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So, last year, about this time, a buddy and I both noted robins flying around my place. Figured most of 'em froze to death afore spring really got here. YESTERDAY, I'm sitting in the gun room at 3 PM (just got back from Texas) having a smoke and chattin' to an old buddy on the phone. Just about dropped my smoke when I realized that the hawk I was wantin to put the fear of gawd into finally flew close enough for me to realize it was a GBH (Great Blue Heron)! Feb 14, it's 23F, 2 feet of snow on the ground and a heron flies by. Good luck to him finding an open hole to fish in. Just wish I'd had the camera handy...
In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...
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Matt, Strange days, indeed! Yesterday we were coming home from a road trip and saw a giant Wild Turkey walking northerly on the mighty Rock River. It was 8 degrees with a south wind. I can only assume that he figures spring is coming, though slowly at walking speed.
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This time last year a ritzy neighborhood near my work advised people to slow down on one of their roads to avoid killing robins that were traveling across to reach crabapple trees in the median.
A couple of weeks ago a GBH landed by my pond too. It was frozen solid. You'd think it could have seen that from the air.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." Stephen W. Hawking
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We have Robins in our timber in NE year round.
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we have a few trees blooming here already
"Is the Poop-Deck really what I think it is?" - Homer Simpson
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We saw a couple of Monarch butterflies the other day. They are migrating North. They might be wise to get a motel room and hole up here for awhile.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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