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Post by allezcuisine on Aug 28, 2006 17:35:01 GMT -5
Elvis-Chichi the dove...(?) (Whatever the majority says )
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Post by Arrianna on Aug 29, 2006 9:22:20 GMT -5
No Chichi son/daughter of Elvis.
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Post by mickster on Aug 29, 2006 10:29:14 GMT -5
Ya (Elvis got a new mate and flew away, sob) Chichi lives in the tree next to the apple tree. I saw it this morning. The way it chirps, its name really suits it.
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Post by allezcuisine on Aug 29, 2006 12:00:38 GMT -5
Oooh, OK.
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Post by mickster on Oct 24, 2006 20:05:42 GMT -5
Good news! I mowed the front lawn today, after not doing it for a month and a half (can you say grass a foot tall? : , and I examined the pile of gray feathers. They didn't belong to a dove, [glow=red,2,300]YAY[/glow]. The feathers were from a quail (quail have polka dots around their necks and doves have the polka dots on their wings) [glow=red,2,300]YAY [/glow]again. I have a million quail here but only two doves, Chichi, and I've named the female Chacha (hope you like it Arrianna). I thought is was strange because I never heard Chichi mourning like doves do when they've lost their mate. But he was the only one I'd ever see sitting in the small pine tree, until today. About 4:30 this evening I heard the large bluejay squaking so I looked out the window to see why. There are two of them, siblings. They were born in the holly tree outside my window. One is much larger than the other and is very domineering. It flew to the small pine tree just making noise, it likes to be king of the yard. It landed in the tree and continued, [glow=red,2,300]BAK! BAK! BAK![/glow] It's BAK is worse than it's bite. I looked away for an instant then back because it got quiet. The jay was gone but there were two smaller birds in the tree. I knew one was Chichi, just by the way he perches on the branch, but I thought the other was a woodpecker who has been hanging around as of late. I wanted to see it so I got my binoculars for a look. It was another dove. Actually, the one Chichi had been with for a couple months. [glow=red,2,300]YAY,[/glow] [glow=red,2,300]she is alive.[/glow] All's well that ends well.
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Post by Arrianna on Oct 24, 2006 21:54:31 GMT -5
lol! I love it. I also love good news like that.
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Post by allezcuisine on Oct 25, 2006 11:51:04 GMT -5
Great news!
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Post by Man Alive! on Oct 26, 2006 16:03:07 GMT -5
Great news!
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Post by herringchoker on Oct 28, 2006 18:42:33 GMT -5
Yay!
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Post by mickster on Nov 14, 2006 14:10:33 GMT -5
:oThis morning I was looking out the window, watching Chichi and Chacha eating apples up in the tree when my eye caught sight of movement under the Juniper tree. It looked like a Robin but was much darker. I got the binocs and checked the bird out. It was beautiful, black head, black and white stripped wings, had red on it's side tummy and white underbelly. I was in awe and watched it for several minutes, then had to check it out on the internet to see what it was as I've never seen anything like it before. Check it out, I had a very rare sighting of a male Spotted Towhee [glow=red,2,300]www.wildbirds.com/identify_feederbirds [/glow]
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Post by Man Alive! on Nov 14, 2006 15:56:30 GMT -5
Neat Mick! Sounds like a very pretty bird, and very unusual, too. The link won't work for me, though.
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Post by mickster on Nov 14, 2006 17:31:25 GMT -5
MA, go to [glow=red,2,300]www.wildbirds.com [/glow]and on the left side of the page that opens, scroll down until you see a site called feeder and yard birds and click on that. A page listing birds on the left will open. Scroll down to the towhee, you got to see this guy. The picture doesn't do it justice. But it's cool.
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Post by herringchoker on Nov 14, 2006 20:09:03 GMT -5
Pretty nifty, Mick! My parents have a feeder outside one of the kitchen windows which attracts a variety of birds. Their biggest problem is keeping the squirrels out of the feeder. Mind you, watching the squirrel try to get in to the feeder is plenty entertaining at times....
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Post by mickster on Nov 14, 2006 20:28:46 GMT -5
I hear that, HC. The squirrels do some pretty amazing things to get at the seed in the bird feeders. Once they totally chewed up a large wooden feeder I had hanging from the car port. It was 8 feet off the ground hanging by a rope and they got to it. I had even greased the rope. I put a feeder on top of a metal pole some 7 feet high, away from trees and greased the pole and they still got up there, but it was funny watching them trying to climb the pole. They'd get up about three feet and slide down.
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Post by allezcuisine on Nov 15, 2006 13:24:30 GMT -5
That must have been an interesting site, Mick.
I also have a feeder outside, and I kid you not, I have to fill it up almost every day. There are a ton of birds who visit the feeder each day.
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