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Offline Steve Wood

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« on: March 01 2011, 03:16:34 PM »
Took down the house and cleaned out the sparrow nests a week after the scouts arrrived.   Nothing like procrastinatio n.  I hope I did not piss them off as I really enjoy the four months of happy chatter they bring along with them.

Hope the rest show up soon before the sparrows start imposing squatter rights again.  Maybe I should inform the sparrows as to the availability of the Wisconsin capitol building?
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« Reply #1 on: March 01 2011, 07:20:40 PM »
The only birds I have around here on a regular basis is Muscovy ducks. I don't care for them at all. One has a huge nest with 13 eggs in it right outside my office window.

Nasty buggers
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« Reply #2 on: March 01 2011, 08:45:34 PM »
I must admit my ignorance as far as the names of birds go. But, those barnswallows (?) that make nests out of mud and spit and shit all over the porch are not my friends.
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« Reply #3 on: March 01 2011, 09:02:31 PM »
martins are a type of swallow.  One year, I spent sometime trying to convince those mud nest building swallows to not do it under my porch or in my shop...damn determined creatures.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01 2011, 09:25:01 PM »
Quote from: "Steve Wood @ Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:02 pm"
martins are a type of swallow.
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« Reply #5 on: March 01 2011, 09:44:41 PM »
yep...the year I had my wars was the year it rained all summer and this place was a jungle rather than the usual desert.
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« Reply #6 on: March 01 2011, 09:55:08 PM »
too bad they don't like mosquitoes... a popular myth
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« Reply #7 on: March 01 2011, 09:58:44 PM »
Ugh! I'll take ANYTHING over mosquitoes. How do people live out east?!
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« Reply #8 on: March 02 2011, 07:41:12 AM »
It got cool enough last night to open the windows last night - woke up with 2 mosquito bites and one buzzing my ears. Gah!

Now I get the examine my screens for rips.  :mad:
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« Reply #9 on: March 02 2011, 07:52:43 AM »
Not much of a mosquito problem here with several Martin houses in the neighborhood but if there was a problem I'd put up one or two of these
http://www.backyardbird.com/Bat-Houses_c_29.html
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« Reply #10 on: March 02 2011, 08:32:50 AM »
Quote from: "stevemon @ Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:52 am"
Not much of a mosquito problem here with several Martin houses in the neighborhood but if there was a problem I'd put up one or two of these
http://www.backyardbird.com/Bat-Houses_c_29.html


I need to get that done too. It would be a good project for the future step-son and I.
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« Reply #11 on: March 02 2011, 09:47:05 AM »
Last coupla years we've been invaded by stink bugs. It's amazing the places they flatten themnselves into and don't squish. It's nothing to change a cabin air filter and have 2-3 in the pleats. Damn things.
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« Reply #12 on: March 02 2011, 10:13:26 AM »
A week after it was 7 degs here, it was 80 and I have killed three wasps in the house....
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« Reply #13 on: March 02 2011, 10:22:35 AM »
Yep crazy weather. Snow just melted a few days ago and ant hills are popping up between the cracked cement. I blame Al Gore
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« Reply #14 on: March 02 2011, 10:43:51 AM »
I have issues with wasps. They love the eaves of my house, and my TR.

Bastards.
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