, 2013 1:36:22 GMT 2
hello again. obviously it's fish taco night. but i'm so tired i dunno if i can gather the strength...
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Post by mapletree3 on May 14, 2013 22:34:28 GMT 2
Hello bird and other nerds. I was at a great gathering of bird nerds at the International Migratory Bird Day celebrations at the Calgary Bird Sanctuary last weekend. There were lots of birds and free chocolate cupcakes.
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Post by Peromyscus on May 15, 2013 0:44:50 GMT 2
I saw on the equivalent to this thread on the other place that lefty had to borrow laptop to post a day or two ago. I hope she gets a new one soon.
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Post by auntieannie on May 15, 2013 13:45:35 GMT 2
free chocolate cupcakes, wow! heaven!
back from the big smoke and feeling the pre-exam stress...
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