[birdky] Re: Bird watchen
- From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hickstickshomerbuford@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:32:59 -0500
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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