[birdky] Re: Bird watchen

Homer,
Your posting is greatest thing going. I know, and others know, BP. I always wondered how he got to be an expert. Now I know. 

Come visit the slews. We gots a lotta dem birds.

Charlie
Hennersen counny.


On Apr 25, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Homer Buford Hicksticks wrote:
Howdy, I forgit what county I live in, but I believe it's somewhere in KY. I wanna report a pair of cowbirds nesting in my cedar tree,. They git really upset when I come by. When they fly they have a whistling sound. Their nest is bilt with sloppy sticks. I know they are cowbirds cause when I see them on the telephone wire they say Moo-ah-Moo-moo-moo. Almost sounds like an owl.
Anyway, I had a pair of chimney sweeps on my chimney. They hang around there all winter and they still hang around. I noticed in the winter their bill was black, probably from the soot of the chimney. Now the soot is fallen off their bill and speckles on their body are gone and they are prettier with a nice yellow sharp pointed beak. I have some barn martins that also hung around the barn all winter. The chimney sweep and the barn martin would come down and eat my bird seed. But there was a night hawk hanging around the tree trying to nab one of these birds.
I have all kind of peckerwoods in my back yard. I got one peckerwood, a little one, with a black crown and a bluish gray back that creeps down the tree. This must be a downy peckerwood. I have a wood hen hollerin in the woods. probably needs to find a woodcock to mate with.
I gotta bunch of whippoorwills callin in the holler. One whippoorwill doesn't even know it's own call. It says Pluck Your Fiddle! My grandpa spotted whippoorwills milkin cows.. He said one was milkin a cow on one udder while a cowsnake was milkin the other udder! One whippoorwill tried to milk Bozo the bull, and Grandpa said that bull aint never been the same.
Walkin down the gravel I see these Killdees. They act real funny, their wings hangin down, walkin funny. I think they musta got into ole Leroy's moonshine! I saw them Chickenhawks and crows were chasing them off. That's why they are called Chicken Hawks!
An old friend got me a martin house last year and these black birds tried to nest in it. These black birds were funny. They skimmed the lake to drink water and they have long pointed wings. I got my shotgun and shot them all cuz I don't want no funny lookin black birds at my martin house Unfortunately I destroyed the house. I bilt me a bluebird house and stuck some bread crumbs in the house to attrack the little blue birds as a house warmin gift, but they aint shown up!
The pond I have has this blue crane that hangs around there and it had a bunch a black chicks. They got the prettiest funny white bill. But when the black chicks walked on the grass, last winter, their feet were deformed. They had long skinny toes. I hope nobody put no disease in my pond!
The yellow canaries and the bluebirds finally come back. They musta taken a bath in muddy water, cuz some have brown on them! Buncha dumb birds!
I found some bald eagles eatin some possums on the road. I identified them as bald eagles cus they have no feathers on their head. Buzzerds were circling them.
It's funny I get these baby jaybirds that never grow up! They always grab a sunflower seed between their feet and eat them up! And the wren has a bib on it with black and white racing stripes on his head. It probly needs a white bib cuz it kicks up the birdseed and scatters it. 

Buncha barn owls keep hootin in my woods.
Just to let you know, I am the most expert birdwatcher this side of the Mississippi and maybe the other side. I taught Braynert Pommerboll everything he knows about birds! If anybody has any questions about birdwatchin just ask me! Git your field bincerlers ready. 

 Homer Buford.

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