Baby’s First Flight ❤️ Bird Weekend February 1-3, a moemeobro, Claybourne, and 1forpeace Event

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Thanks a billion :-)

The birdhouse is behind my house and I witnessed the baby bluebirds leaving their nest. The Mom calls to them from a nearby branch to leave. I was ready with a camera for this one :-)

Ha ha! WKRP flashback :-)
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Turkeys can fly, though. I also thought they didn't. But one buzzed my truck last summer when we were in Colorado

If I had my window down, I could have touched a giant hawk that was going to fly in front of me, then bailed and flew beside me for a moment.
It was really cool looking :-)

That must have been awesome. Of course, if you had touched it you probably would have wound up losing a finger

Yeah, that was actually yesterday I almost hit that thing. I would have gotten my ass kicked by it because it was a hunter, with all its hardware :-)

Thems good eatin' though.
We don't get a lot of neat wildlife in these parts. I'm more likely to hit a pigeon than anything else

I work second shift and am always in fear of smacking a deer on my way home.

If was definitely a trip seeing deer just hanging out and grazing on the side of the road in the middle of the city

Lol :-)

Lol, I almost made a meme about penguins flying :-)

2 weeks :-(

I hope to play again :-)

2 weeks eh

Thanks, brother :-)
I shall climb back onto my bike soon I hope.
After all, I’m a millionaire, eh :-)

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I had birds that nested in the window box of my old apartment on the third floor, and one time one of the baby birds tried flying a little too soon. But he was ok, animal control got him and put him back into the nest. And I believe he was gone the next morning.
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That’s a nice story how you saw the little one get a bit too eager to fly when it wasn’t quite time.
I’m glad they were able to give it another chance.
Bluebirds have several broods a year in the house out back, and once a baby was floundering on the ground. The Mom was staying with him, but it’s a very vulnerable situation to be in. I wore gloves and set him up on a tree branch to get him off the ground. As far as I know, he did ok :-)

To be able to watch them hatch is amazing. My friend had a small school, and one day I let the kids come over so they could see the baby birds up close. I also scared crows away, although one year they did get one of them.
Nature is an amazing thing.
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That’s so cool you shared it with the kids :-)
I built the birdhouses here, but I never realized how much trouble I’d have keeping predators and other birds from wrecking the bluebird nest, eggs or babies.
Luckily, there’s several groups born and raised every year <3

How could I not share it with the kids? Being able to watch the baby birds from hatching to when they fly away was a real treat. And just makes you appreciate nature even more. I can understand your point though of the more you have the more you have to protect. Then they just keep coming back, for years and years, every spring.
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I’ve witnessed a house wren puncturing the eggs of a Carolina Chickedee, then toss them out of the box. The House Sparrow is the worst, I’ve seen them: smash bluebird eggs, kill baby bluebirds, kick out the adults then start building a nest on top of baby bluebirds, toss out live babies... it’s horrible :-(
You can bet, when March comes around and the birds begin their rituals, I’m watching very closely!

As I mentioned, one time I saw a crow fly and just pluck one of the baby birds out of the nest and fly away with it. One of the reasons I tried to shoo them away from my window area as much as I could. The things animals do to each other is not always nice, it is sad. :(
Take good care of your birds and their babies. :)
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There are a lot of bluebirds around here nowadays <3
I also had the chickadees several years, but that box was damaged and I didn’t make a new one.
A few times tree swallows had moved in. Tree swallows eat bugs as they fly, they’re like little fighter jets!
I hated to go into the bad things the birds have done, especially with you. You are that bright spot that I can count on for kindness and an uplifted spirit <3
Peace to you :-)

Thank you for your compliments. Being nice isn't hard. And what can you say but some birds are a**holes.
Enjoy taking care of the birds and their babies, whoever nests there.
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Wanted to reply with WKRP reference (one of the all time great episodes in sitcom history), but you beat me to it so I will just say "OH, THE HUMANITY!"...COMWITIPLLWOTP :-)

Ha ha! I’m glad someone out there watched that! I was thinking it was only me. I just rewatched the turkey drop clip around Thanksgiving :-)
COMWITTIPLLWOTP!

LMAO! WKRP is one of my favorites. We stumbled across The Thanksgiving episode last November channel surfing. "Planes, Trains And Automobiles" has been a yearly Thanksgiving night ritual for decades, maybe I should add WKRP to the lineup. COMWITIPLLWOTP :-)

Not only was it funny, Loni was way to pretty for that show!
I think she digs us because we’re a COMWITTIPLLWOTP! :-)

What's not to dig? Everybody remembers Mary Ann versus Ginger, but there was also Bailey versus Jennifer...probably one of my top ten shows COMWITIPLLWOTP :)

Mary Ann, Genie, Janice from Three’s Company...
Actually, when I met my wife, she looked like Janice :-)
But, I’ve probably racked more hours watching the Stooges back in the day, COMWITIPLLWOTP!

Did I ever mention my unfortunate experience at The Hair Club For Men? I probably watched more Stooges and Laurel And Hardy. COMWITIPLLWOTP

First picture together.
You can see what she put up with! I looked like one of the Ramones :-)
Perhaps she knew one day I’d be one of a COMWITIPLLWOTP!
I wondered earlier about spelling Janice, and I realized it’s because the name was Janet.
It’s been a long time!
As far as your picture, who did your nails? :-)

What a cutie (your wife)...she did look like Janet. I met my wife 8 years ago Feb 12th so I don't have any vintage photos of us, but if I did my hair would probably look a lot like Tennille's. COMWITIPLLWOTP :-)

I’ve been busy lately, ugh!
Congratulations for your anniversary of meeting on the 12th!
We met June 3, 1983
COMWITIPLLWOTP!

Try not to work too hard...yeah, right...1983, wow, congratulations!...In June 1983 I was in Alaska trying to figure out how to ferment potato peelings...COMWITIPLLWOTP!