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Post by jackscrap on Oct 26, 2021 22:31:02 GMT
Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia)
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 26, 2021 23:00:10 GMT
Canada geese doing a fly-by. Across the road ... October 26, 2021. EDIT: I darkened the original photo posted here.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 26, 2021 23:08:29 GMT
Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia) I give up; where's the bird ?
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 26, 2021 23:23:35 GMT
Canada geese doing a fly-by. There have been several big "V"s of geese (or more than likely cranes) flying across our Western sky in the last few seconds of before totally dark. I never get any closer to them than that; or, should I say, they never get any closer to me. I watched a KET documentary on Sandhill Cranes and learned from that that the majority of what us Southerners think are big formations of geese are most likely Sandhill Cranes. I have never had opportunity to prove one way or the other. Barren River Lake, about sixty or so miles from here, has so many Sandhill Cranes land and stay there for a few days that it is a popular thing to pay to ride a pontoon boat into the better part of their landing site; I don't know why they choose to stopover there instead of the much closer and much larger Lake Cumberland.>>> I got to puzzling over this and came up with a theory = Lake Cumberland is in steep, heavily wooded, terrain, where it is miles to the nearest agricultural field; whereas, they plant corn right to the water's edge on Barren; I wouldn't want to stay at a motel that lacked a good restaurant and I don't guess the Cranes do either. www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g39610-d488630-r348699235-Barren_River_Lake_State_Resort_Park-Lucas_Kentucky.htmlwww.nkytribune.com/2019/01/dont-miss-the-sandhill-cranes-at-barren-river-lake-state-resort-join-nature-watch-weekend-jan-23-27/
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Post by jackscrap on Oct 26, 2021 23:51:17 GMT
I give up; where's the bird ? You have to use your imagination...
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Post by hmca on Oct 27, 2021 15:51:13 GMT
Blustery day here today. Wind is 23 mph with wind gusts up to 36mph. Surprised to see these workers on the roof across from the ocean.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 27, 2021 17:02:28 GMT
Blustery day here today. Wind is 23 mph with wind gusts up to 36mph. Surprised to see these workers on the roof across from the ocean. I went to the bottom and started scrolling up; when I saw the angle of view, I knew it was either your photo or from a drone. You get an interesting point of view that most are incapable of, which makes anything you shoot even more interesting. Be prepared for everyone anywhere within two miles of that place to start having flat tires for the next few months; when they haul the refuse away, it will spread the old nails like a cropduster and those short sharp big-headed nails will every one stand straight up wherever they land.
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Post by hmca on Oct 27, 2021 21:28:33 GMT
Thanks, BuckSkin. So I showed your post to my husband and asked if he thought that was true about the flat tires. He said yes and reminded me about the many posts about flat tires on our town FB page!
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Post by tonyw on Oct 27, 2021 22:36:40 GMT
Heard about another local over the top Halloween display today so had to stop by for a photo - another of those 12 ft skeletons and a couple of horses too! Tony
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Post by hmca on Oct 27, 2021 23:21:53 GMT
Wow they certainly go "over the top" around you, Tony. I need to take a ride to see the decorations around town.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 28, 2021 4:24:40 GMT
No time for special PSEM photos, so am posting some not-so-great photos from today's search for snow geese. These are ducks. Posted on the local birder FB group. Large crops.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 28, 2021 7:06:53 GMT
Thanks for identifying the various ducks. When I was a wee lad, I had a large herd of ducks; many many filthy mess-making feather scattering ducks. I brought my start of them home in a brown paper sack; the last three Easter ducks from the Five & Dime, about a week after Easter had passed; the store owner cut me a deal I couldn't refuse and I was suddenly in the duck business. These first three were Mallards; and, as it turned out, all three were females; to grow this vast duck empire, I needed a male; at least that is what I was told. I found a miserly old pension farmer who was willing to part with two solid white Peking Drakes; at least he said they were Pekings; for the ginormous price of five bucks apiece, he tied their legs together; I slung them over my arm, and pedaled the six miles home; no one I met thought this was in any way out of the ordinary. I knew enough to tell that they were drakes; drakes always have a curly tail and ducks don't; and, drakes have a different quack, like some part of their quacker is missing. My white drakes mixed with my Mallard ducks, and so forth and so on, until I soon had well over two hundred head; if the ponds hadn't been infested with turtles, I would have had two thousand head. A mama duck would head across the pond with a dozen baby ducks and emerge on the opposite bank, lucky to have half-a-dozen. An occasional afternoon on the bank with a .30-30 would somewhat remedy this situation. Even after several generations and countless sacks of shelled corn, and several boxes of .30-30 shells, some of them were white and some looked like purebred Mallards; but, year after year, the Mallard blood prevailed, until the whole herd looked like genuine Mallards, although they had to be 50% White Peking; there is no scientific way they could not have been, as no outside blood was ever introduced. I say all of that to ask this; I count five named breeds of ducks in your photos; can and do these various breeds inter-breed as domestic ducks do ?
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Post by whippet on Oct 28, 2021 15:35:22 GMT
Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia) I give up; where's the bird ? I always wanted a bird of paradise, and actually saw some for sale last week on the market. I thought they must be miniature plants, as they were tiny. But minis are not mentioned anywhere I have looked. @ Tony. I think your second house is a very good photo. But, a craze which I hope doesn't start over here . . . . skeleton horses. @ Helen. At least your roofers are wearing safety harnesses. Edit - no hard hats though.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 28, 2021 15:37:13 GMT
another local over the top Halloween display Two things amaze me. 1) That costs a lot of money, but more importantly.. 2) Where do they store all of that stuff? At our place, between woodworking tools, general supplies, fishing and photography tackle, stuff, more stuff and then my wife's "warehouse" of quilting goods we already have too much stuff! I'd have to rent a storage bay to store all of those Halloween items.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 28, 2021 18:23:04 GMT
another local over the top Halloween display Two things amaze me. 1) That costs a lot of money, but more importantly.. 2) Where do they store all of that stuff? At our place, between woodworking tools, general supplies, fishing and photography tackle, stuff, more stuff and then my wife's "warehouse" of quilting goods we already have too much stuff! I'd have to rent a storage bay to store all of those Halloween items. Those were my thoughts exactly. Anyone with money enough to buy all that has more money than they have good sense --- at least that's what my grandma would have said. In the right place at the right time, that huge spider all by itself would have more impact than all the rest of the stuff.
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