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Post by bjd on May 17, 2024 18:15:37 GMT
A thrush just slammed into the window beside me. Second one today. This morning's bird looked a bit stunned but went away after a few minutes. This evening's bird knocked itself out. It was lying on its back so I went and turned it over. It finally managed to raise itself onto its feet but 10 minutes after the accident, it is still standing there and breathing with difficulty -- sort of throbbing.
It's not that my windows are especially clean. Don't birds see the frames and that they are set into a house?
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Post by lugg on May 17, 2024 18:54:46 GMT
I hate when that happens Bjd - especially when theyleave an imprint on the glass
Whatagain - is your cat still alive ? Hope so.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 17, 2024 19:52:36 GMT
Happened to us last weekend and left a fantastic imprint on the glass. There was quite a thump and the poor bird must have had a big headache.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 17, 2024 20:05:28 GMT
Don't birds see the frames and that they are set into a house? They must be seeing a reflection in the glass & believe that they're flying into open ground. I was told that if you have a stunned bird you should protect it from predators such as pets & to make water available to it.
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Post by bjd on May 18, 2024 5:38:54 GMT
The thrush managed to survive and got away although it took quite a while. It had crashed just in the place we drop breadcrumbs and a blackbird seemed to divebomb the thrush at one point. The thrush managed to move away so I knew it wasn't dead. It then sat up against the wall for a while longer but I didn't see it leave.
I didn't want to get close to the bird at all since I figured that if the crash hadn't killed it, the fear of a large human would. All I did was use a dustpan to flip it over onto its stomach.
Fortunately the neighbours' nasty cat is dead so I wasn't worried about predators. It wasn't a pleasant cat and killed a lot of birds.
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Post by whatagain on May 18, 2024 8:12:00 GMT
Hi Lugg.
Yes Miley is back home after 6 or 7 years… We keep her locked indoors to avoid that she runs away again. We feed her and cajole her but she is afraid of a lot of things. She starts feeling comfortable with our daughter though.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 19, 2024 20:29:27 GMT
Wow Whatagain that is amazing, what sort of condition is Miley in? I hope that she soon settles.
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Post by mich64 on May 20, 2024 18:45:27 GMT
I was able to log in and took that opportunity to read and see so many wonderful threads that have brought me so much happiness and interest. Wish I had the time to comment on them all! I hope to be back soon to participate more or to be able to just enjoy and take a breath. Life is quite challenging since our return from Barbados. Waving hello to everyone!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2024 20:36:32 GMT
Hello-ooooooo, Mich!
Hope all is well with you & yours & that your trip was wonderful. ❤️
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Post by whatagain on May 21, 2024 9:08:57 GMT
Great to read you Mich.
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Post by lugg on May 23, 2024 19:36:23 GMT
Waving hello to everyone! Waving back at you Mich - wow Barbados - would love to know more... Whatagain ...so glad that Miley is safe x
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2024 6:30:00 GMT
Got a new car. Peugeot 508. Hybrid. Even better than the Mercedes I had. Feeling like a schoolboy with a new gear going to school for the first.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2024 11:12:42 GMT
Need help from UK guys. Will be in the region of Manchester on 3rd June. I can either sleep in York (I love the city, been several times) or Manchester (been twice like it never slept there) or Leeds (never been at all). What would you recommend?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 24, 2024 20:13:22 GMT
I don't know if it's already been mentioned but the actors have been announced for Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club being directed by Steven Spielberg. Helen Mirren as Elizabeth, Celia Imrie as Joyce, Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim and Piers Brosnan as Ron. The latter being the only one I'm not sure about...I'd have cast Ray Winstone as Ron...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 24, 2024 20:15:19 GMT
Need help from UK guys. Will be in the region of Manchester on 3rd June. I can either sleep in York (I love the city, been several times) or Manchester (been twice like it never slept there) or Leeds (never been at all). What would you recommend? York. No question....altho I've never been to Manchester or Leeds... so maybe ask a more experienced traveller
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Post by whatagain on May 25, 2024 10:25:01 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2024 23:42:09 GMT
The weather forecasters are hyperventilating at the coming severe weather in the US. “DVD-sized hail”?
Softball-sized OK. 5” hail OK.
But DVD-sized? Are they flat-earthers?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2024 2:28:53 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2024 5:02:33 GMT
Has "grapefruit-sized" fallen out of fashion?
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Post by whatagain on May 26, 2024 17:24:18 GMT
Mammoth balls ?
The way we call some large ‘sucettes’ - Kerouac help me !
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Post by whatagain on May 26, 2024 17:58:29 GMT
My new car. I got 2 until I give back the Mercedes !
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Post by lugg on May 26, 2024 19:12:36 GMT
can either sleep in York (I love the city, been several times) or Manchester (been twice like it never slept there) or Leeds (never been at all). What would you recommend? I love York and you cannot really go wrong , but Manchester is my home city so if you have never stayed there I would opt for that . I dont know Leeds at all so cannot help there but if you opt for Manchester can help with the area.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 2, 2024 17:46:47 GMT
I'm off to Scotland tomorrow to stay with my niece, lots of charging about and visiting Scottish rellies I'm not taking my laptop nor my tablet so I won't be posting until I get back next weekend. Missing you already xxx
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2024 18:50:21 GMT
How dare you! You know we need you hare at all times.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2024 23:44:28 GMT
What HE said! pee ess ~~ have fun!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 4, 2024 4:17:30 GMT
Talk about a brain/eye disconnect. I was scrolling through my NYTimes Evening Newsletter when I came across the photo below. I kept scrolling in order to see the caption, as I wanted to know what movie the still was from. It shocked me to see that it is not a movie still, but a real photo from 1956. That's a time I remember perfectly well, just as I remember the way of life depicted in the picture. But being tricked by the picture shocked me because I'm usually on high alert for inaccuracies in shows purporting to reproduce a time and/or place I know well. So, momentarily believing that the real thing was a fake makes me worry about how our own memories might get colored by dramatizations of what we remember. Gordon Parks, “Department Store, Mobile, Alabama” (1956).Credit...
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Post by whatagain on Jun 4, 2024 7:48:00 GMT
Strange people in the UK. They gave me a strange car. I keep trying to open the left door but the wheel is on the right/wrong side and the stick is on my left side ! I hit the curb only 4 times so far with the left wheel. So far so good.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 4, 2024 8:04:20 GMT
I always went for the wrong side of the car in Australia. But in South Africa, Mauritius, Jersey and Malta I had no problem for some reason.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 4, 2024 8:49:00 GMT
This year, after 50 years of driving, I will have spent an equal number of years driving on the right as I had done on the left. I still though veer off to the wrong side when I'm trying to get in sometimes.
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Post by bjd on Jun 4, 2024 8:56:01 GMT
Last week my brother-in-law and his wife who live in Ireland came to visit. As they got into their car to leave, my first thought was, "Why is he getting into the passenger seat?"
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