I went to a Summit Metro Parks event “Earth Day Bird Feeding” and fed a few birds from my hand.
Continue reading post "#4004"bird posts
Very cold and windy today. Woke up with it around 8 degrees and it just went down from there. -1 was the coldest I saw on a thermometer.
Snow on the ground, not a lot except in drifts. Not enough to shovel but enough for several plow visits.
Continue reading post "#3918"Needing to get out of the house, I went on a short hike this evening on the Dogwood trail.
Continue reading post "#3199"I’m glad the temperatures have warmed back up and we have spring-like weather again.
Continue reading post "#2859"It’s snowing today after some fairly solid spring-like weather.
Continue reading post "#2282"Bird rescue attempt
Today (yesterday), I spent around three hours getting a bird detached from a tree in the back yard. It was just hanging there from its leg, and it was hard to tell how it was attached. It was pretty high up and not reachable with any pole-like implements we had available from my ladder. My roommate helped for a while, but had to leave for work. I eventually succeeded in getting the bird down using two ropes, one put in place by throwing with a Kong dog toy on the end, the other raised with a garden tool tied to a stick. The ladder wasn’t entirely stable with the long combined pole, and the rope-throwing took many tries. I used the rope to break the branch, causing the bird and branch to fall. The branch was still alive, so the operation took a while even after I got both ropes in place. I set up some yard-waste bags and a towel below the bird to soften its landing.
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