COLD DARK ROOM

[DE42]

Sounds like fun, good luck on the #Bustard sightings...

I know a few great bustards.... Well change the second letter to a different vowel.

 

[Yvonne G]

Looks like it might be in the turkey family.

 

[Bee62]

Such a handsome fellow! [emoji7]

Thank you Bea !

 

[Bee62]

That doesn't sound like spring! [emoji22]

Spring is often a little bit skittish in Europa !

 

[Moozillion]

Wow...after a long cold below average temp Winter to Spring... two days here back-to-back of 85 degree F days (30C) has us pooped working in the garden. The high temps have also brought the quick demise of our Spring flowering daffodils. We found a few hidden in our shaded woods that needed a quick pick!

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WOW!!!!! Those are GORGEOUS!!!!

 

[Moozillion]

She won 2nd place in chemistry for all grades. 4th-8th
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WOW!!!!! That's FANTASTIC!!!!

 

[Moozillion]

More about Great Bustards
http://greatbustard.org/
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LOVED that video, Linda!!! What a GREAT project to bring them back from extinction in the UK!!!!!!!!!
I really like the sound that those juveniles make! But I agree: he'd better steer clear of Fergus!

 

[Kristoff]

She won 2nd place in chemistry for all grades. 4th-8th
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Wow! Well done, young scientist! You must be one proud uncle on her account!

 

[Kristoff]

A good evening from me.

Tomorrow we head to to Salisbury Plain (where Stone Henge is)

We are going on a special trip to try to see Great Bustards. These birds are very scarce and there is a small colony in the middle of the military zone on the plain. My daughter bought us tickets as a present for a special tour (on a day when the army isn’t practicing) to go and see them.

Today daughter and her friend got the keys to the flat they’re renting together. So we have filled our car with furniture (it’s a Volvo Estate car - station wagon type thing) and other items. We will take those to her flat after the trip.

Then JoesDad will come home and I am staying until Tuesday. The girls have arranged a number of deliveries for Monday, so I am staying there and answering the door. Not exactly riveting, especially as they have no internet yet, but I have paperwork to wade through for a meeting on Thursday. I’ll go home by train on Tuesday.

Interesting name... Good luck sighting them. And the delivery men afterwards! I hear they’re also quite rare, especially when you’re waiting for them...

 

[JoesMum]

Spring is often a little bit skittish in Europa !

Some of us call it consistently unreliable

I’ll settle for skittish though [emoji23]

 

[JoesMum]

Just had a bright idea to keep the cats out of the Cotoneaster where the Robins nest. Pyracantha has viscous thorns and we have two. I end up pruning loads off them every year. From now on, the prunings are going under the Cotoneaster. Biological cat control [emoji3]

To be honest I was thinking of razor wire and then had a more environmentally friendly brainwave [emoji23]

 

[JoesMum]

Just had a bright idea to keep the cats out of the Cotoneaster where the Robins nest. Pyracantha has viscous thorns and we have two. I end up pruning loads off them every year. From now on, the prunings are going under the Cotoneaster. Biological cat control [emoji3]

To be honest I was thinking of razor wire and then had a more environmentally friendly brainwave [emoji23]

Or even vicious thorns[emoji849]

Darned autocorrect!

 

[Bee62]

Just had a bright idea to keep the cats out of the Cotoneaster where the Robins nest. Pyracantha has viscous thorns and we have two. I end up pruning loads off them every year. From now on, the prunings are going under the Cotoneaster. Biological cat control [emoji3]

To be honest I was thinking of razor wire and then had a more environmentally friendly brainwave [emoji23]

Razor wire is not cruel to my opinion. It don`t really harm an animal but the learning effect is high !
I use razor wire for my sheep and for the chicken to keep foxes away from them.
As you know I own a lot cats. I don`t want that they leave my properperty so I build a high wire fence around a major part of my garden. At the upper end of the fence I use a razor wire. When one of my cats climb the fence they get in contact with the razor wire. They learn that the fence will "bite" them if they want to leave the garden and cats learn quick. I never saw one of my cats trying to leave more than 3 times.

 

[Bee62]

Or even vicious thorns[emoji849]

Darned autocorrect!

 

[Bee62]

 

[Bee62]

 

[Bee62]

To all:

 

[CarolM]

Wow...after a long cold below average temp Winter to Spring... two days here back-to-back of 85 degree F days (30C) has us pooped working in the garden. The high temps have also brought the quick demise of our Spring flowering daffodils. We found a few hidden in our shaded woods that needed a quick pick!

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Those are besutiful. Pity that you had to puck them so quickly. You should dry them between two pieces of paper in a book. You could then make a book mark with it.

 

[CarolM]

A good evening from me.

Tomorrow we head to to Salisbury Plain (where Stone Henge is)

We are going on a special trip to try to see Great Bustards. These birds are very scarce and there is a small colony in the middle of the military zone on the plain. My daughter bought us tickets as a present for a special tour (on a day when the army isn’t practicing) to go and see them.

Today daughter and her friend got the keys to the flat they’re renting together. So we have filled our car with furniture (it’s a Volvo Estate car - station wagon type thing) and other items. We will take those to her flat after the trip.

Then JoesDad will come home and I am staying until Tuesday. The girls have arranged a number of deliveries for Monday, so I am staying there and answering the door. Not exactly riveting, especially as they have no internet yet, but I have paperwork to wade through for a meeting on Thursday. I’ll go home by train on Tuesday.

Sounds quite a full few days. Congratulations to your daughter and her friend. And good luck wading through the paperwork.

 

[CarolM]

More about Great Bustards
http://greatbustard.org/
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Looks like a brown turkey (I think) lol. What's the purple on the bird in the pic? Is it a tag?