Lately at the cave we’ve had a male summer taninger by the front door. I think he’s lonely because he tried feeding a bug to is own image. One of the managers managed to get him to hop onto her finger, but most of us cannot get him to do that. I got close enough to try, but he flew away.
Earlier this spring there was a bird (a kind of finch, I think) trying to build a nest in the main cave entrance. I think he gave up after several times when we took the nests out. If he had not built them right where we enter, but had gone off the tour route he would have been fine.
Happy Birthday, Cheryl! It is a great month for birthdays as well as weddings!
Our temp began at 70° this morning. “Just right,” as Goldilocks would say.
I have a lot of cooking to do today, and lower temps outside make for a better cooking day inside. We will have storms later so best to cook earlier in case the power gets knocked out.
A supposed meteor fireball came down in Georgia yesterday. One home is being looked at for possible damage from it. Most of it burned up before it hit.
Maybe God is making a statement about bombs being dropped on His earth? “You humans think you know what bombs are; I’ll show you a real bomb!”
Mumsee asked of Jo late yesterday, how do you manage to alert yourself on your iPad or other device where to find your phone? Please, Jo, let us know what app you use. Is it possibly Lookout? I think I have that but have never utilized it.
Oh Tangiers are most lovely!! Such a gift to have them in the area. We have seen none this year.
The baby birds flew the nest this morning. The chickadees use the porch birdhouse every year and we are delighted with the baby chirping as we sit in the porch. We were blessed to watch their initial flight this morning. Cutest thing to watch them try out their wings!
Thanks, Jo. I discovered Lookout is for visually impaired people. It uses your phone camera to point and look at what is in front of you, and then it verbally describes it. I have not needed that much help so far, but good to know it is available.
But do we trust the phone camera and the programmer who set up descriptions? There are so many nuances the human brain processes in viewing something.
Yes, White Nose. There were 45 hibernating this year, up from a dozen or so that survived when WNS hit 10 years ago. But this time of year most bats roost outside, even during the day.
Maybe God is making a statement about bombs being dropped on His earth? “You humans think you know what bombs are; I’ll show you a real bomb!”
I chuckle when climate change devotees hype their rants, knowing that God is going to burn everything at the end, so there is no way we simple humans can or will destroy the planet.
Thank you for the birthday greetings! We got Chick fil-A and two of my brothers have called. I missed the call from my mother-in-law, and she’s supposed to call back around 2:00.
God gave me a sweet birthday gift this morning, something I have wanted to see since I was 10 or 12–a female cardinal on her nest.
I love tanagers, but have only seen scarlet (and only about three times), never summer.
I couldn’t find my phone last night and texted a friend (on my laptop) to call me. It was under my laptop.
I move around a lot working during the day and must have grabbed it when I moved the laptop from the back room to the front room where it landed under my laptop on the stand in front of the sofa.
Unfortunately, it all made Abby miss her walk since I couldn’t find it in time before it got too dark. … 😦
Happy birthday, Cheryl! I am glad you got to see the cardinal. Nature’s gifts are the best. We are currently enjoying the beautiful fuchsia colored blooms of the cholla cactus.
There is an app that allows you to clap or whistle to locate your phone if it is near enough to hear your designated noise. Some phones misinterpret something that sounds like a clap and turn on their alert/alarm location sound for the wrong reason.
Today I watched a kestrel chasing the songbirds around – I don’t think he caught his supper.
Son and the twins are coming to have a “work weekend at Grammy and Grandpa’s”. They are now 4 ½ and love, love, love to work hard. We’re going to make it so fun – moving a bit of gravel, some mulch, washing seedling pots and finding long saplings that we’ve already cut so they can clear a trail and build a lean-to and other fun things. They’ll be bringing their appropriately sized wheelbarrows and yard tools.
Usually I don’t expect to see the year’s fawns with their mothers until just about my birthday. Once in a while, I have one or two sightings before that, but usually it’s just about now. Well, this year we have two mamas who’ve had fawns in our neighborhood, so I thought the sightings might go up, and indeed they have. We had one fawn lying on grass (in the open) all day and all night, and half a dozen other sightings, but all of just a fawn, not the mother. (We’ve seen the mother separately once or twice in June.)
