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Out just after daybreak with the dog. Everything is still. A heavy coastal fog rolled in during the night obscuring just about everything. Early morning is best when things are quiet and daily life isn’t in high gear yet.
still a few hummingbirds in DFW area. Just moved to this really beautiful home a month ago and still struggling to get birds to my seed feeders. Yesterday I had a bunch, today none.
Was it something I said?
Maybe in the winter they will be desperate and visit me.
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Out just after daybreak with the dog. Everything is still. A heavy coastal fog rolled in during the night obscuring just about everything. Early morning is best when things are quiet and daily life isn’t in high gear yet.
I'm guessing living in what is arguably the best climate in the US doesn't hurt either?
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still a few hummingbirds in DFW area. Just moved to this really beautiful home a month ago and still struggling to get birds to my seed feeders. Yesterday I had a bunch, today none.
Was it something I said?
Maybe in the winter they will be desperate and visit me.
I've noticed at times I may not see them often but the level of the 'nectar' does go down and nothing's leaking. Saw 2 today chasing each other around, territorial little buggers.
I used to think deer were the scariest thing seen from a motorcycle until years ago coming downhill into a NJ town near the Delaware Water Gap a big old bear came ambling across the road. That and we used to ride thru a no-kill fly fish only area that had a really rough dirt road that on a street bike was pretty much 1st gear only, it dawned on me if a bear popped up it'd be a challenge outrunning it.
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I lived in Seattle some years back and was surprised by the dearth of flying insects in that area. They didn't even bother with window screens! You couln't get away with that in my neck of the woods.
I grew up near the NJ meadowlands and we had the strategic bomber version of mosquitos. Now in coastal NC, although screens are probably a good idea, I don't think I've had more than 1 or 2 mosquito bites in 11 years. Have had an alligator in the driveway a watched a hawk down a mocking bird in the backyard though.
I used to think deer were the scariest thing seen from a motorcycle until years ago coming downhill into a NJ town near the Delaware Water Gap a big old bear came ambling across the road. That and we used to ride thru a no-kill fly fish only area that had a really rough dirt road that on a street bike was pretty much 1st gear only, it dawned on me if a bear popped up it'd be a challenge outrunning it.
That's when you stand your ground, make yourself look as big as possible, and hope it's a bluff charge.
We recently returned from a visit to the Cobscook Bay area in Washington County Maine. We were lucky enough to observe a bald eagle, a bevy of bobwhite quails, lots of northern flickers, black eyed junkos, big fat robins, of course white tailed deer and... a moose!
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That and we used to ride thru a no-kill fly fish only area that had a really rough dirt road that on a street bike was pretty much 1st gear only, it dawned on me if a bear popped up it'd be a challenge outrunning it.