From: "Rich Gauszka" 

in case you miss him

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/naturesongs/piwo1.wav/view
.html


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> We had one of those pileated woodpeckers in our neighborhood way way back
> when, he was one loud s.o.b.! 
>
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
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>>I haven't seen my pair of Blue Bird's at all this year, guess someone
>> probably got one of them  (I had a pair that nested outside my work
>> window for the last 3 years or so.)
>>
>> I did get a batch of Cardinals just outside my front door at home this
>> year, these guys really leave the nest quickly! (+3 also)
>>
>> I blocked up where the Doves were nesting this year, it got to be too
>> much of a mess to clean up -- 3 batches each year for the last 3 years
>> and their droppings on my porch was enough to tell them to move on.
>>
>> One very special things about South Carolina is quantity and quality
>> of the fauna!
>>
>> I got to see my first Pileated Woodpecker a few months ago. A Pileated
>> Woodpecker is a very large (2nd's largest Woodpecker), pretty close to
>> crow or raven sized and not a beauty to look at -- very primitive
>> looking)
>>
>> He was digging bugs out of a neighbor's tree -- it's quite amazing
>> just how efficient he was in knocking chunks of wood out of that tree.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> at all thisOn Thu, 10 May 2007 11:37:30 -0400, Richard B.
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:11:23 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.nypost.com/seven/05102007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/duty_to_the
_future_opedcolumnists_rupert_murdoch.htm
>>>>"TODAY, I am announcing our intention to be
carbon-neutral, across all
>>>>our
>>>>businesses, by 2010. "
>>>>
>>>>I give up .
>>>
>>>Lemmings are proof that evolution is indeed theory.
>>>
>>>I bet we were "carbon neutral" if not carbon--surplus
long before the
>>>nitwits even started the current fear-mongering.
>>>
>>>Btw, my bluebirds raised their first family of the spring and have
>>>flown away...waiting to see if they nest again.  Got some tasty
>>>mealworms in the refrigerator if anyone is hungry.  One of the cats
>>>killed a cedar waxwing that apparently was visiting the possum dish in
>>>the bushes, circle of life, but +3. 
>>>
>>>- Richard
>
>

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