[intinst]

Maybe we need to split off a Cattle thread...

 

[Anju]

Maybe we need to split off a Cattle thread...

doubt if we would get much traffic

 

[Brenda Carroll]

Just change the topic to Birds, Birds, Birds, Bulls, Bulls, Bulls.
deb

No, no, no, please don't do that. I beg forgiveness!

 

[drenee]

LOL.  I bet we'd get a lot of views out of simple curiosity. 
deb

 

[intinst]

No, no, no, please don't do that. I beg forgiveness!

Birds, Bulls, Birds, Bulls, Birds, Bulls better?

 

[Anju]

Well we do have a lot of bull

Spoiler

caka

around here

 

[drenee]

Dona, too funny and too true.
deb

 

[BrassMan]

OK; back to birds. I love these guys. They're so curious and quirky. I've heard they can be trained to come up for hamburger, but since we have cats that probably wouldn't work.

 

[Dori]

You guyz are too funny.  like in dodo bird.

I thought I was going to have to spin off a clown thread for a few posts the other day.

 

[BrassMan]

Brassman, couldn't resist showing off one of my former neighbor's bulls. This is a Watusi in case you haven't seen them before. Awesome.

My apologies to all the bird people. I promise not to do it again.

Holy bull horns, Batman! That thing could gore an eighteen wheeler!

 

[luvmy4brats]

We checked the robin's nest today and discovered there are 4 eggs in it!  

Loving all the pictures. Dori, congrats! Love the balloon.


I changed the title of the thread..so nobody is off topic. 

 

[Dori]

Had to wait to stain the fence for this family. It is lunchtime apparently.

coming up next is the soft landing of the first flight

 

[Dori]

 

[Carol Hanrahan]

So what do you put in your hummingbird feeders?  Store bought, make your own, clear, colored?
I boil 3 cups of water, add 1 cup of sugar. No color added.
Anyone else?

 

[Dori]

Anything that I read says to use 1/4 cup of sugar per cup of water.  I have used 1/3 cup for a long time, but lately am using the 1/4 cup and see no decline in the traffic.

I boil the water and add the sugar.  Clean and fill the feeder when the nectar cools.

Most so called experts say no color.  I used to add red food color but quit that last summer.

 

[Angela]

This mama duck laid 13 eggs underneath the cypress tree next to our boathouse in the spring of 2003. They began hatching on May 16 just before one of the worst thunderstorms I had ever seen at our lake house. These pictures were taken just before the rain began.

The next morning we only counted 10 ducklings... 3 didn't survive the storms during the night.

Later that afternoon, she had them out for a walk in the neighbor's yard! I never could seem to get them all in the picture at the same time. There were always a couple of ducklings that would wander off and she kept calling them back, just to have another one or two begin to wander off!

About 24 hours after they began hatching, she had them all in the water for the first time.

 

[Meredith Sinclair]

Anyone mind PMing me as to how to post pics, I am sure I saw a thread somewhere but con not find it anymore. I love birds, and have ducks by my home as well as hummingbirds and woodpeckers and kildeer among others. My family love to sit on the patio and watch the hummingbirds and I got pics, I just can't get the blasted thing to work.

Thanks

 

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[Carol Hanrahan]

Dori,
I also heard 1/4 cup sugar to water ratio.  somehow I got on the 1/3 cup sugar to 1 cup water ratio, and the hummingbirds just flock to my feeders.  I have also seen a honeybee land right on the little hole, and I have seen other birds trying to drink from it - although I don't know how successfully.
One day, the hummingbird kept squeaking, landing on the feeder, sticking his beak in for a second, then flying off squeaking loudly.  I went to the feeder and jiggled it a little - there was a large air bubble preventing him from getting any of the food.  After I jiggled the air bubble out, he came and ate quietly!

 

[Meredith Sinclair]

Dori,
I also heard 1/4 cup sugar to water ratio. somehow I got on the 1/3 cup sugar to 1 cup water ratio, and the hummingbirds just flock to my feeders. I have also seen a honeybee land right on the little hole, and I have seen other birds trying to drink from it - although I don't know how successfully.
One day, the hummingbird kept squeaking, landing on the feeder, sticking his beak in for a second, then flying off squeaking loudly. I went to the feeder and jiggled it a little - there was a large air bubble preventing him from getting any of the food. After I jiggled the air bubble out, he came and ate quietly!

Well, he got your attention didn't he? I have a Ruby named Rufus who controls our feeders. He was gone for about a week after Ike hit and knocked his tree onto our house! I thought we lost him but the whole family came back and we were quite pleased.