Posted on 02/27/2021 7:49:14 PM PST by Daffynition
Lol! There you go!
As always, unless the topic is something deadly serious, that’s what we do here. Mix serious discussion with humor.
Okay, I concede. I could have and should have posted a much shorter piece on the half-male, half-female human drag queens.
My apologies.
Some interesting tidbits about Northern Cardinals. When branding them, we would offer the bird a q-tip, which it would grab - instead of your finger!
We used to use aluminum bands to band then. It is a butt end band, but the cardinals (most males) would sometimes bite down on the band after being released and deform it. Never saw a bird limping due to a deformed band, but saw several birds with deformed bands.
Now, many banding stations use steel bands. No way a cardinal is deforming that.
The moral of the story - keep fingers away from Northern Cardinals. And grosbeaks. And definitely away from shrikes!
Biden has tasked the Dept of the Interior with getting this poor, confused bird the sex-assignment surgery it so desperately needs.
Jays would be beautiful birds if only God had not given them the worst voices in the world and horrible personalities and behavior traits.
Oh. Thot St. Louis Cardinal.
A few years ago while doing some field research, heard the oddest noise while walking by some species of hawthorn tree. It sounded like someone running a coin along the face of an old washboard. I looked around and it was a Blue Jay! It was an alarm call as I was too close to a nest in that tree. Got out my mirror and saw three nestlings.
From then on, checked on them from a distance using binoculars until the nestlings successfully fledged.
Heck of a good place build a nest - no chance of raccoons getting to the nestlings in that species of tree!
Not much chance of anything getting into a hawthorn tree. Those thorns are nasty and painful!
I love watching blackbirds attack hawks around here (SF Bay Area). The blackbirds are agile and nimble and can outfly the raptors. They peck at them in midair and eventually drive them off.
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