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 ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:08 I took a walk this morning by a drainage canal. The local residents don't seem
to care that it is half full of junk.If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:10 But they are curious about passersby:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:11 There's always an old fellow or two just hanging out in the sun:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:12 The aloof neighbor:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:14 And your careful stalkers:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:15 You can catch someone using a net:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:17 An occasional greybeard...If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:18 ...or the freakin' manic that scares 'em all away:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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| Date: 2007-12-19 20:36 Classic. LOL...
Great pics Charles.
I love all of the crazy critters of the bushlands...
Don't know about that last one though - hehehe.
Ah nature....
That's one of the things lacking in Tokyo.
Here's my back yard back home... with Mum and a native that was stopping by... |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-19 20:40 Not a pet? Very colorful bird. Our parrot-like birds are fairly shy. All green
and like orange groves and palms. I never got one on a shot yet.If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-19 22:48 Aw, poor Charles. Two kinds of birds: Swoop and poopers and sit and squatters.
S&Ps are very accurate fly by high and low level bombers. SS are the
infiltrators. Cuddle up next to you, gain your confidence and only then mess on
your clothes. 
Either type will sit and pose for you in exchange for a Big Mac.
I like nature shooting best and enjoy the challenge of sitting for hours,
sweating up a swimming pool, swatting or ignoring insects just hoping for some
fauna to wander by and just be itself in front of my lens. Tiring,
time-consuming, but just one decent shot makes it all worthwhile.
But when the chips are down and a deadline is looming, to get birds to hold
still I utilize nature's most successful evolutionary trick: man-made bribery. I
have yet to meet a bird that will fly on by and ignore a chunk of quasi-meat
from that monument to Yankee ingenuity.
Try it.
And you can borrow a couple of my visitors for a day or two.
This is Larry. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-19 22:50 And this is Mo.
Yup. I name all animals that grace my yard Larry, Curly or Mo until they
condescend to tell me their real names. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-19 22:55 This guy's name is Ack Ack. Nicknamed Aflac. He would look at me silently, pick
clams. Come back by, stare some more, then snort Ack Ack at me and wander off
again. Has to be his name because that is not the sound those birds make.
Until that day he was "Curly". Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-19 23:04 And this guy is Peggy.
Yup, this guy. He's a man and not shy. He worried the life out of me, though.
I was skipping stones on the ocean one day and he dived right into the path of
one of my skips. Got pegged right in the side of his head. Sat floating on the
waves for ten minutes with his head cocked to the side and mouth sagging open. I
felt sick to my stomach.
Weird, you know, that I can easily grab a rifle or bow and hunt critters for
food but an accidental injury wrecks me inside.
Well, after the ten minutes, he straightened his head up and took off into the
sky. Continued fishing for the rest of the afternoon.
But his name stuck: Peggy.
Tomorrow I'll dig up the Green Cheeked Conoir shots. That guy's name is
Squiggitts and he is the bird that convinced me that humans are not the only
intelligent life on the planet. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-24 18:26 OK...here is Squiggitts.
Will not stay confined to a cage...will always find a way to open the doors.
Sleeps under a mop. Coke is his favorite drink. Hates beer, loves rum. Prefers
Wendy's to McDonalds. Pulls hinge pins from doors to enter rooms. Steals
earrings and necklaces right off of ladies...but only if they are pretty. Uses
curse words but only at appropriate moments. Can type on a computer and with pen
in beak, signs his name. Picked out his name himself and tells people: "I'm
Squiggitts". Refuses to call me Karl...calls me Squichywitch. Nickname is "4 by
4" because he is four inches and four ounces but thinks he is a truck. He runs t
he print shop. Assists in book binding by stripping the spine off any book that
does not meet his approval. Stands at the end of the collator and punches a hole
in select finished book covers. Costumers have come to want the punched covers
for themselves. We do not let him near the Baum folder or the presses while
running. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-24 17:42 Cute kid. Obtained at six weeks old. 10 years old now. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-24 17:43 But messy. Oh, yes...his favorite dessert...how could I forget...Jello gelatin.
No other brand and do not dare give him diet Jello or diet
Coke. He will bite and cuss you for hours after! Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 183878 Posts: 1184 | Date: 2007-12-29 21:40 You inspire me, Karl. Here's a shot from the Jacksonville Zoo, shot two days
ago:If I haven't been there, I'm still planning on going!
If I haven't done it, I've still got time to try! |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-30 21:35 We don't have any zoos in the Virgin Islands. It's catch 'em as they go! Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1748 | Date: 2007-12-30 21:37 or as they come... Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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