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20-Apr-23, 08:17:42 AM
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Anything Else / Totally OT / Re: So Tell Us How the Weather Has Affected You and the Critters Around You.....
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on: 10-Jan-14, 09:25:13 PM
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Very vivid report, Kris G! Poor birds.  Bill checked the Bluebird boxes today and it appears all 3 have been used by the birds...good place to keep warm! We're expecting flooding in Genesee County this weekend with the warm-up...Tonawanda Creek runs through Batavia, which caused bad flooding of streets and homes a few weeks ago. Black Creek runs behind our house but we're about 40 feet above it so no flooding will affect us here. I heard about all the bad storms, high winds/waves in the UK...really bad. In Australia, they're suffering with 120+ degree temps. which is killing bats and dropping Kangaroos. Crazy weather! |
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Anything Else / Totally OT / Re: So Tell Us How the Weather Has Affected You and the Critters Around You.....
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on: 09-Jan-14, 12:19:42 PM
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Genesee County (where I live) had a travel ban during the height of the storm so all big trucks were pulled off the Thruway, having to seek a place to park their rigs. The Flying J, a truck stop in Pembroke, and Pembroke HS parking lot soon filled up so Police starting pulling them off the Thruway into Batavia (we live 5 minutes outside the city). Target, Walmart, Home Depot, K-Mart, Tops and Batavia Downs allowed them to use their parking lots and soon they were all full for the duration of the ban. At home, I saw birds struggling to get to our feeder for food, sometimes flying more backwards than forward. We have a privet hedge around our back deck that was packed with small birds hiding from the elements. The larger Mourning Doves always sit on the deck's roof edge during winter months, puffing their bodies way out to maintain warmth but, during the storm, they were all sitting on the deck as close to the hedge as they could get. The next day, Bill filled our feeder and the birds went crazy as they must have been really hungry, quickly emptying the feeder and it was the first time we ever remembered having to fill the feeder twice in one day. Looking out at our 3 Bluebird boxes, which we had prepared for winter visitors last fall by plugging the side vent holes and placing grass in them, we wondered how many birds had sought refuge during the storm in the boxes.
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Member Activities / Vacations and Holidays / Re: Tracking MAK
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on: 08-Jan-14, 10:14:18 PM
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That hay-cutter thing or whatever it is looked really weird and totally scary. Your photos are as much fun as always. I hope it warms up some for all those animals stuck outside.  Never heard the term "meadow muffins" before LOL Dot in PA Dot, I asked my brother-in-law Mike what that scary equipment is called-the one on the left is a brush hog, used for knocking down weeds and stuff in the pastures and the one on the right is a hay rake which puts the cut hay in rows for the baler to come along and make it into bales of hay. I picked up the term "meadow muffins" from my mom who was brought up in the country.  That's just what Bill (who was raised on a farm) said they were when I asked him. He also said that even though he walked on many a "meadow muffin" as a kid, he's never heard the term before!  |
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The nest and chicks have now been removed and transferred to a rehab facility. Another female has been seen around the area so there is speculation there was a territorial fight! Here's a video of the babies being fed by the rehabber.
