Can anyone tell me..

Turquoise. "Teal" is unusual as a colour word in the UK too.

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To me... Teal is in the blue-green spectrum. Not as bright as an aquamarine type blue-green. If you were to take the "watery" aquamarine and make it a jewel tone -- to me that is teal. In the family with US Surgical scrubs (what operating room staff wear)- if that is any help.

I know with computers - you computer may display colors slightly differently than mine... but here are a few links that should give you the general idea:

Each of these comes across "slightly different" -- but should put you on the right track. Hope it helps!

Kate in MI

I searched the web for you to find the colour teal as a visual example. Try this site:

That always puzzled me, too! I regard it now as a Peacock Blue, which is a sort of deep, rich turquoise; neither blue nor green, but a beautiful mixture of the two. If you look up Google Images, for a picture of a Teal (duck), you might find the colour in its plumage. In fact I think I'll go and check that straight away!!

PS: just looked, and the first page has loads of examples of the colour. In fact, the duck looks very sombre compared with the colour examples. Enjoy looking! . In message , FiederEls in NL writes

Teal is much like periwinkle in that it's hard to say. If you're looking at green, blue green and blue, teal is going to be leaning off toward the green. By 'duck', I think the dictionary may be thinking of the Mallard's head. It might only be the male Mallard, and some hummingbirds sport some teal coloring. Come watch the hummers with me and have some coffee. Polly

I LOVE HUMMINGBIRDS!!! A bit early for them here in MI -- but soon I hope! I will put my feeders out when I return from vacation (next week... WOOHOO!!) I have to be here to bring them in at night -- otherwise my friendly bandits (raccoons) empty them!

Kate in MI

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hummers with me and

Raccoons are such rascals. We have friends who put a lovely little pool in their shade garden. It's about the size of a bath tub, bricked, spilling water and wispy ferns. They thought it would be a nice spot for pretty fish. Wrong. They say that instead of their plans, it's become a raccoon sushi bar. Polly

"Kate G." wrote

Haven't been lucky enough to see any hummers yet, not even the scouts. We get plenty of them here during the summer. They're pretty smart and no doubt sense that it is still too cold at night (still at or below freezing) The days have been fairly warm for this time of the year however (50ish). Not bad for 8500' in April, though we do need moisture. I fear it may be another bad year for fires, and we are surrounded by National Forest. Back to work and then to the sewing room! Linda

re: raccoons in the pond

I, too, have a small man made pond in the back yard, but I already knew that if I put fish in it the raccoons and Herons would eat them. My friends lost many very expensive Koi this way. I just let the frogs have the pond to themselves. Usually early in the season one of them lays eggs, then we have a few weeks of pollywogs and tadpoles, then tons of little frogs. They're almost as much fun to watch as fish. I think the racoons still drink out if it though, because the stones that are around the edge sometimes wind up in the water. Whenever we fish frogs out of the chlorinated swimming pool, we place them in the pool to rinse their little eyes out, most of them decide to stay in the pond permanently. It's still a little too soon up here to turn the pond on, maybe in another month.

Denise

At least we didn't talk about Butterfly's scars that you can't see. Polly

"FiederEls in NL" >

I have a great pond in my back yard. I kept goldfish year round with a heater. Then we got the "Big Dog". And she's a water dog. Soon I found her standing in the pond, pulling out the water lilies and terrorizing the fishies. The little girls use it for a water fountain.

Had to relocate the fishies to the strip pit across the road. Didn't bother with plants last year.

Cindy

We've talked about Hummers a couple of times now and not once has anyone mentioned how VICIOUS they are to each other! My Hummers are all bullies and try to keep each other away from the feeders. I have resorted to putting up several on different sides of the house.

Cindy

I don't have feeders. I try to keep something they like flowering so they are drawn to the area but naturally. Lots of good eats here so they are well behaved (or at least what I can see). I think they are sort of territorial though so they are going to seem like greedy little things.

I have a f> We've talked about Hummers a couple of times now and not once has anyone

I saw a hummer just yesterday and meant to pick up some of the hummer food at the store this morning. I'm back from the store and forgot the hummer food :-( It will have to wait until tomorrow.

Well our pond has been visited by herons, snakes, turtles, possums and deer. Also, 3 different types of frogs I spotted just this morning. Over the years we have lost a few fish, but I enjoy all the critters that we've seen. Our pond is large enough that the fish can get away from racoons. We have had hawk come to bath in our pond - that was exciting! Our yard is part of the Backyard Wildlife Habitat organized by the National Wildlife Federation. I have the pond on my website, but I haven't added any crafts or quilts - I give them away to quickly.

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When the hummers are migrating they will share a feeder but once they've settled in they are very protective of their feeders and flower gardens. We have a large patch of beebalm and the hummer female will dive at any others that dare to enter her territory. She sits in a nearby tree and guards "her" yard.

Jan, attachments sent to this group are a no-no. They make some computers writhe in protest.