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Re: [Awww] Don't forget to look for the

So, ur telling me if a ghost was hidin' in one they could go...."Pooka-boo!!!"??!!

Sunny
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Sunny

OK with me since I can't hear 'em or see 'em, but I'll pretend I don't notice any ... ummmm ... instabilities in my team mates.

And speaking of instabilities, here's a call out to our bird expert, Icky: How long do those birds get for lunch? They've been off the job for over an hour? Do they get a siesta, too?

sashwa
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Well they do have recess after lunch.

Sunny
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Apparently this job has good benefits. Two hours, 11 minutes for lunch!

I just did some reading about robins. It is not uncommon for them to build several nests. I hope that's not what she is doing with those pookas.

Most of what is there does not resemble any photos of robin's nests I have found so far. None of them seem to have cotton balls and tissues worked into them. And it seems they need mud to get them to hold together. It's quite a distance to the creek from here. Wonder how she plans to manage that.

Do I need to make some mud for her?
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Oh, good! You're another robin expert, right?

sashwa
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I don't know about being a Robin expert but my daughter's first name is Robin.

Icarus
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said by Sunny:

I just did some reading about robins. It is not uncommon for them to build several nests.

I see how that could be problematic!
Look at that little guy already spreading his wings!

Sunny
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I found a list of Seattle area backyard birds and looked them all up on the Audubon Society site today, saved the links so I can refer to the photos and listen to their calls and songs, get acquainted with some of my flying friends around here.

I have an absolute favorite now. Meet the Golden-crowned Sparrow. Read the few words about that bird's songs and then play the two song clips.

»birds.audubon.org/birds/ ··· -sparrow

I love it!

Gizmo
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In Your Mind
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said by Sunny:

I was thinking how special it would be to watch the little robin up close...

Sorto call of the wild........................................

Sunny
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Sunny

Eeeeek, the Icky slippers are back!

Everyone be very quiet. It looks like some serious nestbuilding going on under my deck. Looks like she may have discovered some mud in my neighbor's garden.

Icarus
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SNEAKERS!!!

Santa Fe
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said by Icarus:

SNEAKERS!!!

SOFAS!
Santa Fe

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said by Sunny:

Eeeeek, the Icky slippers are back!

Everyone be very quiet. It looks like some serious nestbuilding going on under my deck. Looks like she may have discovered some mud in my neighbor's garden.

I'm trying to get my cat

to fall asleep.

Sunny
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I keep learning things about my robins and their nest building. I didn't realize until yesterday they need mud to first affix the base and then they gradually build a mud bowl, use mud to surround it with grass and twigs, woven together. I have viewed hundreds of robin's nest pictures but have not found one with fuzzy white blobs in the mud bowl and/or base.

Amazing.

I gathered some twigs for her this morning and poked them out the door while she was away, just to see if she uses them, especially the green ones. That would be another distinction, I think.

I wondered why they work so feverishly hard from first light until nearly noon and then seem to leave the nests alone. Duh. Once they make hundreds of round trips to get beaks full of mud and deliver them, put them where they go, then they need to give it time to dry.

My robins are very intelligent to have chosen nest property where they won't have to worry about rain.

And they have a built in security guard to at least keep the crows away. The cat, who goes to the door two or three times a day to scold them, in her very scratchiest Pyewacket voice, may be sort of a negative, however.

»www.learner.org/jnorth/t ··· est.html

Icarus
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MOOSE!
Icarus

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Pyewacket voices must echo something awful in all them Pookas!

squirt
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said by Icarus:

MOOSE!

ELK!

Icarus
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Icarus

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COUCH!

Sunny
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This is actually Day 5 since I first noticed the activity in the 8th. Apologies for the interruption. I slipped out the back door when I thought nobody was watching. Got the following:


Leftmost and Rightmost are still being constructed


Left one has looked weird all along, still does


Rightmost looks better, but b4 I could snap the shot ...


Mama Robin swiftly appeared to let me know NOT TO COME ANY CLOSER!

Needless to say, I backed off. I don't think she is afraid of me!
Sunny

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Before Icky asks, I did not supply the tissues, have no idea where she got them. I can say they did look clean and new when she flew in with them, but she has nearly worn them out trying to decide where they belong.

squirt
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said by Icarus:

COUCH!

CHESTERFIELD, eh!

Icarus
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Ohhhh....that reminds me of todays lesson in my efforts to learn the language of Canadia! Todays task was to use chesterfield in a sentence....

"Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield."

Hows that?

squirt
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said by Icarus:

"Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield."

You forgot to say "please". Canadians are (at least superficially) very polite.

Icarus
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Icarus

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Sorry!

Sunny
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Sunny

Given the winkies, that looks sufficiently superficial to me.

Icarus
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Im learning! I have also started pronouncing "Z" as "Zed" and I really dont care that it doesnt rhyme with "now I know my ABC's" !

Santa Fe
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While you all have been arguing,

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· A67QvWBw
I've been busy!

Sunny
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Sunny

Mama Robin wasn't in evidence when I went to get the mail, so I decided to go around and see what those two nests look like from the other side.


Most developed on your left, odd one on your right now



Most developed one



Odd one is odd from this side, too

Icarus
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The nest is kinda funky but that deck is really well built!

Sunny
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It is, yes. We predict, if they ever want to put a freeway through here, they won't do eminent domain on us because they won't be able to tear down the deck. They would have to route the freeway around us.