I think I have become a crazy bird lady. Every morning I go out and put out food on the bird table for the birds, and fill up the hummingbird feeders. Well, now the crazy birds have become codependent on me. I was late getting out to feeding them this morning, and the birds who eat at the bird table were lined up along the fence freaking out that their food wasn't there. I have ravens that come down to eat as well, and they were up in the oak tree just bitching me out today as I was late feeding them.
Now for my hummingbirds. Most people get a hummingbird coming to feed, well last year was the first year I put out a feeder, and one came down, then another showed up, then another,,,,, and now I have 5 feeders up gallon sized and there must be over 100 hummingbirds flying around feeding. My neighbor asked yesterday if we were feeding them speed or something... I have created sugar addicts. I don't put the red dye in the mix as I know that is not really good for them, so I don't know if that is the difference, as we have asked our neighbors how many hummingbirds do they get, and they have maybe 3 at the most., and they do put in the red dye. So I guess my house is the hook up for the hummingbird feeder juice!
Oh yes, and last night Satan and I went and sat out on our deck to watch the bats come out. Yes, we also have bats. We do have a bat box, however we haven't found the right place to hang it from, as it needs to be up high. But we do believe they live in the trees out back, as that is where they were flying out of last night. I think we saw about 20 bats, all different sizes, they were all heading south when they came out of the trees, so we are wondering where they were off to. A bat party? A rave? Although we didn't see them wearing any funky looking hats, so maybe not a rave, but they were all headed somewhere.
And lastly we also have two red tail hawks that come down and sit in our Walnut trees. They are beautiful. They used to nest in one of the old old trees we had at the bottom of our garden, but last winter we had really bad rains, and the old tree came a crashing down, which was sad, as the hawks have now had to find another nesting spot, but they still come and hang out in our garden.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
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yes, ravens are like crows, just a lot lot bigger! They are from the same family.
Bats aren't as gross as people think, they are actually pretty cute! But then I am a freak anyway! As I also think Marilyn Manson is hot man as well.....I didn't say I was normal!
Jeez. Bats AND banana-thingies. Now I'm seriously jealous!
Guess I should go farther north next time me and Cranky go for a ride. It sounds gorgeous.
Ravens: SKRAK! *tap tap tap*
Yep, from what I understand, the red dye isn't so hot for the birds, and never use anything other than sugar to sweeten the water, like crack ;) Do you believe some dimwit used Nutra Sweet?! Hummers do NOT need diets! If the feeder has red somewhere on it, that should be plenty as they're obviously finding it. You can also plant red flowers and they dig :)
can't believe someone put nutra sweet in a hummingbird feeder, are they that stupid??????
Yes, pisser you need to come up north to visit the psychoness of life in the bay area!
dude, ravens are big. Did I tell you about the bats getting drinks from diane's pool. rum and coke i think they were having... anyway..CHECK OUT MY SITE!!!!!My ego can't take this.
yes, I do believe you did tell me about the bats coming in for drinks, they must have been party bats! HA! I added your site to my fave list!! So hopefully your ego will be fine now!!
Bats are great! The more you have the less mosquitos are around. woohooo!! We have dependent birds here too.. and squirrels! OMG they wait outside and stare at us until we feed them. We used to have flying squirrels, but recently a great horned owl has taken up residence...so I'm not sure if he's ate them or not.
Hawks are always so pretty. I saw a raven the other day. They're pretty rare to see here (usually just have the crows) and I knew when I saw it that it was there for me. Sure enough..... change happened.
OH! And I meant to tell you, we didn't make corn dollies at the Lughnassadh ritual. Nice offerings were given though. My fave holiday is next. :)
Birds are so entertaining to watch...especially when you give them alka seltzer, from what I have heard. I love your fucking blog...and satan is adorable...find me a nice inked guy and I'll be happy! What makeup counter did you work for?
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