Tonight we took our late walk about 9:00 because today is the last of a weeklong string of 90-plus-degree days. We passed the spot where we saw a fawn yesterday, and then the spot where we’ve seen one two different days, and were turning the corner for the last block when I said, “Well, I guess the fawn doesn’t want to wish me happy birthday today.” And there ahead of us were a doe and fawn nibbling on a neighbor’s flower buffet. The doe has been watching us for at least two years, but it was dusk and this was her first encounter with us with this year’s fawn, so she walked forward to move away. And her fawn ran to catch up with her, and nursed. In my experience, does will only allow newborns to nurse when people are near, and the doe looked a little uncomfortable, but she allowed it. (We weren’t super close.) It was such a sweet ending to the day! (I also talked to both daughters and to our six-year-old granddaughter, as well as my mother-in-law and two of my brothers.)
That last bit wasn’t clear: Does will only allow newborns, not older fawns, to nurse when people are near. Mid-July if a fawn ducks in under its mother to nurse, she quickly moves forward or turns her body to block it. So this fawn is still young enough that she allowed it to nurse even though we were watching, though I could tell she would rather not do so. Still, the fawn has seen us multiple times, and so has the mother, so we weren’t a stranger to either one. Had we had a dog with us, or had we been strangers, they might well have run and not sauntered away, and the doe wouldn’t have been close enough that her fawn could come and feed.
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Happy Birthday, Cheryl!
Here are some comics to entertain you today.
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Lately at the cave we’ve had a male summer taninger by the front door. I think he’s lonely because he tried feeding a bug to is own image. One of the managers managed to get him to hop onto her finger, but most of us cannot get him to do that. I got close enough to try, but he flew away.
Earlier this spring there was a bird (a kind of finch, I think) trying to build a nest in the main cave entrance. I think he gave up after several times when we took the nests out. If he had not built them right where we enter, but had gone off the tour route he would have been fine.
So we have birds at the cave, but no bats around.
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Happy Birthday, Cheryl! It is a great month for birthdays as well as weddings!
Our temp began at 70° this morning. “Just right,” as Goldilocks would say.
I have a lot of cooking to do today, and lower temps outside make for a better cooking day inside. We will have storms later so best to cook earlier in case the power gets knocked out.
A supposed meteor fireball came down in Georgia yesterday. One home is being looked at for possible damage from it. Most of it burned up before it hit.
Maybe God is making a statement about bombs being dropped on His earth? “You humans think you know what bombs are; I’ll show you a real bomb!”
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Mumsee asked of Jo late yesterday, how do you manage to alert yourself on your iPad or other device where to find your phone? Please, Jo, let us know what app you use. Is it possibly Lookout? I think I have that but have never utilized it.
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Morning!! Happy Birthday Cheryl
Oh Tangiers are most lovely!! Such a gift to have them in the area. We have seen none this year.
The baby birds flew the nest this morning. The chickadees use the porch birdhouse every year and we are delighted with the baby chirping as we sit in the porch. We were blessed to watch their initial flight this morning. Cutest thing to watch them try out their wings!
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Good morning. Our grounds are kept swept clean of fledglings, though I did see one hidden away up by the honeyberries.
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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/meteor-fireball-reports-georgia-reaction-meterorite-debris
The town where the house is being investigated as a possible hit is within a few miles of Art’s office.
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I saw the video of that, Janice. I believe they were speculating that it could have been space junk, too?
Is there a reason that there are no bats in the cave, Peter?
Good news, Jo! I wonder when they started adding interest?
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White nose syndrome?
mumsee
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there is an app called find my phone. Shows you close to where it is a will have it ring.
saved me several times
of course you have to have an iPad and a phone
last night it had fallen under the seat
jo
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whoops. Just checked and it is called find my
I think it comes on your devices
jo
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Thanks, Jo. I discovered Lookout is for visually impaired people. It uses your phone camera to point and look at what is in front of you, and then it verbally describes it. I have not needed that much help so far, but good to know it is available.
But do we trust the phone camera and the programmer who set up descriptions? There are so many nuances the human brain processes in viewing something.
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Yes, White Nose. There were 45 hibernating this year, up from a dozen or so that survived when WNS hit 10 years ago. But this time of year most bats roost outside, even during the day.
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Janice wrote:
Maybe God is making a statement about bombs being dropped on His earth? “You humans think you know what bombs are; I’ll show you a real bomb!”
I chuckle when climate change devotees hype their rants, knowing that God is going to burn everything at the end, so there is no way we simple humans can or will destroy the planet.
