[obol] Re: Fwd: Hooded Orioles: Advice from Nevada for palm tree growers
- From: Braz <brazzzle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: joel.geier@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:05:09 -0700
The problem, of course, is that regardless of whether or not it is true,
city folk are largely convinced that if
they leave the beards on their palm trees, then they will be overrun with
big city rats.
Mark Brazelton
Former big city dweller.
Hobby Birder
now residing in Medford, Oregon
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [From the NVBIRDS list, just by coincidence. I also noticed on a
> "cold-hardy palm trees" commercial website that, as of 2006, Coos Bay is
> now in the same USDA cold hardiness zone 9 that in 1990 included Los
> Angeles and most of the rest of the historic zone for Hooded Orioles in
> California).]
>
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:04:09 -0700
> From: Patrick Gaffey <pjgaffey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Don't skin your palms
>
> The first oriole of the season arrived this morning in our yard in
> Spring Valley, Las Vegas, a male Hooded. Bullock's used to be the
> dominant oriole here, but when the gigantic influx of palm trees began
> in the late eighties, that shifted the balance. Hooded orioles live in
> palm trees, and now we have an explosion of hooded orioles. By the end
> of last summer we had about a dozen orioles in our back yard, including
> a couple of Bullock's.
>
> Many people hire trimmers to skin their palms to the point of near death
> until they look ridiculous, shaved down to toothpick width near the top
> and crowned with a few lonely fronds. With the beard removed, there is
> no place for orioles to build their nests, and the so-called
> "trees" (palms are grasses) continue to look absurd for years. Enjoy our
> orioles and let your palms grow their beards!
>
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