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madmike
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Joined: July 11, 2005
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Location: Atlanta,Michigan
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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 4:59 am Post subject: Happy New Year |
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Everybody have a Good one 
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oprn
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Location: Western Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:23 am Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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I will second that from the frozen north! May all your breaks this year be in the traffic, not broken limbs or car parts!
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madmike
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Location: Atlanta,Michigan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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Question Merv, Like what kind of birds u counting? I like the avatar 'Northern Flicka' or a Yellow Belly Sap Sucker?
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Bonesberg55
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Joined: January 18, 2012
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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Happy New Year to all!
I plan to eat more chicken fried steak and rib eyes this year.
I've already kept that resolution as I had chicken fried steak for lunch. |
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oprn
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Joined: November 13, 2016
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Location: Western Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 1:57 pm Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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| Question Merv, Like what kind of birds u counting? I like the avatar 'Northern Flicka' or a Yellow Belly Sap Sucker? |
That's a Western Meadowlark.
In Canada every year various clubs/groups/associations, usually wildlife oriented do a winter/Christmas bird could, compile all the results and send them in to Ottawa for statistical records of bird populations across the country. We identify and count every bird we see within a pre-determined area.
I have no idea why it is done in the winter as is excludes all migratory species but I guess someone smarter than me has a reason. Simpler on the counting end as there are not many to count compared to summer.
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iowegian 
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Joined: February 16, 2005
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Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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| oprn wrote: |
| madmike wrote: |
| Question Merv, Like what kind of birds u counting? I like the avatar 'Northern Flicka' or a Yellow Belly Sap Sucker? |
That's a Western Meadowlark.
In Canada every year various clubs/groups/associations, usually wildlife oriented do a winter/Christmas bird could, compile all the results and send them in to Ottawa for statistical records of bird populations across the country. We identify and count every bird we see within a pre-determined area.
I have no idea why it is done in the winter as is excludes all migratory species but I guess someone smarter than me has a reason. Simpler on the counting end as there are not many to count compared to summer. |
Do you have to count the frozen birds? |
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oprn
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Location: Western Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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The snow usually covers them but one team did report finding a dark eyed Junko sitting upright on the snow bank beside the road. They were puzzled that it did not fly away and turns out it was frozen stiff where it was sitting. I didn't think to ask them if they included it in their total...
True story! 
I know you asked this in jest but it is a mystery to me how that all those little birds that weigh a 1/2 of an ounce with legs the size of toothpicks can live out there at -35* and a -50 wind chill! Yet when the snow melts in the spring it is rare to find dead ones.
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Bonesberg55
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Happy New Year |
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Happy New Year to all!
I plan to eat more chicken fried steak and rib eyes this year.
I've already kept that resolution as I had chicken fried steak for lunch. |
Had a ribeye on Wednesday. |
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