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Originally Posted by Oddmott

Grew up really interested in aggressive song birds, but never had Cardinals anywhere near our rural home. I move to the city and am surrounded by them. Very fun birds to interact with.

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I always thought of hummingbirds as quiet, and shy until I moved here that is. we have 2 feeders here, and the 2 years ago we had about 6 or 7 ,last year by the end of the season, we had about 20 or so. THIS year we have an estimated 30ish, we aren't real sure,because they fuss and fight so much always flying in and out so fast that we can not get an even remotely accurate count on them. And when we walk outside they are constantly in our face jabbering, yes jabbering. Not singing a happy little song, it feels like you are getting the 3rd degree when they fly up to your face chattering away like that. It is hilarious,you KNOW you are in trouble,especially when it's time to fill the feeders,which used to be every three or four days, then was every other day, we now have to fill them every day.

I do not have a camera that takes a good picture of them though, they are not still enough for that. We have several pairs of cardinals here as well, I love them you almost never see a male without his mate or vise versa.

Cardinals are a new arrival in my neck of the woods. They started showing up last year. We have been religiously feeding hummers for years and we are up to 10 cups of nectar a day!

In Colorado I had to refill the hummingbird feeders a couple of times a week. We had lots and yes they are feisty little suckers.

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Originally Posted by Oddmott

Grew up really interested in aggressive song birds, but never had Cardinals anywhere near our rural home. I move to the city and am surrounded by them. Very fun birds to interact with.

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That's a cool picture.I've seen only a few a them in my area so far.Cool bird.

You have a lot of potential there, Camp.

Nell, come September or late August whenever the days start turning cool the northern birds will be flying through migrating south. That's the jump you get in the Ruby's. They are incredibly smart birds. They remember where the feeders are and will stop by your place next spring looking for them. I try to get mine out in late March. The first ones generally arrive in early April. Here's a link for you. They have a map so you can watch it in the spring and see when they start arriving.

http://hummingbirds.net/

Here's a link to the map. It's obviously filled now but it will be empty over the winter.

http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html

Here's one I took this morning as I was walking to my car. This huge, dead moth was probably 4-5" across and was still being held by a spider web!

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Originally Posted by Rick

You have a lot of potential there, Camp.

Nell, come September or late August whenever the days start turning cool the northern birds will be flying through migrating south. That's the jump you get in the Ruby's. They are incredibly smart birds. They remember where the feeders are and will stop by your place next spring looking for them. I try to get mine out in late March. The first ones generally arrive in early April. Here's a link for you. They have a map so you can watch it in the spring and see when they start arriving.

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http://hummingbirds.net/

Here's a link to the map. It's obviously filled now but it will be empty over the winter.

http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html

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up Rick, I use that website to know when to start putting out a feeder,just one partially filled at first,but this year they are in full bloom i guess you could say, It has been soooo cool here the past week,and that is when they really stepped up on the eating. I made the remark to Steve (my bf), that it is almost like the cooler weather has them in that feeding frenzy before they head south. I would love to have feeders hanging all along the front porch, we hang them from each end of a singletree that decorate the porch and we have 4 more singletrees hanging out there.

Ran home for a quick trip around the lake [man-made :( ] on my lunch...

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Moho Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands last week with a rum punch in my hand.........

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Moho Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands last week with a rum punch in my hand.........

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Niiiiiiiice. Those ron punches (as they call them where I travel) can be dangerous.

Looks like my sub-irrigated planter made of junk is working out OK:

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Looks like my sub-irrigated planter made of junk is working out OK:

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That is awesome!!

The afternoon thunderstorms continue.

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Something a little different. I hadn't seen it anyway. On the left is a normal hickory nut from a Shagbark Hickory. The outer hull is in four segments with the hard shell hickory nut inside. On the right is 'a' nut (two actually) from the same tree. There are SIX segments to the outer hull and TWO fully developed hard shell hickory nuts inside.
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Love my step-daughter. Nasty spider bite that has her eye swollen completely shut... yet she doesnt stop smiling or running around endlessly.

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Love my step-daughter. Nasty spider bite that has her eye swollen completely shut... yet she doesnt stop smiling or running around endlessly.

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Awww poor babe,I hope that you have had her visit the doc? My daughter was bitten by a house spider several years ago,didn't look bad at all for 3 days,then she came hoe from school barely able to walk as it had swollen (upper thigh area) and a very red streak had formed from the bite area up her thigh and across her lower tummy area and back down the other thigh. Doc said she developed a bad allergic reaction (after 3 days?) to the bite. They treated with antibiotics after treating with epinephrine in the ED. Praying for a speedy recovery for the little cutie!

Aw, poor girl. But she looks like she is certainly taking it in stride.

Thanks Nell,

I'd actually had her into a pharmacy as soon as she woke up for some anti-histamines and then off to a walk-in clinic to see a doc and get some prescriptions before 9am. My mom was bit by a south american spider when she was working in a flower shop in the 80s. Nearly lost her leg and her life when that bite got out of control after 4 days and 2 different doctors telling her she had nothing to worry about and it'd go away on its own.

For me, bite+serious swelling=medical aid, STAT