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051.57346.jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org> Message-ID: f323b5930907171254m11aab895xfd19569b8a7a47ee-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg at public.gmane.org John Abreau wrote: | On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, John Chambers<jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org> wrote: | > | > One of the main signs in our yard of how wet it's been is that we're seeing | > redwing blackbirds at the feeder. They like to nest near water, so we usually | > don't see them here. Lately, we've been seeing families of them, with the | > adults teaching the babies to use bird feeders (and attack sparrows). | | A little avian jihad? :-P Yeah, and not too surprising considering the behavior of the mobs of house ("English") sparrows that infest most backyards. Redwings are somewhat social critters, too, but they don't form the aggressive gangs that the innocent-looking little sparrows do. Anyway, I noticed some good news on the weather front. The NWS had been saying "showers and thunderstorms before noon"; they've changed it to "A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 9am." The storm system seems to be moving east a bit faster than expected. So the afternoon should be dry, unless we're in the path of a later straggler storm. -- There are three kinds of people in this world, those who count and those who don't.
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