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OK “Less Warm” Front. Cornell Lab of Ornithology estimates more’n half a billion migrating birds flying south tonight thru tomorrow. I expect the Corpus Christi Hawk watch oughtta top 15,000 passing overhead 9 to 5. https://birdcast.info/Left school at dusk and a little male kestrel was passing over looking for a place to put down, first one of the year.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Supposed to get down to 55 here tonight. It was 102 here yesterday.
Hope it brings down some northern Doves. 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I have a pot of chicken and andouille gumbo simmering right now. It'll eat quite well for the next couple of days.
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39 in west central Ia. Had to close the windows!
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Hasn’t hit here, 95 yesterday
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37 here at the house - mid 80's today. Temp probably will drop a little lower as sunrise gets here.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I laugh at the cold. Hahahah ... I earned my chilblain toes!
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Ooooh sounds bad ... I hope the wind turbines hold out!
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OK “Less Warm” Front. Cornell Lab of Ornithology estimates more’n half a billion migrating birds flying south tonight thru tomorrow. I expect the Corpus Christi Hawk watch oughtta top 15,000 passing overhead 9 to 5. https://birdcast.info/Left school at dusk and a little male kestrel was passing over looking for a place to put down, first one of the year. Web site is pretty darn cool. In case anyone missed it. great site here https://windy.com
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We live in northeast Missouri and about 2 weeks ago the hummingbirds were drinking 1 gallon of sugar water every 3 days. It's hard to make an accurate count of them at the feeders but there were close to 30. Now they've dropped back to 8 that I counted yesterday and I imagine the ones I see now are moving ahead of the cold. My latest recorded hummingbird was October 9th a couple of years ago. I sure enjoy seeing them.
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We live in northeast Missouri and about 2 weeks ago the hummingbirds were drinking 1 gallon of sugar water every 3 days. It's hard to make an accurate count of them at the feeders but there were close to 30. Now they've dropped back to 8 that I counted yesterday and I imagine the ones I see now are moving ahead of the cold. My latest recorded hummingbird was October 9th a couple of years ago. I sure enjoy seeing them. They are off to Mexico to get netted and stuffed. I guess they think they make good love charms down there. Sad. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mexico+hummingbird+trade
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Birdie, help me out here. That web site shows Nocturnal migration. Call me ignorant, but I always thought that they flew in the day time. Do they fly at night and rest in the day, or do they fly day and night? I never really noticed migrating birds at night.
That cold front is supposed to roll through here tonight. Hopefully it'll flush out all of this humidity. I'm ready for Fall so that I can get out there and kill some deer. It's been way too hot up until now.
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Birdie, help me out here. That web site shows Nocturnal migration. Call me ignorant, but I always thought that they flew in the day time. Do they fly at night and rest in the day, or do they fly day and night? I never really noticed migrating birds at night.
That cold front is supposed to roll through here tonight. Hopefully it'll flush out all of this humidity. I'm ready for Fall so that I can get out there and kill some deer. It's been way too hot up until now. Birdwatcher probably knows better than I but I suspect it is species dependent. Hard to see birds at night.
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Hummingbirds are frantically feeding here. Woke up to the low 60's this morning in East Texas. They'll probably be leaving soon.
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Already here in Tn. Last 3 or 4 hrs it came in.
Nice and cool for ftcky deer opener on saturday.
H bird buzzed me couple days ago while I was smoking a ciggertte. Blew a big ole cloud of smoke on it bout 15 inches from my face hovering. One of those emerald green ones.
It all lined up . Perfect happenstance timing!! 😄😄😄😄😄
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Medium rain. Lost power between 4 and 6 am. Back on at 6:30.
Cooler.
Bones hurting pretty good
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Back porch was humming yesterday,filling feeders twice per day.Most are gone this morning,riding the wind to Port Aransas.
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It’s starting to move through Katy now, sure feels good.
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Got down to 49 degrees here this morning. Went to bed last night with the AC on high. My kind of weather!
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