Bigbird

[RICKJJ59W]

I love to feed the animals,I treat them like one of the family.
Move over! Mary!!

 

[passthebottle]

[][][] Hey Rick I see that you are on top of the food chain, like the "Lion King"

 

[JOETHECROW]

Nice pix! Hey Joe, is that bird in the last pic green? What is it? -Julie

Julie,...Yes, it's a cardinal, but the drab (compared to the male) female, when the underfeathers are exposed like that, they have sort of a "camo" effect,..and look greenish,....which is probably a good thing, because when there's a hawk around, it usually zeros in on the bright red males...[8|] Your pics are pretty cool too.

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: RICKJJ59W

I love to feed the animals,I treat them like one of the family.
Move over! Mary!!

Hey Rick,...Watch out for that big buck behind you! [sm=lol.gif] [sm=rolleyes.gif]

 

[RED Matthews]

Hello and thank you passthebottle; The FORUM today seems to be showing a lot of humor and fun. Good relaxation. I had to tell you that when we are in NY for the summer I put out about eight bird feeders and two squirrel feeders that have a little round table with on an outward triangular board with a vertical spike up through the center. Out from the table there is a two vertical short sticks and a little bench seat. After you put a previous years corn cob with the kernels still on it, down on the spike. the squirrels set on the seat and eat the corn.

I also put out a couple antique glass fly traps with a dead minnow or two and water in the trap and a piece of corncob for a cork. It keeps the fly population down by a few thousand dead fly's each summer. RED Matthews

 

[towhead]

Thanks Passthebottle and Joe, I don't think I've seen a Cardinal around here.

Ha Ha Rick!

Red, I'd like to see a pic of the squirrels at the table!

A have a couple squirrels too. Sometimes they will be rolling around the deck fighting like a couple of crazed wrestlers.[] And then, I usually only have one....the other moves across town or something -Julie

 

[JOETHECROW]

Julie,...Here's some male cardinals on the feeder this morning.

 

[JOETHECROW]

It was minus 17 degrees this morning,...They're all puffed up to stay warm.

 

[towhead]

Wow awesome Joe. No, I definitely don't have those birds. And, looks like you have the cold weather now! Was -40 here with wind chill.[] -Julie

 

[SAbottles]

-40 !! Julie, here in Cape Town those are figures I can't even wrap my brains around !!

Joe, those Cardinals are really lovely, but if they're feeling the cold like that, tell them to fly out here & I'll save them some space on the Yucca tree !