Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Thank you for that. That is how I see most raptors. So all the talk of red underbelly or wing shape us lost on my. They are all just big birds against blue sky. And now I can’t reliably look up to take a picture or study them without feeling dizzy!

I'm sorry you are still not feeling well. Did they give you any idea how long this could take to resolve itself?

 

[rural mouse]

Storm looks wonderful. On a side note, those are the same barrels I like to use for my tomatoes.

2 were here when we bought the place, 2 we moved from the old place. first summer here, put tomatoes in them. deer came along and didnt just eat the green tomatoes, they ate the whole plant: chewed off about an inch above the dirt! This year, had bachelor buttons in them (reseeded from last year). Deer left those alone, but the chickens have been nibbling the seed heads. Had Roman chamomile in them 2 we moved. Those keep reseeding and spreading (good), and the deer sample but don't eat every bit of those. Geraniums in them have to be fenced off or get eaten, but snapdragons are left alone. im learning....through trial and error. fencing worked to keep the deer off the geraniums last year, so going to have to try that again with the tomatoes next summer. Maybe I'll finally get a crop...especially with all the chicken fertilizer and aeration work done over the winter.

Edit: how many tomato plants per tub?

 

[BY Bob]

I’ve had a bird of prey visit at night..View attachment 2895939

Great photo!

 

[rural mouse]

Is that the same person, who owns a pipe stretcher?

No, that would be the warp remover.

 

[rural mouse]

You two and all your car talk. I am NOT a vehicle person. Could not care less as long as it RELIABLY gets me where I need to go with a reasonable degree of comfort. My little brother, on the other hand, is totally into it. He even designs and builds custom high performance parts! His very first vehicle was a ‘76 (?) refurbished Buick Skylark that had been my uncles’s. He just loves building up and driving muscle cars.

I don't know all that much about cars either. I do know about muffler bearings, blinker fluid, and the 710 cap. (All fictitious things, well, the 710 is oil upside down).

 

[BY Bob]

I'll try to explain then.
For some reason; we could examine the reasons at a later date, if one writes a post that contains much more than a sentence, let alone a few paragraphs, it has become the done thing it seems to apologise for writing something that may require more than half a seconds worth of concentration on the part of the reader.
Part of the problem, as you mention, is people are using mobile phones which are not suitable for writing more than a bit of predictive text style posts and responses. This imo greatly diminshes the power and joy of communictaion.
There are a number of posters who are notorious for this. What's more, these posters are in general on threads that have nothing to do with chickens; essentially their posts are just noise, but it's noise that gets clicked and liked.
I won't point you to the threads or posters.
I'm rather fond of language and I like to read posts with relevant and informmative content, especiially if it's a well reasoned response that contests a post I've made.
Some of this is due to people, as you point out, rushing about trying to do too many things in a limited time. I'm a bit old school with the view that if one is going to bother at all, concentrate on the task at hand and try to make a good job of it.
The answer for me is probably not to go and read these threads and put the worst offenders on ignore.
So, your posts for example with your lovely videos and your descriptions of what you observe in your flock I enjoy reading.
I would rather just click the like button than respond in print to every post.
For someone like By Bob, or any other thread host things are not that simple. To keep the thread alive thread hosts are more or less obliged to respond. It's part of whhat makes a thread popular and it's one of the reasons I don't host my own thread.
So, my original post to Bob was a bit of a dig at, a) modern technoology in particular the mobile phone which I detest, b) a bit of a dig at some of the "leading lights" on BYC who I doubt could write a full paragraph if their life depended on it, c) a further dig at the number of posters who arrive on BYC demanding instant attention and solution to their problems who don't seem to realise that those here with the knowledge and willingness to help are not called Siri or Google annd have other things to do in their lives other than answer their questions whch can usually be answered by using the search function on the site and reading (oh my how awful is this!) a few paragraphs.

Now I have to go to the computer again!

 

[rural mouse]

Thank you for that. That is how I see most raptors. So all the talk of red underbelly or wing shape us lost on my. They are all just big birds against blue sky. And now I can’t reliably look up to take a picture or study them without feeling dizzy!

The sad is for the dizzy. if they're close enough, wing shape, tail shape, head shape (or rather neck length), the way the wings move, where feet are held all can help with id the bird. Most hawk like birds are hard to id if they're circling high/gliding on the air currents. There are no reference points to help judge distance, let alone size.

 

[BY Bob]

Breakfast with the Phyllistines

Enjoy @MaryJanet

 

[rural mouse]

I’ve had a bird of prey visit at night..View attachment 2895939

Beautiful pic!

 

[rural mouse]

This may help the next time you need to change your oil.

Priceless!