Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

Erli....my SS are like Ralphies. Absolute sweethearts. Not too noisy. But can be talkative. And have been fine with all my other birds. They are my best foragers! They will spend hours in my garage hunting bugs. I hate you had a bad experience.
Chinook....unknown in the south. We usually refer to something like that as straight line wind!

They are beautiful birds Memphis, mine weren't much at foraging, they were talkative but in such a loud annoying voice.

 

[duluthralphie]

Erli....my SS are like Ralphies. Absolute sweethearts. Not too noisy. But can be talkative. And have been fine with all my other birds. They are my best foragers! They will spend hours in my garage hunting bugs. I hate you had a bad experience.
Chinook....unknown in the south. We usually refer to something like that as straight line wind!

The chinooks are straight line. The weather Nerd in me finds them amazing. The air losses moisture on the Pacific side of the mountain range as it is cooled by decreasing pressure as the molecules get further apart (by moving up the mountain). Once it tops the mountain the reverse happens. Like any gas as it is compressed the temperature of the gas (air) increases. Those winds warm the climate for people like R2elk.

Of course, this same process in reverse occurs when an system sneaks in from the south and does not go over the mountains. Then Cindy gets dumped on and winter weather.

Most winter weather comes from the NW in our hemisphere which gives them the milder winters (most years).


Weatherdork out.


@Bantambird you are so lucky to have a vet for a Mom!

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Only got to 77 not 87 yesterday due to clouds . Rained close by but missed me . Cloudy here .

 

[memphis]

Interesting Ralph....thanks!

Erli...I really think you need a couple sweet turkey hen lappers!!

 

[Cebarmlds]

My one sister can talk like a weather dork, she worked for the USFS dealing with planes, helicopters and fires. Interesting stuff.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Rainy here . I mowed yesterday evening as I knew the was coming .

 

[CindyinSD]

We have sunshine and green! And quite an oversupply of silvery wetness, but what’re ya gonna do? It’s not frozen anyway.

 

[bobbi-j]

We have sunshine and green! And quite an oversupply of silvery wetness, but what’re ya gonna do? It’s not frozen anyway.

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[Phage]

Morning . Rainy here . I mowed yesterday evening as I knew the was coming .

Do you mow to use the cut grass as feed, or to make it look neat?

 

[jerryse]

Do you mow to use the cut grass as feed, or to make it look neat?

Just neat .