Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

The blue jays here love to make a mess throwing bird seed everywhere

 

[daugen]

The blue jays here love to make a mess throwing bird seed everywhere

same here
my sunflower seed is all the same.
none are any better even to a bird
so makes sense to take one and fly off.
No, they fling them around, like they are looking for something they aren't finding, and then flinging seed
out to their buddies.

too much seed on the ground now. Time to cut back on the feeders and let them clean up their own mess.
I need to take leaf blower and blast it all out

I also need to take my mint spray and spray underneath my barbecue grill.
neighbor's cat comes over and hides under there, then springs out at ground feeders.
found feathers yesterday,
like deer spray, apparently cats don't like peppermint, anything with strong smell

I know where that cat is coming from
maybe I should retaliate by constantly throwing catnip over the fence and
keeping the cat stoned...

 

[Thomas]

72F cloudy mid 80's for high good chance late afternoon t storms.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...take trimmer for walk,afternoon if not raining mow main lawn if unable mow lawn Friday,other than that just putter.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Looking4new]

Took a lot of bird seed to train one Blue Jay.

Blue jays and Gray Jays (Whiskey Jacks) are almost untrainable.

 

[plowhog]

Good morning!

Let Rigby out at 4:15am and smelled smoke. Then I remembered the wind was supposed to shift and blow the smoke from the Park fire toward us in Nevada. It did.

Can you believe some idiot purposely caused the fire? It's raging out of control. One person responsible for incredible destruction.

It's a smoky 60F here, going to a smoky 95F. Everyone have a great day!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/us/park-fire-paradise-california-chico/index.html

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 71 to start going to 82, with on and off rain ! I see that northern Vermont was hit very hard with heavy rain and flooding! Looks like it will be a drive in the rain today.

Ron, nice blue Jay pic today !

I don't bother to even try to control my mouth. If I thinks it, I says it.

Bill, at 6’5” you can get away with that ! I have to be a bit more cautious!

Work not too bad yesterday, got out at 2:30 in the afternoon and came home for a nice dip in the pool with a couple of the grands ! It was hot and sticky though !

We’ll time to get going, have a good day everyone!

 

[ronjhall]

The blue jays here love to make a mess throwing bird seed everywhere

That’s why I have cleanup crews. Cranes, Turkeys, Doves, Deer and other critters.

 

[wngsprd]

74 and already a steam bath out there.

Been cleaning up after the bear "attack" last night. Bent heavy duty shepherd hooks, 3 feeders broken beyond quick repair, 3 others damaged and back into service quickly. I gotta give it to Wild Birds Unlimited feeders...expensive, but very good quality. I've got some game cards to check. Ron, good clean up crew.

Plow, sounds like Rigby's really growing up...going to school. What type of training will she receive there? I've been training with the same commands as you, but use Whoa instead of Stay...leftover from my days training quail dogs...also working on Come...Della had it perfect, then started slipping when she discovered wildlife distractions.

She still responds well using her kibble as treats, but I've added tiny pieces of carrot and apple as super treats. Today, she has what I believe is her last puppy vet visit for a while.

Great list of concerts...they bring back great memories. My first one was seeing the Animals...House of the Rising Sun was so popular. Best concert was Itzhak Perlman (love concert violin), most fun was either John Prine with Poco, or Peter Frampton several years ago, or George Strait. Have seen the Wailers maybe a dozen times, always a blast. Still want to see Del McCoury.

Built a pallet frame for firewood yesterday, and already have filled it up. Need to build another.

Send rain!

 

[wngsprd]

Thomas, I need you to train Big Boss to be nice like Boo.

 

[gstrom99]

same here
my sunflower seed is all the same.
none are any better even to a bird
so makes sense to take one and fly off.
No, they fling them around, like they are looking for something they aren't finding, and then flinging seed
out to their buddies.

too much seed on the ground now. Time to cut back on the feeders and let them clean up their own mess.
I need to take leaf blower and blast it all out

When I was still back in Illinois, I had to switch to sunflower "hearts". The birds would open the up the seed and the grass all around the feeder was being killed by the leftover sunflower husks. I took my wet/dry vac and vacuumed it all up from the lawn. I bet it looked weird to the neighbors. (not that I cared)