Re: OT: Beautiful days...

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comREMOVE (Valerie) :

]Really?! That makes sense with this little guy!

well, that's what he swears. and he swears it a lot!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

LOL! Yes! That's what the little stinker does! He's tried it on doves, and most times they don't even realize he's on them he's so light. :-) Website:

I bet he does, LOL! I love watching the birds, too!

Carol in SLC New pic (9/5):

can't you hear him singing, "I like BIG BUTTS and I cannot lie....."

LOL

Cheri (Bubbee to Emily and Nathan)

OMG! ROFLMAO!

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I live in South Florida (Palm Beach area). Very tropical climate, so that's probably why all these exotics are around. THe parakeet and cockatiel are probably birds that were pets, but got loose. But the town I am in is a bird sanctuary, so if you harm a bird you can get into trouble. We've seen orioles, finches, black birds (some kind at least), morning doves, ring necked doves, cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers (who I didn't know liked seed! But apparently they do), parrots, the parakeet and the cockatiel. Probably more before I started trying to find out what kinds were actually coming. Oh and the 747 pigeons that come in with a dive bomb landing. LOL! Where I lived before we had a huge heron that would come and catch lizards in our plants, he was really cool to watch. He would wiggle his entire neck back and forth when he was hunting.

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Lovely story. I had a very rare visitor to our garden the other day. A grey squirrel feeding off the bird nuts. I got some good photographs of it. I know I should not encourage it because they are classed as vermin. Since their introduction into this country they have almost wiped the population of red squirrels out. It is only the second one I have seen on our garden in all the 45 years we have been living here. Shirley

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Oh Shirley! How cool! I don't know what kind of squirrels we have here, but I get a few on occasion eating along with the birds (they love the sunflower seeds in the mix). They don't stay long though because squirrels are the dog's arch-enemy and she goes ballistic when she see's them through the window, on the fence eyeing the feeder. I love those little critters just as much as the birds (we had a "pet" squirrel once...his mom died and we nursed him until he was old enough to be on his own).

Valerie

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