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Good grief ! Your mother is not even old yet !! I thought you were going to say 97 or something.

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lucretia borgia
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I said WHEN she got old. My point is, parrots live up to 100 years in captivity and I don't want a flock of parrots pooing everywhere and screaming. I hope my mom lives well into her hundreds with nothing debilitating. She's asked us to move up there to the beach. Her house is high up on stilts and the lower floor is a 3 bedroom apartment with 45 foot decks which face the water. The problem is, where would Mark work out in the hinter of the rich? We'll see. It's so damn cold up there.

Victoria

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Jangchub

Sooo, if she has a large house, put one room aside as an aviary. It could be quite pleasant to sit there every so often with the parrots (given you like parrots as we do) and far easier to clean than random droppings.

I had to get a little prezzie for a party gift the other day and went into a q uirky little shop called the Hen House. Found something appropriate but while I was waiting I spotted a life size, cast iron crow. It was in that position that crows so often take, reaching forward, head slightly down and squawking. It really had my name on it, I rarely buy spontaneously, but he's atop my bookcases now!

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lucretia borgia

However your crow just sits there looking great, doesn't poop, doesn't fly around squawking and doesn't drop feathers all over the house.

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Lucille

Good point ! Too true lol However, if he was to fall off the bookcase on my head, it's gonna hurt. I was thinking of putting him right in the window, I expect the crows outside on the branches would be exercised about that !

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lucretia borgia

That might be a mistake. If one of them fell in love he might just fly into the window and give himself quite a serious headache.

My friend had to cover her very large bathroom window that opened into a privacy garden because cardinals saw themselves in the mirror and kept bumping into the window trying to get to that bird. When one of them actually fell down dead, she put a sheet over the window till they left.

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Lucille

True enough. When I lived downtown some robins nested in the apple tree next door. The male would not stop attacking my garage window, nor my wing mirror on the car door. I noticed the female of the species was more busy sitting on the eggs than attacking windows and mirrors - sigh.

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lucretia borgia

Everyone knows she was required by the robin community to be a stah mom and had no time for foolishness.

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Lucille

I love crows! They are a very auspicious animal...in Buddhism, anyway.

My mom does have an aviary, but the birds still poo and it is not easy to keep up with three large birds. The other problem is her taxes which are 11,000 USD annual, and to heat that house is over 1,000 dollars a month in winter. Not to mention the nor'easters and remnant hurricane's which sweep the east end of Long Island. She is always having shingles replaced and elements replaced because of the salt spray.

It's lovely, but unrealistic for us. We'll see what happens. I've become very spoiled with warm weather year round. I don't know my body can take that cold any more. Victoria

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Jangchub

Conrad, the 35 year old Amazon doesn't just squawk. His voice is so loud that, when he goes whole hog it vibrates my eardrums and actually hurts! And, he'll go on for an hour like that. Every morning and every evening parrots call to their "flock." It's a cacophony of noise you can't imagine.

With Mika, our Hahn's, we each go to a different room at dusk and she calls us and we call her back. Can you imagine two adults doing this silly stuff! It's a good think the neighbors can't see this little ceremony each night. We do it for Mika's mental health. She's still a bird. A very smart little thing, but still has instincts which need ceremony. Victoria

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Jangchub

All birds are wild, including pet birds and they are very protective of their flock. Little Mika has literally attacked Mark for hugging me! And she adores him. One time he insisted on giving her a mirror which she attacked. She doesn't know it's her in the mirror. Birds think it's another bird in their territory. I think parakeets like mirrors, and canaries too. They seem to do well with mirrors, but our girl will attack. Victoria

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Jangchub

I am not surprised, very intelligent birds. The babies from this year will stay with the parents and assist in raising next years family before they move off themselves, that's why you generally see a murder of crows, which is around 13 at any time. In Shad Bay I taught them to be fairly tame and they would approach on the sundeck. I know they learn to talk easily so I always said hello to them hoping one they would be in a tree in a persons garden and say hello lol

My son maintained I was known as the Crow Woman of Shad Bay lol

Yes, I can see that would be lots of work.

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lucretia borgia

FEMA aid? It's not given for free. My mother pays for her FEMA flood insurance. The reason the homes are on stilts is because of the erosion under them! There used to be earth where there is none so stilts went in with the pilings. Her house is semi helped by a very narrow section of Fire Island, which serves as a barrier island, sort of. Hurricane Gloria back in the 80s really eroded a lot of that away. Victoria

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Jangchub

I have found myself drawn to cross-stitch designs with crows recently, especially more primitive designs.

There's a new one out by Cross-Eyed Cricket called "Two Familiars" that's cawing to me, but so far I've managed to abstain. I don't know how long I can hold out:

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Susan Hartman

I like this one:

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the price is right. Victoria

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Jangchub

Now, this is something I still don't understand. When we had our "500 year" flood, meaning once in 500 years will the water get that high, in '97 (when my parents lost their house), FEMA would *not* let anyone rebuild in the same area. So *why* do they let people on the coasts rebuild and rebuild when they know it's going to happen again in a few years?????

Joan

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Joan E.

FEMA is the only place you can buy flood insurance, far as I know. Since you pay for it, I don't know that they have much to say about where you rebuild. I agree with you, but still FEMA doesn't just hand out checks. It's flood insurance. In Texas there is a 100 year flood, not 500. How could anyone know what happened here 500 years ago? I don't think written history of such things exists in the United States. Not for floods, anyway. I could be wrong. Victoria

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Jangchub

ROTFL!!! Yeah, I can imagine it! Years ago, when I first became a birdwatcher, I was taught how to squeak loudly into my fist. This is supposed to be an irresistible magnet for small passerine birds, who will (supposedly) flock to you to find out what the matter is. Well, it works sometimes, sometimes not. However, I do it all the time in the hope I might be able to call a few unusual birds into my yard. I'm quite sure my neighbours think I'm deranged. I'm not... entirely... just hopeful of seeing a new bird. ;->

Round about the same time (as a new birdwatcher), I had seen my very first Powerful Owl. What a bird! He's big enough to carry a fully grown cat to his high perch and he has the most mesmerising stare you could imagine. Gorgeous! Anyway, I heard him in the Widden Valley, a few hours north of N'cle, and in a very isolated spot. Mr Owl began calling at dusk and that wonderful low 'wook WOOK' call was imprinted in me brane forever.

When I returned home and heard the pair at N'cle Uni calling across the couple of miles to our place, *of course* I called back! Every evening, I'd stand on our back step and 'wook WOOK' for ten minutes or so. The owls always returned my calls, but it was the neighbours who got most excited. They confided to Mum that she might need to watch me very closely: I might be taking something unsavoury!

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Trish Brown

Nononononononononono! Y'can't teach a crow to say 'Hello'! It has to be 'Nevermore'. Imagine the reaction if Mr Crow sidled up to a person and quoth 'Nevermore' at them! LOLOLOLOLOLOL! For some weird reason, DD's school is the crow capital of N'cle. There's hundreds of them in and around the grounds and sometimes they hold summit meetings down on the playing fields. It looks like something out of Alfred Hitchcock!

DD asked her English teacher if the class could study 'The Raven' and the kids thought it was a huge joke. Of course, there were subsequently murders of Year Seven kids stalking the crows around the school and going 'Nevermore' all over the place in case one of the crows might catch on. ;->

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Trish Brown

Check out Wee Woo on YouTube:

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have to stay with it. Wee Woo is Mika's favorite and sheimmitates him. So cute. Watch the whole thing, it's only 3 or sominutes. Amazing. There are also talking crows and ravens onYouTube.

Victoria

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Jangchub

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