Squirrels, Squirrels, and More Squirrels
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Topic: Squirrels, Squirrels, and More Squirrels
Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: Squirrels, Squirrels, and More Squirrels
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 5:39pm
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Monday_13-January-2020 There were gazillions of various brands of birds with this one squirrel scampering amongst them; I wish I could have included the entire scene and still be able to tell that they were birds and squirrels. Birds and a Squirrel    |
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 6:39pm
 that squirrel's tummy resembles mine
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 6:47pm
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DAVE... THATS FUNNY !! On the BIRDS, i got a BIG feeder and have 40 birds that hang out there every day.. In the winter i get more Blue Jays, Cardinals, and BIGGER bird like a small Dove ??? ...... About 30 of them are SMALL BIRDS and during the summer about ALL are them small guys !... like sparrows or ? Somebody here told me 2 years ago what they were, but i forgot. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 7:03pm
My wife, and I guess anyone with a "smart phone"(I don't have one), can take a picture of a bird and somehow it will tell her within micro-seconds just what kind of bird it is along with more pictures and information about the particular kind of bird the phone thinks it is. It can do the same with a song; just let the phone hear a few seconds of the song and it will identify it.
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steve(ill) wrote:Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 7:24pm
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my problem is getting the birds to POSE while i sneak up on them and take the photo with the phone !!.. If i had a GOOD CAMERA and was 50 ft away, it would work ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 7:36pm
My grandma always said, to catch a bird, sprinkle salt on his tail. I never was able to get close enough to throw rocks at one, let alone sprinkle salt on his tail. I never knew from what dark corners of folklore that old saying came from; but, I heard it quite frequently when I was a kid.
You need to get yourself one of these "Big Girl" cameras with a 500- or 600-mm lens and maybe a couple Tele-extenders to reach on out there and touch things. A few hours a week of Private Eye divorce court work will more than pay for a good camera/lens.
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 7:49pm
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love the cardinal, shoot the damn squirrel ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Acguywill
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2025 at 11:16pm
| When my daughter was about 4 or 5 she threw a rock at a pigeon and killed it. She brought it to the house and got her oma to clean and cook it for her. She ate the whole thing. |
Posted By: 8070nc
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 4:30am
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My daddy told me the same thing about salt on a birds tail. I chased little birds with a salt shaker for years before I realized if i was close enough to put salt on their tail i was close enough to catch em ------------- 1984 80780 1957 D14 DES 300 with 25000 engine 616 tractor |
Posted By: NEVER green
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 8:26am
WOW!!! I have trouble hitting them with a gun! ------------- 2-8050 1-7080 6080 D-19 modelE & A 7040 R50 |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 8:50am
So far as we know now, Kentucky and North Carolina used the saying about salt and bird's tails. At first, I was wondering if maybe it was restricted to just a small area around where I was raised. It would be interesting to know just how many states and maybe even countries used that saying; and, where did it originate from and why.
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 2:23pm
| that saying was definitely used where I grew up on RR#2 in Chester IL |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 2:32pm
How the story originated
And did I hear a request? https://youtu.be/UhHMwE250zg?si=CdvhiwBEFXUQ65VL" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/UhHMwE250zg?si=CdvhiwBEFXUQ65VL ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Dennis J OPKs
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 3:44pm
| Anyone know them as Turtle Doves? Maybe it's a Nebraska thing. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2025 at 4:32pm
My sentiments on the tree rat, too! Tastes mighty good, in a pot pie! ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2025 at 8:46am
they were turtle doves where I grew up in southern IL
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2025 at 11:45am
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Turtle dove was a common name in the west as well. And in the last 10 to 20 years we have Eurasian doves as well. Bigger more like a pigeon. No season on them Fish and Wildlife want them shot as an invasive species. Back in the 1960's gray tree squirrels were very plentiful. Then some disease wiped them out. Then in the 1980's you would see one again, but never plentiful. Then with English walnuts being a big crop here the growers wanted to know how to kill them off again. Now the ground dwelling squirrels never go away. Even with 1080 poison, that had a wonderful secondary kill of coyotes and stray dogs they were a real pest. Then 1080 poison was deemed to toxic and might kill a endangered rat. To bad rats are not endangered.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2025 at 1:51pm
| Get your self a Birdfy (birdfee) is how they pronounce it, it's a bird feeder with a camera. Our grandson and his wife got us one your Christmas a couple years ago and you can have it downloaded to your phone. Also go to Netvue Birdfy Community on Facebook, theres bird pictures posted from all over the world on there. |