The Birds Are Not Being Wiped Out

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...which will make them show quite some human behaviour as they quickly adapt to the 'welfare' service... getting their little a**es up less, loosing endurance and ability to struggle... and in the end, once further service is refused, most of them are bound to premature death :cry: :o
don't wanna quote any parallelism here - it's all fine anyway ... :D

back to the birds, I'd rather knew the button to switch off their early-morning-territory-proclamation-terror... no less than about 20 species around here in the garden.
They are quite interesting to watch, fighting for the best places to breed, following schedules... the same swarm (btw made up by more than a single species) will be found at a certain area during a certain time. They seem to be real fast learners when it comes to take advantage of their environment or changes there in.

cheers, Tom
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see stardust, sometimes we agree...
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hopefully the crown of evolution is an irony, isn't it ? :D :P
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yeah, that sh*t's pretty corny and speaks to an ego problem, but i wasn't going there..... :lol:

i just liked the last sentence. it's hopeful.
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garyb wrote:so?

i'm not crazy if they're really after me... :lol:

bwahahahahahahahaha :lol:

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stardust wrote:
garyb wrote:yeah, that sh*t's pretty corny and speaks to an ego problem, but i wasn't going there..... :lol:

i just liked the last sentence. it's hopeful.
As we speak....only sometimes.
sure, that's enough for me to love and respect you as a fellow human. i would never withhold food water and shelter in an emergency just because we disagree! :lol:
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Tom wrote .


...which will make them show quite some human behaviour as they quickly adapt to the 'welfare' service... getting their little a**es up less, loosing endurance and ability to struggle... and in the end, once further service is refused, most of them are bound to premature death.........

There's some assumptions here
1 once I am unable to continue the welfare service no one else will take it up.
thats wrong ...in fact I am just one of a long line of people who have done this .
2 I can assure you that the birds I feed can all be seen and heard at and before dawn getting their little asses up . The hunting and gathering proceeds at pace all day . All I'm doing is compensating for the loss of hunting grounds .

All you're doing Tom is parroting the dogma handed down by people who really cant be fucked to do anything . The same sort of people who dont allow dogs into national parks because someone said their faeces promoted weed growth :o . Funnily enough I KNOW the bloke who came up with that little gem and I can tell you that a.) he now admits it was wrong and b.) he's a right prat .

Jeez people love their little rules don't they ,they make life so easy dont they . Just spit up the currently accepted dogma and it's win win win. You dont have
to do anything , you get that lovely warm feeling of being in the club ,plus the added ability to look down on everyone else .
And one more thing... they are ALL bound for premature death anyway . Such an aristocratic argument Tom . :cry:
It reminds me of a Fillipino rich bitch I met at a party saying "oh my people aren't ready for democracy yet " Well my feathered friends are ready for their dinner everynight and in fact I'm off to the supermarket to buy it right now or perhaps you'd prefer it if I wove a cane and rafia fishing net and fashioned a couple of spears and bows and arrows... tucked 'em in my cod pouch and went hunting . So much more NATURAL :roll:
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well, maybe it's the difference in latitude...
at least I can assure you that a lot of birds in Germany lost their ability to survive a winter on their own, because they completely turned to human supplied food where available. They forget about their inherited knowledge...

but it wasn't really my intention to point on your personal habit in the first place - it was more about the hidden ambiguity in a supposedly well meant action - a symbol so to say.

I understand very well that you regard them as friends, even if I make sarcastic jokes about bird's noise from time to time.
The little minerva owl that used to pass by several times a night is missing for sometime now. A kingfisher (sometimes a couple) crosses the valley at regular intervals in the morning and early evening and I know his/her favourite locations outside of town. It's a great view as they often choose to fly exactly parallel in height to my window (we're on a hillside).
The artificial hole in the apple tree is habited by a nuthatch this year and I'm probably the only one in the neighbourhood who noticed the wren's nest in the hedge near the garage.

I'd be the last to not support birds during an extra hard frostbite and I always found it amusing to see the robins check for cookie crumbs once most climbers had left the abandoned quarry. And btw I'd never carelessly step on a bug or a spider if it crosses my way, as I wouldn't clutch a fly or a wasp at the garden table.

cheers, Tom
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No these birds aren't migratory Tom . They just hang about and occasionally bugger off for a while . No great weather extremes here although we did have a cold wet summer just like we had in '63 or 4 after a long drought . I may well murder the next person who says "still we need it " after 10 wet cold weekends in a row . We've had 2 lots of sulphur crested cockatoos hatch in the gum tree alongside the balcony and one lot of lorikeets .they seem to decide who is going to breed this year and move in ,arthur and martha the lorikeets are currently in residence so they could be about to do it again but I cant hear anything yet . 3 new baby Kookaburras this year , you can tell they're babies because they look bigger and "skwawk" when they swallow the mincemeat . Kookaburras are the worlds biggest Kingfishers you know , you cant have unprotected fish ponds around here unless you want to watch a couple of Kookaburras bashing your fish to death on a rock . The upside is they eat snakes too
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