BS: Help with a Sign for a tree

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: autolycus
Date: 16 May 06 - 04:25 PM

Blast - Ebbie beat me to it nearly.

   Even more concise - "Strictly for the birds"


    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 10:26 PM

Ebbie, simplicity at its finest!

SRS, we have a weeping willow like that in our backyard, but no creek. The only birds I see back there are mourning doves, robins, starlings, sparrows, and an occasional oddball/thrill. I love them, all, though, esp. when thay are off on flights of fancy and mating, then muttering as they nest. They do like our birdbath/waterer.

Thanks, folks!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 May 06 - 09:53 PM

"This tree is for the birds"

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 06 - 05:43 PM

My next door neighbor has a gnarly windblown disreputable looking old willow at the back of her property, overlooking our creek. I hope she never touches it--we have an amazing array of animals and birds in and on that tree. At night it's a perfect view for owls of any rodent meals, and during the day I've seen hawks, owls, herons, egrets, and lots of little songbirds come and go out there.

Use at least one of those poems and stick to yer guns!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: open mike
Date: 15 May 06 - 05:19 PM

i think ther eis a line from Joyce Kilmer's Tree poem
that says "A nest of robins in her hair...."

how about "Quiet, Residential Area"

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 05:07 PM

Very Kewl! THIS is what I love about Mudcat!! Thanks, fellahs!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 May 06 - 05:06 PM

In case your neighbors need any convincing:

Snags for Wildlife, from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
Snags: One species' eyesore is another's habitat from the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection.
Save a Snag for Wildlife from Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Woodpeckers and Snag Dynamics from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Critter Condos: Managing Dead Wood for Wildlife from the Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources (in pdf format).

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:57 PM

Nice spin of one of my old favs, Divis. Thanks! I think this tree is going to encourage literacy.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:51 PM

Never hurts to reiterate, Jim. Put so succinctly, I may print it out and hand it to the next fellah who stops by to ask if we want it cut down!

Had a flicker in the other tree near it, last year. That tree has a couple of dead largish limbs.

Tks!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:49 PM

The kiss of the sun for pardon. The song of the bird for mirth. This tree continues to bring life even though it has left this earth.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:41 PM

Standing dead trees - called "snags" - are valuable for wildlife, especially woodpeckers, and should be left standing if they aren't dangerous and you don't need the firewood.

But I suppose you knew that?

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:34 PM

LOL! BillD...okay, we won't.**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Bill D
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:27 PM

"Avian Retweet"

(the tree will fall eventually...don't wait TOO long)

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: Bert
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:10 PM

Nice one Giok!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 06 - 03:25 PM

Horatio, I am dead. If thou canst readest this missive thou art too close.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 03:10 PM

MMario, we cross-posted. I LOVE that, too. May have to use both!! Tks!!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 03:09 PM

Oh, Giok, that is PERFECT!!! Thank *yew*!!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: MMario
Date: 15 May 06 - 03:08 PM

I'd go with a real estate looking sign - "For sale, Lease or Purchase - multi-family; multi-story avian apartments."

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 May 06 - 03:04 PM

For the birds
That's why I'm here you see
For the birds,
I'm not just any old tree
For the birds
I'm home and family
For the birds
I stand here day by day
For the birds
I'm here, and here I'll stay.

Giok

Subject: BS: Help with a Sign for a tree
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 May 06 - 02:46 PM

We've got an old tall poplar tree which has died. We get many solicitations for cutting it down. every year we hve two or three nesting pairs of birds which use it as their *condo*, so we have left it. We rarely have high winds or other forces of Nature which might take it down and it also is pretty strong, so we've decided to leave it for now, for the nbirds.

I'd like to make a sign for it which may start out with line "For the birds" then go into a short poem or something which says, in a fun way, why it has been left standing.

Any suggestions?