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Old 01-15-2012, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Finally made it to Florida and lovin' every minute!
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Sure; I'd love to see it. Neat stuff.

Nature is being mean to most of the east, I see. I just got off the phone w/Mom. It's -18 degrees in Northern NY, with an expected high of 9. That's F, not Celsius degrees, and not a wind chill.

Our Sunday coffee friends called and said it was too cold to come out! It's 40 here! She was laughing - she couldn't believe they have gotten so used to the warm weather that they can't go outside in this.
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Old 01-15-2012, 08:43 AM
 
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Looks like you nailed it! This is a Buteo buzzard and looks just like Jezer's pic. Nice work, greatblueheron! I did not know the buzzard family could be so stylish! Edit: sorry about the guts....guess I could've cropped it!
Guts is part of nature, IMO. We are predators.

I took the mutts out and saw two very beautiful deer in front yard. The dogs did not see them, and they very gently and very quietly made their way out the opposite end.

The same five have been hanging around our house lately. This time they were eating the grape vines.
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Old 01-15-2012, 12:44 PM
 
Location: SW France
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Thanks for all the help- a buzzard looks the most likely, especially as it was 80 yards away- I paced it out. I thought it looked big.
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Old 01-15-2012, 09:55 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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After 4 inches of snow here, the birds, mostly sparrows, are getting so fat on my bird feeder he barely fits on the perch!!... mice are making their tunnels under the snow piles and hawks are starting to land on my back fence just waiting for the right moment... yes mother nature. Rabbits keep making tracks that turn to little ice spots on my cement patio.. just better watch those icy spots when I'm lighting the fire..
Have a great evening...
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Old 01-15-2012, 10:04 PM
 
Location: Da Region
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I got my first Juncos of the season here at my house! I've been seeing them around my area since about the autumn equinox, but yesterday was the first time they've landed at my feeders this year.
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Old 01-16-2012, 01:15 AM
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Sure; I'd love to see it. Neat stuff.

Nature is being mean to most of the east, I see. I just got off the phone w/Mom. It's -18 degrees in Northern NY, with an expected high of 9. That's F, not Celsius degrees, and not a wind chill.

Our Sunday coffee friends called and said it was too cold to come out! It's 40 here! She was laughing - she couldn't believe they have gotten so used to the warm weather that they can't go outside in this.
This is the best I could do with the lens I had while standing on the edge of the Indian mound and hoping not to fall backwards. From where I'm standing to the flat ground below is 25-30 feet down a very steep incline. This shot gives a sense of the indentation, and you can see the oak tree growing there and the way some of its leaves collect on the top of the mound.

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Old 01-16-2012, 03:30 AM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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^^^So interesting, bjh.

In my area, there are still civil war era mounds built arounds forts.
Also have Indian mounds but they are made of oyster shells.... some are buried, some form a circle....most of them are in the woods, along the tidal creeks.

Sorry I don't have a photo. I need to learn how to do at least a link...
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Old 01-16-2012, 03:35 AM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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Good for you! Those are neat little birds...was surprised to find out one spring that they nest in earthen berms. I was looking out a window in the mountains of NC when they began flying in and out of a berm that had been carved out years ago....small little nesting holes were obvious then but not until I saw them going in and out.


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I got my first Juncos of the season here at my house! I've been seeing them around my area since about the autumn equinox, but yesterday was the first time they've landed at my feeders this year.
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Old 01-16-2012, 03:37 AM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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Your place sounds like a very welcoming place for our wildlife friends

The hawks used to fly by my feeders too....part of nature but I prefer not to watch...


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After 4 inches of snow here, the birds, mostly sparrows, are getting so fat on my bird feeder he barely fits on the perch!!... mice are making their tunnels under the snow piles and hawks are starting to land on my back fence just waiting for the right moment... yes mother nature. Rabbits keep making tracks that turn to little ice spots on my cement patio.. just better watch those icy spots when I'm lighting the fire..
Have a great evening...
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Old 01-16-2012, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Mayacama Mtns in CA
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Question A Mushroom On a Tree

This tree is in my yard; it's a mature English Walnut tree, and I've been told that this:





is a Lion's Mane mushroom.

Never knew a mushroom could grow on a tree Anyone here have knowledge about this?

It has been there about two months now, and even through very windy and cold weather, though we've had no rain.
By the time I noticed it, it was just like this i.e., I didn't see it beginning to grow.
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