[pbs] OT: Birds
Judy Glattstein
jglatt at hughes.net
Thu Jun 12 14:44:42 EDT 2008
This spring a great horned owl had a nest across the creek that
parallels the road I live on. Very visible before the trees leafed out.
Apparently they utilize old heron nests. If you go here May 2008
<http://bellewood-gardens.com/2008-05.html> and scroll down to Hooters
there are some images.
Red tail hawks are common, both black and turkey vultures also common.
Turkeys fewer than in the past - probably coyotes predating on the
poults. Linc Foster, doyen of rock gardeners, used to curse the turkeys
at his place in Falls Village, Connecticut. They'd take dust baths, he
said, and the results were like a tank trap. Having seen what my hens
would do, back when we kept chickens, I can well imagine.
But the best here in New Jersey was the day I took a path through my
woods towards the road, came out by the compost heap - and there was a
peacock, nibbling a flower here, a leaf there . . . He had come visiting
from a neighbor about half mile up the road. Didn't know how well they
can fly. Didn't know I'd be seeing one in my garden either.
Judy in New Jersey where we're enjoying one of those rare and perfect
June days and ruby throat hummingbirds are visiting my nectaroscordum.
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