Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 25, 2012

Feeding frenzy!

I set up a couple of humming bird feeders. Sure they’re all cute, but truth is, they’re mean little bast—ds.

Hungry buggers.

Why does ‘The Birds’ come to mind?

Nadine is so bossy.

What if Alfred Hitchcock combined the scripts for “The Birds” and “Frenzy”?

At leat Tony’s last moments were decorative….

Well, I’m baaack….

it’s very late…. or very early, depending on how you look at it…. three in the morning, and I need to be asleep….

but I’m glad to be back on Ballard Street.

I think there were comments or questions to me yesterday…. I’ll try to catch up later.Seems like everybody’s gone to bed…even the Tiki looks quiet…So g’night….

Oh — before I go…first thing I thought of, after “oooh pretty colors!”:

A friend and I once took his then 3-year-old son to a local lake where people used to feed the ducks (now we know it’s not wise but this was years ago)

He handed his son the bag of stale bread they’d brought…and the kid walked towards the lake… Then instead of reaching in to take out a crust to throw, as he’d been instructed, he held up the open bag and started throwing handfuls into the sky…

All of a sudden we couldn’t see anything but ducks, covering him, dive-bombing him…. Sorta like Tony, here, but all white…

His dad ran to him, heart in mouth, yelling at the birds, driving them away…And there stood a gleeful little boy, unscathed, with his head up, his arms outstretched….cooing “more Daddy, more!”

Pretty….

@ Redkaycei Repoc and @Sheriff Monkeyblues

Thank you both for your suggestions re: BatPug. I’ve got a few days, so I’ll see what I can do about getting him a guitar that he’ll love. Doesn’t he have the perfect face for howling the blues?

hungry birds = angry birds!

yea well they are cute, I agree. Try that with turkeys!

i wish my wild birds were that friendly.even the neighborhood rock doves are skittish.corse it may be becouse i saw one of these guys on my feeding station the other day…

Good Morning All. I’m back. The Irish Rover got into Ballard Cove and docked so late, that I didn’t even stop at the Tiki Bar on the way home. I up and barely functioning this morning and trying to catch up on the past few days comments.Don’t know why Tony needs to put a feeder in his yard. In mine, I see every conceivable flying fauna from a pair of red-tailed hawks ( who use my trees as scouting perches ) to a three large sand-cranes, ibis, herons, blue and scrub jays, mockingbirds, whippoorwills, cardinals, wrens, and of course, the road crew ( vultures and turkey vultures ) and finally, an occasional bald eagle.

Around my yard we have both Cardinals and Blue Jays, both of which are very territorial. Each year the boundries move here and there. This year the Cardinals have claimed our yard. A few years ago a Blue Jay claimed our yard and my mom, she would sit on the front porch and he would come and sit with her for awhile. She loved it! We have to careful during the squabble period, they will divebomb anyone walking by.

I forgot to mention the Pileated Woodpeckers who come to fight and feast on nuts from one of my trees. They fight with their own image reflected in my sliding glass doors.They drive my dog crazy.

Hey Tony….!!!’member wut they say…!!!——“birds of a feather….”(in 3…..2….1)

He needs to be quicker. Just angle the bag down and run. That is taking entirely too long for them.

They’re coming out of the bag. That’s why it’s so funny.

since you didn’t have a drink last night, my offer holds for this evening… first round is on me,^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Thanks for the drink Red. After the day I had today, it was really welcome. I don’t know whats worse, going away or coming back.Anyway let’s jam !