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05 Dec 12 - 10:36 AM (#3447427) Subject: BS: if you love birds From: GUEST,leeneia I'm a dedicated bird watcher, and so is my husband. We have enjoyed many wonderful trips based on birds. Yesterday we visited the site of the Cornell Ornithology Lab and saw that an unknown donor is matching donations, dollar for dollar. So we made a donation. What pleasure it is to know that we are helping rhe birds and also sucking money right out of the pockets of some fat cat! So I respectfully suggest it as a good place for one's own Christmas giving and Christmas presents on someone's behalf. Give me a sec and I'll make a link. |
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05 Dec 12 - 10:40 AM (#3447429) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: GUEST,leeneia Here's the site. They don't seem to have a home page, so I start with chickadees. Cornell bird site |
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05 Dec 12 - 04:31 PM (#3447663) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Doug Chadwick .......also sucking money right out of the pockets of some fat cat! So I respectfully suggest ..... If that's the sort of respect you give to someone who is matching donations dollar for dollar, then I'll pass thank you. DC |
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05 Dec 12 - 04:40 PM (#3447667) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Jack the Sailor Is "matching donations" a scam? The donor will donate or not. Making the donations contingent on yours seems like a ploy. I donate when the cause in worthy so presumably, does "the fat cat." |
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05 Dec 12 - 08:06 PM (#3447778) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Little Hawk The fat cat is the one who gets the bird. |
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06 Dec 12 - 04:57 AM (#3447910) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: gnu I am not a fat cat but I get the bird all the time. |
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06 Dec 12 - 06:25 AM (#3447945) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle ye-es.......bird and birds have a myriad meanings in spoken English (as spoken on the English mainland), Leenia....your title is pregnant with possibilities. Well done gnu! I'd forgotten that one! |
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06 Dec 12 - 07:41 AM (#3447959) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Dave Hanson I rather like chicken. Dave H |
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06 Dec 12 - 08:43 PM (#3448355) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: kendall The Black cap Chickadee is Maine's state bird. I feed them all fall, winter and well into the spring. I love it when they get impatient and come to the feeder before I finish filling it. Sometimes they land on my fingers. They are surprisingly strong in their feet. We also get Downy Woodpeckers, Piliated Woodpeckers,Cardinals, Sparrows, Nuthatches, Yellow Finches, Purple Finches, Mourning Doves and Turkeys. They always disappear around Thanksgiving. NO! I would never kill one. |
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06 Dec 12 - 08:53 PM (#3448363) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Bobert We've been birders going back for ever... We have feeders and houses and try to create environments where they are happy... We loves all them feathered creatures... b~ |
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07 Dec 12 - 11:18 AM (#3448634) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Ron Davies The degree of cynicism around here is striking, to say the least. I agree, Leeneia; I think the Cornell Lab is a worthwhile group. I give to them. I think it's interesting that ranges are definitely changing, evidently due to global warming. We used to get black-capped chickadees and both white-breasted and red-breasted nuthatches; now we get only Carolina chickadees and white-breasted nuthatches. And we also have some hardy robins and mockingbirds who don't fly south at all. That's new, too--admittedly I've been in this area for a while. |
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07 Dec 12 - 06:59 PM (#3448970) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: GUEST,leeneia According to my Peterson's, mockingbirds don't migrate. but I know what you mean about warming. Kendall and Bobert, it's nice to know you're into birds too. |
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08 Dec 12 - 12:09 AM (#3449070) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Ron Davies I think I read that some robins and some mockingbirds migrate, some don't. Virtually a sub-species. |
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08 Dec 12 - 12:17 AM (#3449072) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Henry Krinkle Sucking money. Ew. =(:-( x) |
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08 Dec 12 - 08:57 AM (#3449185) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: kendall When I lived on the other side of town I had a Whippoorwill. Its song was so soothing. |
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08 Dec 12 - 09:15 AM (#3449195) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Henry Krinkle I've had feeders. Destroyed by squirrels. They attract rats,too. I like birdwatching. I don't have a good window here. One day I'll take it up again. I need some good binoculars. I have a book. =(:-( )) |
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08 Dec 12 - 09:51 AM (#3449215) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Henry Krinkle 4 cats here. I shouldn't attract them here, anyway. =(:-( )) |
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08 Dec 12 - 10:23 AM (#3449225) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: kendall I have a shot gun. No Rats here. |
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08 Dec 12 - 10:24 AM (#3449226) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: kendall We also have a rather large feral cat. |
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08 Dec 12 - 10:32 AM (#3449228) Subject: RE: BS: if you love birds From: Henry Krinkle I'm in town. Can't be triggerhappy here. =(:-( )) |