Post #248,215
3/17/06 9:46:26 AM
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I've seen that too, but it was a male mallard.
A pair was hanging out in our back yard for a week or so a couple of years ago. The male occasionally would perch on the peak of the roof.
A neighbor down the street had a great blue heron (a big bird) on his roof once.
Crazy birds... :-) But pretty.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who's seen a (red tailed?) hawk in the neighborhood recently. Perhaps it'll help reduce the squirrel population a little.)
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Post #248,225
3/17/06 10:48:27 AM
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Great Blue Herons
I see about three or four of those a year up here. Grey herons are more common, though.
Beautiful animals.
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Post #248,239
3/17/06 12:09:33 PM
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Had a nesting duck in my flowerbed 3 years running
I had to lay a ramp down from the railroad ties holding in the raised flower bed so the ducklings could get back in after their daily walks over to the golf course waterways.
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Post #248,241
3/17/06 12:15:18 PM
8/21/07 6:42:07 AM
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There was one that visited the marina I lived in near SF
and I've seen another one here. They like marinas as they are labrynthine, lots of little runways, and tasty shellfish everywhere.
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Post #248,243
3/17/06 12:19:58 PM
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Mostly I see them on the lakes around here
There are many lakes on the Canadian Shield, and I'm about fifteen miles south of the southern edge of it (or fifteen miles west of it, depending on how you look at it;).
A friend has a cottage on a lake about forty-five minutes north of here, and I go there for a cottage party there in the summer (four days, four bands, lotsa good times). That's when I see most of the herons that I see, as they are all over the place. You will find their regurgitated fish bones all over the place up there.
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Post #248,252
3/17/06 1:13:02 PM
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Hawks
(Who's seen a (red tailed?) hawk in the neighborhood recently. Perhaps it'll help reduce the squirrel population a little.) I see those all the time, they freak out my parakeet though, if he's near the window when they swoop down. Brenda
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Post #248,269
3/17/06 1:52:25 PM
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Hawks sure don't eat the squirrels around here . . .
. . even though they're overpopulated and hungry. They'll eat my pigeons if they can get one, but squirrels they won't touch. On the other hand, my "early retirement plan" for squirrels has been effective.
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Post #248,363
3/17/06 10:04:56 PM
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blue herons
we have a [link|http://www.chilliwackblueheron.com/|Blue Heron reserve] just down the road from us. I often see them in the fields and irrigation ditches by the road on my way to work.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #248,365
3/17/06 10:18:08 PM
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Neat. We've got a good place to see them too. .img
[link|http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/huntley/|Huntley Meadows] is just a few miles down the road.
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Cheers,
Scott.
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