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jajeanpierre said:
Why are you sure there are a family of 5 falcons living in a park across the street? Are you talking about Kestrels? What kind of falcons? Do you have a picture of them?

I ask because it just doesn't sound like falcons to me. They don't live in family groups and they migrate. Birds of prey are really hard to identify--they are usually just a momentary flash of brown blur. I spend a lot of time trying to identify the birds of prey in my area--I'm really motivated because I fly my parrots outside. My raptor library exceeds my fairly extensive chicken library. They are just really hard to ID--miscellaneous brown with lots of variations in the color based on age, sex and color morphs to boot.

I would not think bantams are spookier than large fowl, and most are not particularly good flyers. I imagine some of the lighter breeds might be, but I doubt a bantam Cochin can fly well at all. Any chicken I have ever seen "flying" has flown like a clipped parrot--they do not a lot of lift. They can jump and then they can stay aloft for a bit, but they are on a downward trajectory. I have lots of live oak and a couple of the Polish and the Bantam Plymouth Rock like to get into the low branches. I have one Polish who does like to climb trees. She does not fly into them--she climbs them. She hops up onto a low branch and then climbs up the leaning trunk of a live oak. She still stays in the yard with my 4' fence around it. Most will try to get up in trees if they are roosting outside at night and don't have a coop to roost in, but as long as they have a coop, they'll go into a coop rather than a tree.
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I am sure they are falcons. My neighbor was talking to someone who tracks birds for some official reason and learned about them. I've seen them flying over but they are hard to photograph. It's a breeding pair and their 3 offspring. They are not Kestrels. I know them very well. One of my favorite birds. I may have a photo, but I am not sure. I need to get ready for church now, so I will look later.

I'll have a look into bantams more too.
 
hungnguyen said:
Yes I did. I also sent her another English song "Can't help falling in love" with imitation of Elvis' voice. Will post later.

We actually found each other via karaoke website. She sings very well and won a contest; she even sent me some English song .. quite impressed. I showed her some of my English songs. I can fool her easier with my English, but not quite competitive in VNese songs.
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What a nice story!
 
topdycke said:
MJA you could use your horse or home canning photos for avatar - it might be less likely that they would be lifted.
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It is because they will "own" all of the pictures and can do anything they want and you have no choice or compensation. I sell my pictures also.
 
Does anyone own the Red Star birds from MM? I have two and they are the sweetest birds. They are still young and haven't started laying but they are very quiet and they look like little old ladies in the face.
 
My brother in law lost his dog, Max, in a roll over accident about 2 weeks ago. We found Max about 3 days later on the side of the road, deceased. Not sure from injuries from accident or from being hit by a car.
 

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