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Yerboogieman
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 Posted - May 13 2010 : 09:29:29 AM
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We had a blue jay nest on top of out bay window so we put a camera above it.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/birdflu-tv |
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Yerboogieman
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Posted - May 13 2010 : 09:32:07 AM
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| There is sound and video. In the morning, you can hear a bunch of birds and sometimes the neighbor dogs. |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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wasssup1990
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A Land Down Under
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Posted - May 13 2010 : 09:53:04 AM
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| I was wondering where the slidebar was. Then I realised this was live. Pretty birdy. My budgies are going crazy. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
Edited by - wasssup1990 on May 13 2010 09:56:31 AM |
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Yerboogieman
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USA
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Posted - May 14 2010 : 6:07:03 PM
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| Yeah, since the camera doesn't have infared, we turn it off at night, then turn it on at about 0630 pacific time when I wake up. |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
Edited by - Yerboogieman on May 14 2010 6:08:43 PM |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - May 21 2010 : 01:13:41 AM
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| My blue jays are gone! They barely had feathers, how are they not there? We have had animals all around lately, but you would think there were remains or something. Looks like the nest was before the mother laid the eggs. I am pretty sad and mad if a hawk or a raccoon (God damned raccoons, I don't feel sorry for that blow dart to the eye. Oh yeah, I also shot a rat in the side yesterday. I hate raccoons so much.) What do you think happened? They didn't go in the road or anything. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - May 21 2010 : 08:58:36 AM
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| It's called nature. It happens all the time. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - May 22 2010 : 11:16:30 AM
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| Yeah, it was probably a raccoon. They won't leave much in the way of remains. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - May 22 2010 : 11:40:12 AM
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| Once apon a time... about 10 years ago I was out in the school yard when I saw a high speed chase between a crow and a seagull up in the sky. I lowered my eyes for a second and then I heard a bang and then a plop as the seagull hit a metal roof, bounced off, and landed almost in front of me. The crow had pecked the eyes of the seagull while it was flying. After that, as you would expect, the other school kids started poking and kicking the seagull. I walked away and the teacher collected the bird. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - May 22 2010 : 5:30:30 PM
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| Some people are so weird. Little kids scare me. |
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - May 24 2010 : 09:50:32 AM
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| But the stick poking is the best part! You can't buy that kind of fun. Unless you buy a hooker and then kill her, of course. |
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Aaron Cake
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Canada
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Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 09:40:31 AM
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Yesterday, the robin nest in the eves near my rear balcony fell down. I found out when I got home from work. It took a few minutes to round up the two babies, place the nest back, and toss the babies (not literally, they would try to fly which makes aiming hard) back in the nest. While the parents were quite unhappy about me picking up their children, they settled down after about an hour and started caring for them again.
This morning, just before work, the nest fell again. This time, one baby was obviously very healthy but the other was injured (it's never a good sign when they are on their back and twitching...). I put the nest in the corner of the balcony so it can't fall again and returned the babies while being dive-bombed by the parents. It looks like the healthy one is about ready to fly today or tomorrow, but the injured one probably won't survive.
Oh, and wild baby birds seem to be covered in tiny mites. That also like to burrow into human skin. And itch. |
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wasssup1990
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A Land Down Under
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Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 10:29:37 AM
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| I have heard that sometimes the parents won't return if they see or smell too much human or foreign contact with their babies. They feel their babies have been alienated and they fly away and never come back, or maybe just to observe. It has happened here before. We desperately tried to get the mother to come back and help her kid but I think she flew away and the baby died. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
Edited by - wasssup1990 on Jun 22 2010 10:30:17 AM |
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Yerboogieman
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USA
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Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 12:18:48 AM
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Yikes. I take it you got the tiny mites on/in your skin? Take a cigarette or match over them and they'll back out from the heat.
How did you try to get the mother back? That seems kind of hard. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
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Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 01:19:55 AM
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| Mites? I've seen people put cream over the wound and that suffocates the grub/mite, and when they come out for air you grab them. Man, this is totally out of tune for this kind of website. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 09:19:12 AM
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Apparently it is a myth that birds will abandon their young if touched by a person ( http://www.wildbirdcarecentre.org/english/rescuer.html ). They don't have a good enough sense of smell to tell. What causes issues is when the nest is disturbed/destroyed. Or when there is too much intrusive contact by another animal.
The robins seemed to deal with the nest moving to the balcony just fine. After only about 20 minutes, they were back feeding both babies. Now the healthy baby has basically left the nest and is hopping around the ground, guarded by the parents. This is expected behaviour. I have not checked on the injured one in a day, though it seemed much better on Tuesday.
As for the mites, it seems that birds have a much higher body temperature then humans, so the mites die off after a few hours. After a few hours I stopped itching. Better then a bot fly. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 09:24:19 AM
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| Ah I see. Maybe in my case the mother bird was weary of the dogs, that's why she stayed on the fence while the baby hopped around. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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My Blue Jay Nest Cam