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Thank you for the birthday greetings! We got Chick fil-A and two of my brothers have called. I missed the call from my mother-in-law, and she’s supposed to call back around 2:00.
God gave me a sweet birthday gift this morning, something I have wanted to see since I was 10 or 12–a female cardinal on her nest.
I love tanagers, but have only seen scarlet (and only about three times), never summer.
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I couldn’t find my phone last night and texted a friend (on my laptop) to call me. It was under my laptop.
I move around a lot working during the day and must have grabbed it when I moved the laptop from the back room to the front room where it landed under my laptop on the stand in front of the sofa.
Unfortunately, it all made Abby miss her walk since I couldn’t find it in time before it got too dark. … 😦
Poor Abby.
Happy Birthday Cheryl!
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Happy birthday, Cheryl! I am glad you got to see the cardinal. Nature’s gifts are the best. We are currently enjoying the beautiful fuchsia colored blooms of the cholla cactus.
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When I lose my phone, Art can call on his if he is home.
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Happy birthday, Cheryl. Sounds like a pleasant day and special gift to see the female cardinal.
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Happy birthday, Cheryl.
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Happy Birthday, Cheryl!
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If I lose my phone, I need to look for it. It has the sound off always.
Jo, I was not clear on the name of that thing for locating my phone. Maybe it is obvious and I will find it in settings or some such.
mumsee
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There is an app that allows you to clap or whistle to locate your phone if it is near enough to hear your designated noise. Some phones misinterpret something that sounds like a clap and turn on their alert/alarm location sound for the wrong reason.
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That cardinal sighting was a gift from God, Cheryl. So glad He gave you that as a loving gift♡
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Happy birthday, Cheryl!
Today I watched a kestrel chasing the songbirds around – I don’t think he caught his supper.
Son and the twins are coming to have a “work weekend at Grammy and Grandpa’s”. They are now 4 ½ and love, love, love to work hard. We’re going to make it so fun – moving a bit of gravel, some mulch, washing seedling pots and finding long saplings that we’ve already cut so they can clear a trail and build a lean-to and other fun things. They’ll be bringing their appropriately sized wheelbarrows and yard tools.
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It is called Find My. I believe the sound it asks your phone to produce is somehow related to the app.
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Thanks, Jo.
mumsee
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How fun and full of learning, Kare! Have a wonderful weekend with them.
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What a fun weekend ahead for you Kare!!! Savor every second!❣️
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Usually I don’t expect to see the year’s fawns with their mothers until just about my birthday. Once in a while, I have one or two sightings before that, but usually it’s just about now. Well, this year we have two mamas who’ve had fawns in our neighborhood, so I thought the sightings might go up, and indeed they have. We had one fawn lying on grass (in the open) all day and all night, and half a dozen other sightings, but all of just a fawn, not the mother. (We’ve seen the mother separately once or twice in June.)
Tonight we took our late walk about 9:00 because today is the last of a weeklong string of 90-plus-degree days. We passed the spot where we saw a fawn yesterday, and then the spot where we’ve seen one two different days, and were turning the corner for the last block when I said, “Well, I guess the fawn doesn’t want to wish me happy birthday today.” And there ahead of us were a doe and fawn nibbling on a neighbor’s flower buffet. The doe has been watching us for at least two years, but it was dusk and this was her first encounter with us with this year’s fawn, so she walked forward to move away. And her fawn ran to catch up with her, and nursed. In my experience, does will only allow newborns to nurse when people are near, and the doe looked a little uncomfortable, but she allowed it. (We weren’t super close.) It was such a sweet ending to the day! (I also talked to both daughters and to our six-year-old granddaughter, as well as my mother-in-law and two of my brothers.)
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That last bit wasn’t clear: Does will only allow newborns, not older fawns, to nurse when people are near. Mid-July if a fawn ducks in under its mother to nurse, she quickly moves forward or turns her body to block it. So this fawn is still young enough that she allowed it to nurse even though we were watching, though I could tell she would rather not do so. Still, the fawn has seen us multiple times, and so has the mother, so we weren’t a stranger to either one. Had we had a dog with us, or had we been strangers, they might well have run and not sauntered away, and the doe wouldn’t have been close enough that her fawn could come and feed.
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Happy Birthday, Cheryl!
mumsee
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