Alaskan Bird Lover

[Dick Smith]

Tell me again how seagulls help the environment!

[N96337]

Re: Alaskan Bird Lover

Could be worse, Dick! Could've been a Heron (shitaquart, as I call them!)
John

[Larry Lyons]

Re: Alaskan Bird Lover

Could be worse, Dick! Could've been a Heron (shitaquart, as I call them!)
John

Yeah and around here it contains solids too! They love craw dads. L

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Alaskan Bird Lover

We have loads of Herons here too. BEAUTIFUL birds, till they make a "deposit". They perch if FLOCKS in the trees and the droppings are often over 6' (that's six FEET!) long as they drop from the trees. An hour in the trees around your house and your lawn, house, cars and anything else outside is COVERED in slime that smells like dead fish in the hot sun. The local government passed laws saying you couldn't "harass" them and they define that as doing anything that makes them move on. If they are nesting over your home you may as well move. They even added additional restrictions saying you can't remove trees they roost in. One home owner finally topped the trees in his yard and cut off all the branches leaving his yard looking like it was filled with telephone poles to get rid of them. They (the wildlife lovers that didn't have roosts in their yards) tried to go after him, but he didn't violate the law, just the intent, and the judge let him off. They fly up the creek behind our house but don't roost here (yet).
Hank
I love to watch them, but I don't want them in my yard.

[flyguy]

Re: Alaskan Bird Lover

Man VS Nature. Wait, we're nature too. Guess there must be someone out there that I have crapped on, figuratively speaking of course. It's late, and I'm getting weird (more than normal.)
DC

[Bird]

Re: Alaskan Bird Lover

I resemble these remarks, good thing you don't fly under my crane!

[Dick Smith]

Re: Alaskan Bird Watching

These critters are a bit easier to put up with than seagulls...early morning and late evening are the favorite times to "check the tiedowns". Never know what you will see. Loons are often thought of as pretty solitary birds. We often have a pair nest on this lake and they get pretty defensive. This year a "gang" of loons is really working the small trout population over. When you watch them through the spotting scope under certain lighting conditions, they look like a battle group of warships intent on a mission. This single trumpeter swan has been showing up the last few days. Dick

[N96337]

Re: Alaskan Bird Watching

I love to hear a Loon just before sundown...... awesome sound!