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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 31, 2023 4:07:09 GMT
Tundra swans at Tyrrell Lake.   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 31, 2023 6:07:15 GMT
Sticky.  |
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Post by Howard on Oct 31, 2023 6:34:19 GMT
If that is a Stick Bug, I haven't seen one in years.....; but then, I think that's the idea I think you nailed it there  Only ever seen half a dozen in my 40 yrs in oz but all of them whoppers. At least they don't bite, unlike most things in this place! |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 31, 2023 17:03:19 GMT
If that is a Stick Bug, I haven't seen one in years.....; but then, I think that's the idea Good line. Made me laugh.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 31, 2023 18:46:44 GMT
I assume that is an old RxR trestle or is it ?
What RxR ? From where to where ?
I wouldn't poke my finger in that water for all the tea in Chiney.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 31, 2023 18:57:46 GMT
Trying to capture the elusive white throated tree creeper.
I need to chicken-wire our porch before me or the wife end up crippled for life; that stuff gets the least bit wet and it is slicker than snot on a doorknob.
Are you guys still allowed to use the good Arsenic-treated lumber that lasts for decades, or are you like us and have to use the greenie stuff that rots down as quick as you nail it up ? |
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Post by Howard on Oct 31, 2023 20:56:26 GMT
Are you guys still allowed to use the good Arsenic-treated lumber that lasts for decadesYes, treated pine still a mainstay of the building industry, just don't use it on the barbie. |
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Post by jackscrap on Oct 31, 2023 21:31:12 GMT
BuckSkin , it’s the Old Goulburn River bridge. No bities in this river😊
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 31, 2023 22:11:53 GMT
We love blue jays and spend a lot of money over the winter keeping them happy with peanuts in the shell and they are worth every penny.
Do they fly off with the peanuts in shell or hull them and eat them while you watch or what ?
Raw or Roasted ?
My father-in-law always gets a huge bag of roasted peanuts for his many loafers and hang-arounders when he goes to the feed-mill; probably 50-pounds; they are very inexpensive.
One time, the new kid at the mill put the wrong kind in his truck = raw.
They filled old annoying Joey up with them and his mother had to go get him at school the next day; she made him strip outside and took the hose to him before she let him go in. |
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Post by Jim on Oct 31, 2023 23:10:23 GMT
just don't use it on the barbie.  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 31, 2023 23:19:04 GMT
What would they do with peanuts not in the shell ? Do they fly off with the peanuts in shell or hull them and eat them while you watch or what ? Raw or Roasted ? They eat peanuts in shells or already shelled. They sometimes just fly into a tree and hammer out the seeds. But they also stash them all over the yard and neighbors' yards. We find them in spring under leaves and bushes. They are roasted but not salted. OMG! Peanuts are a silly price here. I ration the jays. We have a feeder that, if I fill, they will empty it in a couple of hours of there are 3 or 4 jays around. Ka Ching. So they get a handful or two only now. We love watching them so spending money on seeds is okay. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 1, 2023 1:35:24 GMT
They are roasted but not salted.
Have you considered planting a few rows of peanuts; both my grannies used to grow them in their huge gardens.
If my memory serves, they grow beneath the ground like taters so the climate shouldn't be such a factor. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Nov 1, 2023 4:40:05 GMT
That surprises me; I would have figured raw for non-human consumers. Have you considered planting a few rows of peanuts; both my grannies used to grow them in their huge gardens. If my memory serves, they grow beneath the ground like taters so the climate shouldn't be such a factor. They are dry roasted but no salt. Peanuts are marginal at best here. The growing season is a bit short. The peanut seeds do grow underground. A most odd crop. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Nov 1, 2023 4:45:40 GMT
Snow geese again. I had a great afternoon. I was quite well hidden along a lake shore. The flying dark one is a true snow goose and in birder lingo is called a dark morph. They are popularly know as blue geese. You can Google snow goose (blue goose) genetics. The off-white geese on the water are juvenile white forms. 
Two adults standing. They are a male and female mated pair with one of their the darkish kids that will become a blue goose.  |
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Post by jackscrap on Nov 1, 2023 5:55:48 GMT
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