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  • msg
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    @voltz, captured by neighbor kid's drone early this afternoon.
    Details are sketchy, something about a cold solder joint and cheap wire?

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  • msg
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    Doc! Holy Moly! That is GORGEOUS!!!
    Like the way you let the sun(rise?) light up the tips of the trees.
    Love the warm tones...
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    meanwhile, in Northern New England...
    we might not live in the most beautiful place on Earth...
    but it's effing close...
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    msg wrote: »
    @voltz, captured by neighbor kid's drone early this afternoon.
    Details are sketchy, something about a cold solder joint and cheap wire?

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    Okay so that is how I lost most of my hair.
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  • EndersShadow
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    @mhardy6647

    I blame you for the 200+ dollars we just spent on bird food and other bird related supplies lol.

    Humming birds, finches, blujays and butterflies here we come :smile:
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • txcoastal1
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    EndersShadow wrote: »
    @mhardy6647

    I blame you for the 200+ dollars we just spent on bird food and other bird related supplies lol.

    Humming birds, finches, blujays and butterflies here we come :smile:

    You forgot the birdshitte
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  • EndersShadow
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    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    @mhardy6647

    I blame you for the 200+ dollars we just spent on bird food and other bird related supplies lol.

    Humming birds, finches, blujays and butterflies here we come :smile:

    You forgot the birdshitte

    Eh I got 3 dogs... its all the same lol.

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  • EndersShadow
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    @mhardy6647

    Your handywork... This JUST the backyard.. we have two more in the front lol.

    4 regular feeders, a finch feeder (drying from its yearly cleaning), one tray for Blue Jays (my request), Hummingbird feeder, and a butterfly feeder.

    We have one more to buy and hang off the shed but we may just do suet loaves...

    Out front we have a tray of mealworms and another regular feeder.

    We bought a 25 bag of seed and it ONLY filled the backyard once lol....

    Gonna have to have stuff sent by the truckload as I promise 90% of it will be gone by tomorrow afternoon.

    Any tips on attracting hummingbirds, Blue jays or finches appreciated.

    Butterfly

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    Hummingbirg

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    Regular and Finch in main part of yard

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    Blue Jay

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    Regular by shed

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  • mhardy6647
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    Yup, all of that looks good. We go through a lot of $eed, too, 'specially in the wintertime.

    Your hummer feeder will attract hummingbirds; they're pretty amazing -- they find the feeders. They really don't need any other prompting, as far as I can tell.
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    Only one species east of the Mississippi; numerous species in the Western US, though.

    Our first ones for the year showed up here about a week ago. There are essentially no flowers blooming at our house when they show up(!).
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  • mhardy6647
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    Blue Jays will eat pretty much anything :)

    Finches of all types will eat the usual seeds, too -- one thing all finches (gold, purple, house, etc.) enjoy and appreciate is so-called "thistle seed" (the commercial product is actually a seed called niger or nyjer, which is like thistle seed but won't grow thistles all over your yard!). Thistle seed and a thistle feeder is a good add-on for finches.

    We feed mostly an admixture of black oil sunflower seed and hulled sunflower seed in our other feeders. The latter is nice in that it leaves no mess, but it can get gunky in feeders (especially in wet weather) and is pretty expensive.

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  • EndersShadow
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    Yeah we have a 4 lb bag of thistle for the finch feeder once it dries. We were also told Blue jays ESPECIALY love whole peanuts for some reason lol. No idea why but we will see.
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • mhardy6647
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    They do like peanuts -- although... so do squirrels :neutral:

    Maybe we should start a 'for the birds' thread? ;)
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  • txcoastal1
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    Say what????

    **** Ward, Town of Rideau Lakes (Ontario)
    Buttertubs Drive, Nanaimo (British Columbia)
    Dingle Bingle Hill Terrace, Nanaimo (British Columbia)
    Jingle Pot Road, Nanaimo (British Columbia)
    Ragged **** Road, Yellowknife (North West Territories)
    Rue Schmuck, Shefford (Quebec)
    Merrymeeting Road, St. ...
    Quidi Vidi Road, St.

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahaspler/street-names-in-canada-are-weird-and-thats-ok?utm_term=.duQ25DOm1#.xlEL2G9VZ

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  • Gatecrasher
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  • mhardy6647
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    ^ That's a poignant image.
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  • txcoastal1
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    Looks like Jesse has a room with a view
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  • Gatecrasher
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    It looks like he's been taken out of the general population at his place of "residence".
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  • F1nut
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    That's your future.
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  • mrbiron
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    You two had better not get the picture thread shut down! :/
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • mhardy6647
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    Not to change the subject or anything -- but Marky spent some quality time Saturday afternoon honing his bucket skills.

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    Yes, that is a bucketful of chicken -- umm -- detritus.

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  • mrbiron
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    You and your words....Had to look up "detritus" as that is yet another new one for me.
    Do you have one of thems "word of the day" calendars handy at all times?
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • mhardy6647
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    Only in mah head :#

    Actually, I believe that I learned the word detritus from my tropical fish hobbyist days, from "The Innes Book" (which was sort of the "Whole Earth Catalog" for tropical fish keeping, in those long-ago times). The other term I remember from that book is mulm. That's the kind of brownish crud that collects at the bottom of a fish tank, atop the gravel. It's a pretty nasty amalgam of detritus.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mulm

    Noun
    mulm (uncountable)
    The sludge that collects at the bottom of an aquarium, consisting of fish excrement, decaying plant matter, and other assorted detritus.

    Can't make this stuff up!
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  • txcoastal1
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    How about a game of scrabble, doc :D:D:D
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  • mhardy6647
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    My wife & children clean my clock at Scrabble.
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    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    How about a game of scrabble, doc :D:D:D

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  • msg
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    I'm gonna start punching people who say "vinyls" in the t'roat.
    I don't even care if it's your grandmother who does it. She's getting throat punched. And pushed down the stairs still strapped into her wheelchair.
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    I luv me sum vinyls.
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    You are dead to me.
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  • mhardy6647
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    speaking of grannies in wheelchairs...

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  • mark090852
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    This was taken near our vacation (soon to be permanent) home outside of Grand Junction, Colorado.

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