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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GreenCloud on April 05, 2005, 02:10:28 PM
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ABSOLUTELY...BUEATIFUAL OUTSIDE!!!!
Ill be down at the Elk Grove Skatepark in 4 hours...for the next 2 hours ill be weed wacking
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Originally posted by GreenCloud
for the next 2 hours ill be weed wacking
DON'T INHALE!!!!
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Yeah it's great outside... get it while you can now... it'll be 100+ soon enough. :)
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You can always tell when it's spring in Northern Cali.
Working in the garden is taking your life in your hands. The hummingbirds start body slamming each other in your face or up against the back of your head. Get 3-6 of them going at it and you need to wear goggles to work.
I have one that follows me around the garden watching what I'm doing from about 2 feet away. Some mornings she watches me in the kitchen through a window. There are 3 others that patrol patches of flowers around the property. When we pass into their patrol areas all watermelon breaks loose. Besides boom and zoom body slams that sometimes miss and hit me, these tiny birds have big arse loud mouths when they get pissed. They hover up next to my ears and get enormously shrill at each other.
The males still havent shown up yet. These are all females. The males get terratorial about anything I do in the garden. It's alot of fun to be up on a ladder pruning bottle brush limbs when one of the males parks himself in front of my nose while my arms are over my head. He will hover about 3 inches from my face and threaten me if I move. Or if I'm working on the ground he will zoom my head doing flybys. The males will chase bluejays, attack finches on the bird feeders, and worst of all beat the crap out of my cat. I tried to separate them once because it was embarrasing to watch the cat loose. The hummingbird just switched to me and my cat hid under the porch.
If the cat is sitting in an open window, the hummingbirds will start flying at him. My bedroom window has a magnolia tree outside of it. Some times one of them will sit on branch and tease him by flying at the window, then going back to perching on a branch. Because of the screen the cat cant get at the hummingbird, he gets so frustrated he starts gurgeling and chirping like he's choking. Nice little birds........................ ..
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What's all that green stuff? :D
I got out last week for some geocaching...
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its temorary Sandy. In six to 8 weeks it willl all be yellow and nasty looking.
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Originally posted by bustr
You can always tell when it's spring in Northern Cali.
Working in the garden is taking your life in your hands. The hummingbirds start body slamming each other in your face or up against the back of your head. Get 3-6 of them going at it and you need to wear goggles to work.
I have one that follows me around the garden watching what I'm doing from about 2 feet away. Some mornings she watches me in the kitchen through a window. There are 3 others that patrol patches of flowers around the property. When we pass into their patrol areas all watermelon breaks loose. Besides boom and zoom body slams that sometimes miss and hit me, these tiny birds have big arse loud mouths when they get pissed. They hover up next to my ears and get enormously shrill at each other.
The males still havent shown up yet. These are all females. The males get terratorial about anything I do in the garden. It's alot of fun to be up on a ladder pruning bottle brush limbs when one of the males parks himself in front of my nose while my arms are over my head. He will hover about 3 inches from my face and threaten me if I move. Or if I'm working on the ground he will zoom my head doing flybys. The males will chase bluejays, attack finches on the bird feeders, and worst of all beat the crap out of my cat. I tried to separate them once because it was embarrasing to watch the cat loose. The hummingbird just switched to me and my cat hid under the porch.
If the cat is sitting in an open window, the hummingbirds will start flying at him. My bedroom window has a magnolia tree outside of it. Some times one of them will sit on branch and tease him by flying at the window, then going back to perching on a branch. Because of the screen the cat cant get at the hummingbird, he gets so frustrated he starts gurgeling and chirping like he's choking. Nice little birds........................ ..
These birds sound like a menace. Almost...rodent-like.
I hope you shoot them with a large gun.
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
its temorary Sandy. In six to 8 weeks it willl all be yellow and nasty looking.
It's okay... a year in Virginia taught me to appreciate the desert. ;)
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If you go walking in the Berkeley botanical gardens this time of year the Hummingbirds are everywhere. They go zooming by through the trees on the paths at chest to head level. Ive watched people get their hair moved as one cuts it close. End of April it calms down.
But untill then, well, cordelss drills outside sounds like a territorial challange or hey big boy come and get it to the males. Still not sure which. I was putting a sophit up on a house about 20 ft up on a ladder one year. Every time I pulled the trigger on the cordless, a male hummingbird came over and replyed to it. Got them all excited.:)
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a four hour tubing trip down the rio salado
without spf 9000 taught me to respect the dessert.
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Originally posted by JB88
a four hour tubing trip down the rio salado
without spf 9000 taught me to respect the dessert.
:aok
Bah... the sun is just as bright here as anywhere else. :)
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it just seems less likely to turn you into a 3 day old fishstick in less than an hour. something about it man...wicked wicked sky.
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You can always tell when it's spring in Northern Cali.
Are you referring to the bay area or the 350 or so miles of California that are actually North of that. When I think of NoCal, I think of Redding, Mt. Shasta, etc. Now that's the part of Cal I like.
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South bay near the Santa Cruz mountains, I spotted boobies.
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Bustr that hummingbird story reminds me of la7's! Glad southern Calif. is not that infested with them.
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While no were's near as nice as So. Cal we here in the high desert had it good today.
The wind finally quit but who knows for how long. We've been having 40+ MPH winds for the last week. at least with all the rain we've had for the past two months all the desert wild flowers are blooming.
I've been having fun landscaping my back yard and tilling up a flat spot for our pool.
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Where in the high desert are you Gunslinger? I'll be in Barstow around May 19-22 to visit my nephews. Are you going to the air show in Chino May 21-22? They're going to put up five P-47s from what I hear.
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Sigh It snowed here again last night ... OTOH it seldom ever gets to 90.
Weed whacking huh? How much more chain gang time do you have before your sentence is up. ;) :D :D :D
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Originally posted by 2stony
Where in the high desert are you Gunslinger? I'll be in Barstow around May 19-22 to visit my nephews. Are you going to the air show in Chino May 21-22? They're going to put up five P-47s from what I hear.
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I was thinking bout making it to Chino.
I live on Edwards AFB...Elevation 2580 ft.