We started something today. It probed like a pit, and is located right off an old sidewalk. We got a test hole down to about 2 feet. It's a mix of hard clay, ash and OLD glass/stoneware pieces. We're also finding a good many square nails, but no stone or brick liner yet. It's either down deeper, or it's a barrel liner, or it's just a small ash pit. We'll see tomorrow! I did find one little damaged 1860s bottle, so that was encouraging. ~Jim
We had a California Acorn Woodpecker that would fly over and wait for me to toss a peanut into the air so he could catch it. If I wasn't payin' attention to him he would land on my head. Wild birds are really characters.
I used to have 2 pet crows, I found them on the ground in a park, they fell from a nest. If I didn't take them dogs would have got them. They where NUTZ Ozzy & Joe where there names. Hey we know a Joe, will the real Joe The crow please stand up hahaha! I raised them and let them go, they stayed around for a long time. sometime they would fly down to me when I got home from work, all I had to do was sing Fairies wear boots by Ozzy Ozborn hahaha and and they would fly in.thay liked that song I guess.[/align] [/align]They never came back one day, I guess they found mates or what ever and where gone, It was cool while it lasted, I was going to buy some African crows once 800 bucks apiece, I never did. I still may one day, they are fun birds the smartest of all birds except for the raven. I have some pix of them, and the crazy stuff they do. Rick[/align] [/align]Me holding Ozzy & Joe sunning him self on my leg[/align] [/align]
Very cool. I would have never guessed you were a bird lover. Never had a crow but had a pet Magpie in Colorado. Did have an assortment of wild birds for pets when I was kid. English Sparrows, Cedar waxwings and a few Blue Jays. Alot of kid kept Bluejays when I was a kid. I have a bud that has a pair he keeps in his living room. Bluejays and Sparrows can sure be charictures but I think Joey the talking Magpie had them beat. Joey was all he could say clearly but he tried really hard to say other things.
Yea as a kids my brothers and I all ways had wild animals for pets you name it we had it. We raised 3 cardinals from babies to full grown birds,thay where really tame had them for years until one day the cat got in and that was that.[/align] [/align]There where some kids in the neighborhood who would kill baby birds, knock the nests down and we would save them take them home and raise them. Those kids where my friends, thay grew up half normal hahaha[/align] [/align]Why wouldn't you have never thought I was a bird lover? Oh my weird demeaniner hahaha got ya.[8D][/align]
Hey Rick....don't forget to give your chickadees some water. I put out a large plate with a small edge. It is cool to watch them drink. THEY LOVE IT! Now I just hafta' figure out what to do about the water when it is 20 below.....