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1 posted on 01/05/2014 1:15:55 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Hooo ?

Me n. m'whole family

Why ?

Too phuquin' cold in them places.

I dunno' ... gorebull warming, I'm told.

2 posted on 01/05/2014 1:18:21 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: BenLurkin

Had one visit us in Brevard County North Carolina last month.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 1:19:37 PM PST by rsobin
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To: BenLurkin

Is this a snow bird joke Ben ?:o)

Florida and Arizona are packed with old retirees .....aka “snow birds”


5 posted on 01/05/2014 1:23:49 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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6 posted on 01/05/2014 1:25:05 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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Birdie ping.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 1:28:44 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: BenLurkin

Bake at 350 for one hour with minced garlic.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 1:30:44 PM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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Experts say snowy owls fly farther south when their population spikes or their food source becomes scarce.

Or as the icepack advances.

9 posted on 01/05/2014 1:32:34 PM PST by Gamecock (Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
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Interesting. Back in October I saw a bald eagle near Fort Myers. Close up in the wild. Had about a 6 foot wingspan and was magnificent.


12 posted on 01/05/2014 1:46:56 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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I live near Jacksonville, FL, where this bird was spotted, and it’s been quite cold here...but it’s always cold in NE Florida. It goes down to freezing and below several days every winter, and it gets even colder inland. But it is never a sustained cold (more than a few days in a row, although it can come back a few days later). This is not unusual and hasn’t changed much.

So what is attracting these birds or driving them away from wherever they used to be? Birds, like all animals including humans, are opportunistic (meaning, they go where it’s best for them), so what is it that is bringing them here?


15 posted on 01/05/2014 1:56:26 PM PST by livius
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To: BenLurkin

Muggles beware.

16 posted on 01/05/2014 2:00:31 PM PST by bgill
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Looks to me as if the snowy owls are being shooed out of their habitat by all those ice cutters and global warmists down further south.

They need pristine ice, i.e. old ice growth to cohabitate and reproduce.

I thought that’s what somebody told me.

Oh darn, that was a spotted owl. And it wasn’t old growth ice they needed. Just a K Mart sign.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 2:04:34 PM PST by Ole Okie
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They are the largest North American owl...

Hmm. I thought that was the Great Horned owl.

19 posted on 01/05/2014 2:31:12 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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Any of them named Hedwig?


21 posted on 01/05/2014 3:38:05 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Global warming is driving them north south.
22 posted on 01/05/2014 3:41:12 PM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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Funny. Birds are a rather good indicator of weather ahead. This winter isn’t over yet...

When I see seagulls thirty miles inland, I take note of it. Generally inclement weather pops up in a day or so.


23 posted on 01/05/2014 3:44:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero!)
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