:-s…I think my daughter has a copy of Le Petit Prince somewhere; I’ll have to read it.
PS:Osprey. I’d love to visit your area for the real kind. Sounds corny, I know :) We used to have a pair of common buzzards fly the thermals outside our home in England. Wonderful to watch. I miss that.
Thanks.Oh wow, I see an osprey in the nest right now! The image is pretty good, can clearly see the feathers ruffling in the wind.I’ve seen you and ahab exchange updates about the osprey :)
:) We have (had) foxes visit the water canal …their mating is LOUD; many magpies and oddly enough, seagulls. We’ve seen magpies angrily chase off the buzzards. Wood doves, lovely cooing and the occasional stork wading in the canal. Alas, nothing anymore since we moved to Vienna.
I didn’t know roadrunners hunted small animals…I blame the roadrunner cartoons.
English sparrows? So that’s where they all went to! In the UK there has been a tremendous drop in their numbers, you barely see a sparrow nowadays. Much speculation about their crash. Plenty in Austria though.
In the last few minutes the smaller mate arrived (female?) with a half eaten fish. The larger mate got off the eggs, made a weird chirping sound, grabbed the fish and flew off with it while the smaller got onto the nest. Cool!
Well, well. I feel I have to chime in, living at the edge of a park. The place is swarming with wildlife. Deer that strip almost everything below 5 feet, coons, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and so on. 5 kinds of woodpeckers from the Pileated to the Downy, Mourning Doves, catbirds, cardinals, finches, starlings, 2 kinds of wrens and of course a few kinds of sparrows. Juncos in the winter, and our friend Phred, the nuthatch, that comes by every morning to get his peanut jammed into the hole of a brick. A veritable zoo, fun to watch. As an amateur photographer I have oodles of pictures.
Needless to say, I am also watching the Ospreys, the Eagles and the Falcons.
Happy Two Shoes about 8 years ago
It’s clear Trump is a selfish pig.
OmqR-IV.0 about 8 years ago
:-s…I think my daughter has a copy of Le Petit Prince somewhere; I’ll have to read it.
PS:Osprey. I’d love to visit your area for the real kind. Sounds corny, I know :) We used to have a pair of common buzzards fly the thermals outside our home in England. Wonderful to watch. I miss that.
OmqR-IV.0 about 8 years ago
Thanks.Oh wow, I see an osprey in the nest right now! The image is pretty good, can clearly see the feathers ruffling in the wind.I’ve seen you and ahab exchange updates about the osprey :)
OmqR-IV.0 about 8 years ago
:) We have (had) foxes visit the water canal …their mating is LOUD; many magpies and oddly enough, seagulls. We’ve seen magpies angrily chase off the buzzards. Wood doves, lovely cooing and the occasional stork wading in the canal. Alas, nothing anymore since we moved to Vienna.
I didn’t know roadrunners hunted small animals…I blame the roadrunner cartoons.
OmqR-IV.0 about 8 years ago
English sparrows? So that’s where they all went to! In the UK there has been a tremendous drop in their numbers, you barely see a sparrow nowadays. Much speculation about their crash. Plenty in Austria though.
OmqR-IV.0 about 8 years ago
In the last few minutes the smaller mate arrived (female?) with a half eaten fish. The larger mate got off the eggs, made a weird chirping sound, grabbed the fish and flew off with it while the smaller got onto the nest. Cool!
kurt.zwicky about 8 years ago
Well, well. I feel I have to chime in, living at the edge of a park. The place is swarming with wildlife. Deer that strip almost everything below 5 feet, coons, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and so on. 5 kinds of woodpeckers from the Pileated to the Downy, Mourning Doves, catbirds, cardinals, finches, starlings, 2 kinds of wrens and of course a few kinds of sparrows. Juncos in the winter, and our friend Phred, the nuthatch, that comes by every morning to get his peanut jammed into the hole of a brick. A veritable zoo, fun to watch. As an amateur photographer I have oodles of pictures.
Needless to say, I am also watching the Ospreys, the Eagles and the Falcons.
Kurt
weatherford.joe Premium Member over 7 years ago
This reminds me of The Little Prince.