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Anything interesting happen yesterday or today? Yesterday, two visitors to the pond opposite - a Belted kingfisher and a Green heron

Posted - August 22, 2020

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    . . . ?

      August 23, 2020 5:26 AM MDT
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  • 537
    Wow! We only have one kind of heron in Britain, and it's grey in colour. We have kingfishers too but they seem to prefer rivers to standing water.
      August 23, 2020 5:31 AM MDT
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  • 343
    I entirely agree with you reverend. I should like a chance to glimpse a Stork - some were reintroduced to Britain (so I heard) after a gap of several centuries. Those Great bustards must be a sight worth seeing too (another re-introduction).
    The Belted kingfisher here is much larger than the cute little European Kingfisher. The bird (I assume the same one) has been hanging round the pond here for three days now. Nice to have wildlife on your doorstep (so to speak). 
      August 23, 2020 8:50 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    Nope...boring, as usual.
      August 23, 2020 7:38 AM MDT
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  • 343
    Really, how awful 99 - not even a solitary knifing or shooting - I had assumed you WERE in America, was I wrong, I thought that stuff happened there all the time. Ha ha.
      August 23, 2020 8:53 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    Sure. It happens so often it's boring!! 




      August 23, 2020 8:56 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    Actually, our murder rate went up by 50%...but in seedier areas of the city.
      August 24, 2020 3:52 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    Bunnies, chipmunks, squirrels, and a cicada. Also, a vulture consuming a deceased squirrel. 

    Pretty typical, aside from the vulture. This post was edited by SavvyAnsley at August 24, 2020 4:24 PM MDT
      August 23, 2020 8:59 PM MDT
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  • 343
    Ah a vulture doing his job eh. Some years ago in India there was started a program of setting out poisonous bait to eliminate certain predators that were becoming more of a danger to flocks. What happened was that people became sick from disease spread from the corpses of animals dead from natural attrition. The many vultures that usually cleaned up the carrion were succumbing to the poison too, and this left a sudden imbalance in nature; nobody left to do the cleanup of natural deaths. When the truth became clear, the poisoning scheme was stopped, everything gradually returned to normal, and a lesson had been learned. 
      August 23, 2020 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    That's exactly what I say about vultures, they're doing their job! I always take advantage of the opportunity to point out how our well-being is dependent upon so much more than ourselves, especially when ignorant people say they HATE certain creatures. 

    Humans demonstrate repeatedly that we're really bad at trying to "control" nature. There is so much imbalance because of human interventions. 
      August 23, 2020 9:19 PM MDT
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  • 343
    I can't argue with that! Ignorant people seem to want to kill things - even when they have no idea what they are or how they live their lives, or what part they play in our own well being.
      August 23, 2020 9:25 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    My wife chased away our resident hawk munching on a chipmunk on our front lawn. I wanted to choke her.
      August 24, 2020 3:54 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    I didn't know bunnies ate dead squirrels.
      August 24, 2020 3:53 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    What? 

    Vultures eat dead squirrels. 

    Are you messing with me because I'm high? :P
      August 24, 2020 4:05 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    You wrote it as if all those creatures eat dead squirrels.
      August 24, 2020 4:10 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    I realized that after I posted my reply to you. Then I forgot to reply again that I get it now. 

    What am I talking about?...

    :P
      August 24, 2020 4:14 PM MDT
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  • 10037
    I fixed it! :)
      August 24, 2020 4:17 PM MDT
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  • 10451
    I watched a spider cut a leaf out of it's web then repair the web I found that pretty insteresting. We have Blue heron around here pretty impressive birds. Cheers!
      August 23, 2020 9:19 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    It seems blue herons are everywhere. They are quite common here.
      August 24, 2020 3:55 PM MDT
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