Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[blueriver]

Can you picture a fat ol' guy trying to do layups?. . . don't try. It ain't pretty! I just shagged balls for my grandson and cheered him on.

I did not realize you have been watching us play ball ... yep I can imagine it. I no longer jump as high, shot any 3 pointers and have learned a free throw is a difficult task!!

 

[Western]

Can you picture a fat ol' guy trying to do layups?. . . don't try. It ain't pretty! I just shagged balls for my grandson and cheered him on.

The great things is the GS had a ball I'm sure, when he isn't looking you can collapse

I did not realize you have been watching us play ball ... yep I can imagine it. I no longer jump as high, shot any 3 pointers and have learned a free throw is a difficult task!!

If I have to try all that now, some one better be paying me for the "work":laughing: Actually I didn't play basketball, football and baseball heck yeah.

Jim, I noticed the seed price about 3 weeks ago at Lowes, so I bought the southern blend without the milo. I can get a 50# of milo pretty cheap for dove.

 

[jinman]

Jim, I noticed the seed price about 3 weeks ago at Lowes, so I bought the southern blend without the milo. I can get a 50# of milo pretty cheap for dove.

I've tried regular bird seed and my darn spoiled birds will dig out the sunflower seeds and any other dark seed and throw the lighter seeds on the ground. For some reason, they just don't seem to like the lighter seeds when there are dark one's mixed in. What's up with that? Anybody else notice this?

 

[Bird]

I've tried regular bird seed and my darn spoiled birds will dig out the sunflower seeds and any other dark seed and throw the lighter seeds on the ground. For some reason, they just don't seem to like the lighter seeds when there are dark one's mixed in. What's up with that? Anybody else notice this?

When we lived down in Navarro County, I quit buying any birdseed except the sunflower seeds since that seemed to be what they all wanted. But here I buy the Morning Song brand from Walmart and get a 40# bag of Year Round mixed seed and a 25# bag of Black Oil Sunflower seed at the same time and mix them. The Year Round mix has some sunflower seed, but I give it a lot more. However, I decided to stock up last Fall, so the two bags, one of each, cost me $35.80 on Nov. 14.

 

[Bird]

price was almost $30 for a 50 lb bag

I hadn't intended to go to Walmart this afternoon, but then I did, so I checked their price and it's now $18.44 for the 25# bag; double that to $36.88 and you're getting it for less than $30. You're gettin' a bargain.

 

[txdon]

I do the same thing Bird, I add extra sunflower seeds for the cardinals. Jim I put out 1/2 gallon of seeds in the feeder every morning and every bit is gone the next day, the white, red and black. I do have a group of tiny birds that might be getting the white and red.

 

[Bird]

Don, I'm not sure if I'm putting out quite that much. I have about 3 squirrels that visit each day, occasionally a cardinal, lots of very small birds during the middle of the day, and the biggest doves I've ever seen in the evening.

40 lbs. of the seed mix is a dollar cheaper than 25 lbs. of the sunflower seed.

 

[Western]

Don, I'm not sure if I'm putting out quite that much. I have about 3 squirrels that visit each day, occasionally a cardinal, lots of very small birds during the middle of the day, and the biggest doves I've ever seen in the evening.

40 lbs. of the seed mix is a dollar cheaper than 25 lbs. of the sunflower seed.

Bird, The larger dove are probably White wings, they have really been moving North in the past few years, near the size of a pigeon!! I have had them in the fall/ winter for a few years now and brother they can eat, they will gorge on whole deer corn too....

Jim, I have been doing as Bird and Don by mixing extra Sunflower into the mix. I notice allot of the finch type will get the millet seed. No doubt that most prefer the sunflower if they can get'em open. I have seen what looks like a titmouse (sp) taking sunflower seeds into the trees and cracking them against the tree!! industrious fellers. Probably the nutrition along with the increased amount of oils in those seeds.

 

[Bird]

Dennis, I've wondered if these are White Wing Doves. When I was a kid, I heard that dove hunting was great sport and good eating, so I went out and shot a dove (mourning dove; the only kind we had) and I decided there wasn't enough meat there to be worth a shotgun shell, and I never shot another one.

 

[Western]

Dennis, I've wondered if these are White Wing Doves. When I was a kid, I heard that dove hunting was great sport and good eating, so I went out and shot a dove (mourning dove; the only kind we had) and I decided there wasn't enough meat there to be worth a shotgun shell, and I never shot another one.

In a way your right, if you only get a couple you aren't going to have a cookout!! Get the breast of 20+ and you can throw together a great meal. Best way I have had them is , piece of cheese with Jalapeño then wrapped with bacon and thrown on the grill. Not worth the effort for a few thought.

Like most hunting, it sure isn't to save $ on the harvest.

Also, if they are White wings, you should be able to see a small strip of white on there wing .