Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

Up at my last house there was a Scrub Jay who was enthralled by my slide bass, especially when I did feedback with it. He'd sit on the windowsill outside our jam space with his head cocked, just checking it out. Praise Jah that he never learned to mimic that sound and pass it on the the whole Psycho Jay clan. Especially since I only moved across the street!

You wouldn’t want a bird to show up your playing by learning to do it better than you.

 

[Passinwind]

Perhaps not so quirky...

An evolutionary advantage of women having better high frequency hearing is that they can hear a baby crying and respond to their feeding needs. Maybe the chain saw subconsciously triggers that response.

I don't think feeding is necessarily what Mom has in mind for the chainsaw when Junior is acting up.

You wouldn’t want a bird to show up your playing by learning to do it better than you.

Fine by me. I'd just sub out my gigs, pay him peanuts, and pocket the leftover money.

 

[GonePlaid]

I don't think feeding is necessarily what Mom has in mind for the chainsaw when Junior is acting up.

Fine by me. I'd just sub out my gigs, pay him peanuts, and pocket the leftover money.

They do love peanuts.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Fine by me. I'd just sub out my gigs, pay him peanuts, and pocket the leftover money.

A lot of musicians work for peanuts, if that.


I told a girl that my prospects were good
And she said baby, it's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time

Baby you can drive my car
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car
And maybe I'll love you

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah

 

[Passinwind]

They do love peanuts.

Ya think?

 

[Rumblejohn]

Ya think?

Ya think?

We had quite a few scrub jays in our area 40 yrs ago, but development has pretty much eliminated their habitat.

A shame

 

[GonePlaid]

We had quite a few scrub jays in out area 40 yrs ago, but development has pretty much eliminated their habitat.

A shame

Can't 'like' it, but I know what you mean. There are 3 isolated colonies in S.E. FL that I know of and another group between Okeechobee and Sebring.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Maybe Odin is just trying to get your attention. There’s plenty of sticks outdoors that want to be chased.

Oh I know precisely what happened. From my point of view:

Me: I'm taking a nap.
Odin: I want another chewie.
Me: I'm serious, I'm taking a nap. Bye.
Odin: Chewie!
(opens eyes)
Me: ODIN!

 

[Passinwind]

We had quite a few scrub jays in our area 40 yrs ago, but development has pretty much eliminated their habitat.

A shame

Yep, and that's a whole subspecies living mostly just in Florida IIRC. It's nesting season here right now, lots of obvious angst showing on the part of the parents.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

In Alaska we have mostly crows, ravens, and eagles.

 

[beans-on-toast]

In Alaska we have mostly crows, ravens, and eagles.

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Do they ever swoop down on people?

I see crows every day, they live in the park teaming up to distract the squirrels and then stealing their food. I sometimes see eagles in the country. Typically one or two in trees.

There must be good eats in Sitka to support so many.

 

[G-Dog]

In Alaska we have mostly crows, ravens, and eagles.

View attachment 3431912

Do they ever swoop down on people?

Acckk!!! That convocation of eagles could carry off a mob of people in a New York minute (ooOOoo)! Eeek!!!
.

 

[Jeff Scott]

In Alaska we have mostly crows, ravens, and eagles.

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I've only seen two (maybe three, IDR for sure) in the CONUS ( in Aridzona and Ohio), so why are there so many of them together in what is, basically, NW Canãda?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Oh I know precisely what happened. From my point of view:

Me: I'm taking a nap.
Odin: I want another chewie.
Me: I'm serious, I'm taking a nap. Bye.
Odin: Chewie!
(opens eyes)
Me: ODIN!

From Odin’s point of view:

You: I'm taking a nap.
Odin: But I have a lot of energy to burn off.
You: I'm serious, I'm taking a nap. Bye.
Odin: You do that all night!
(opens eyes)
You: ODIN!
Odin: My friend Chaucer told me about idle paws, I couldn’t help myself.

 

[GwenOnBass]

From Odin’s point of view:

You: I'm taking a nap.
Odin: But I have a lot of energy to burn off.
You: I'm serious, I'm taking a nap. Bye.
Odin: You do that all night!
(opens eyes)
You: ODIN!
Odin: My friend Chaucer told me about idle paws, I couldn’t help myself.

And the Hipshot drop tuner

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[GwenOnBass]

Missing Leon.

 

[Passinwind]

I've only seen two (maybe three, IDR for sure) in the CONUS ( in Aridzona and Ohio), so why are there so many of them together in what is, basically, NW Canãda?

The fishery food resource is still relatively strong up there, for starters. I've seen around 100 in a day around here (only once though), but the peak season is only a month or three. There's a resident pair within about a mile of my house, we get close flyovers from time to time. But the only time I've seen a mob like in Will's picture was up north of Seattle on the Skagit River, which is a very famous birding location for that very reason.

We get Golden Eagles around here too, you'll see mixed flocks of juveniles occasionally. And then we have Ospreys all over the place, and they like to nest on navigation structures in the river. For many years there was a nest right at my favorite windsurfing launch spot, it was always a blast watching the babies grow up. Osprey will swoop down on your head if provoked, for real. My friends at USGS wore hockey helmets when they had to do work on nav beacon platforms or other places they have telemetry setups installed on out on the river.

 

[GonePlaid]

The fishery food resource is still relatively strong up there, for starters. I've seen around 100 in a day around here (only once though), but the peak season is only a month or three. There's a resident pair within about a mile of my house though. We get close flyovers from time to time. But the only time I've seen a mob like in Will's picture was up north of Seattle on the Skagit River, which is a very famous birding location for that very reason.

We get Golden Eagles around here too, you'll see mixed flocks of juveniles occasionally. And then we have Ospreys all over the place, and they like to nest on navigation structures in the river. For many years there was a nest right at my favorite windsurfing launch spot, it was always a blast watching the babies grow up. Osprey will swoop down on your head if provoked, for real. My friends at USGS wore hockey helmets when they had to do work on nav beacon platforms or other places they have telemetry setups installed on out on the river.

There is a pretty extensive eagle breeding program in Central FL, South of Orlando. They've been providing eagles to other sections of the country for years.

 

[Passinwind]

In Alaska we have mostly crows, ravens, and eagles.

Evidently! What a fab pic Will.

 

[SoulReflection]

In the past few years, I have lost four trout to ospreys and one to a bald eagle...they will find a way....