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Weezie......hello?????

They put all the letter's from the Alphabet
into a bag...
And then they let some guy pull out some letters...
First letter he picked, held it up in the air and said, "C" a,
another letter was picked, and he said, "N" a, "D" a...... get it, C~a~n~a~d~a

I guess that one gets' lost in the translation..
It's more of a visual..

Go back to the birds....

Had me worried there for a second...that you knew somthing about out history that i didnt know.....i mean i know my high school teacher was a....shall we say..."free spirited woman"

My family and I spent the Summer of '67 driving through Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and my most vivid memories of the people there was how they ended any and every sentence with, "eh?" and how they all called me, "Laddy" and offered me a "soda-pop". I found it delightful.

Two years ago, at a bird-banding day, I was talking with a lady I thought was a local, but then she asked me if we "see many redbirds here, eh?" I said, "you're from Alberta or British Columbia aren't you, eh?" She broke into laughter and said, Oh no, that darn, "eh?" It gives me away all the time. She then told me she was from BC and asked me how I knew that. It is simple. Redbirds are not found in AB or BC and people from there often don't call them Northern Cardinals but instead call them, "Redbirds". I then walked her over to the feeders where about 30 Cardinals were happily eating with the Nuthatches, Goldfinches, etc. She was DELIGHTED and took lots of pictures.

I guess we do say Eh lots.....gotta be a Canadian thing and we do say pop too.

You guys are a hoot! Whbo took my thread, who took it where? Hey Thorny, the lady at the Wildlife Authority said that all of our chickadees are the Carolina type. Then the lady said that Canada got it's name when these two Indian kids were playing and they dropped all their scrabble letters and what stayed in the bag was a C a n a d a, and so it was. But, you but some people have suggested that we may have hybrid chickadees around here to.

You are going to fit in here just fine Jane

I wasn't sure. I never seen a Black-Capped in person, but am fairly familiar with them. They are larger than the Carolina, the black bib extends lower on the chest, and they have a deeper raspier, "Chick-a-dee, Chick-a-dee,dee,dee" call, that I have heard recordings of.

Yeah, just as soon as Thorny learns to spell..
You'll "fit" in here just fine...

Thorny??

The difference between a Canadian and a New Yorker is that the Canadian says, "How's it goin', ay?" and the New Yorker says, "Ayyyyy, how's it goin'"

That's my next sneaky plan thorny -- I am going to figure out how to transmit bird songs to you. It made me crazy today. There were new birds sounds and I don't have a clue who they were.
I could just take a movie with my sony cybershot, it has sound, but I need an efficient way to get it to your ears (what I mean to say is I need my husband to figure out how to make it happen }

Record the sounds on your computer and then save it as a .wav file and then you can email it or post it.

Thorny,
Oh yeah, No problem, I'll just use my jiffy super spy 007 recording pen and then plug er' in the puter and mail them off to you.

What am I recording with???

My son worked for DirecTV and brought home dozens of old 18" satellite dishes that are perfect for making parabolic microphone. I even found plans on the internet on how to do it WITH the DirecTV dishes. Check your local satellite dealers to see if they have some old dishes they could give or sell to you. Then use an inexpensive digital sound recorder hooked to the parablic microphone to record the sounds, download the sounds to your computer and then upload them to the internet.

Thorny,
You are hilarous. I think I'll just stick to my super duper 007 microphone pen plan

How did I miss 3 pages of another bird nut??
Hi from NY, Jane!
Go ahead, be a good grandma and take lots of pictures of your grand-birds. I love pictures }
I have to get one of those 007 pens. Does Penny Money have any more?

Thorny come to summercamp and sit under my tree. You can watch Black capped chickadees all day from realllly close up.

Wrennie,
Hi, HI, from Maryland, Wrenni! It's a pleasure to meet you. Yup, I'm a bird nut! I caught the fever this past summer. I got it bad.

The cool thing is that hubby caught the fever too. We actually share a common interest. Boy, after all these years that sure is a blessing. We can happily stay busy all day in our backyard. Now, when he call from his 1 1/2 commute we actually have fun stuff to hear about. He loves then a new bird has visited. He especially like if his cooper's hawk has been here
I can't wait to get to know you. I still say... becareful asking for pictures - but before you change your mind....

Gotta love those chickadees

Boy, That chickadee picture is huge!! I am so sorry if I choked anyone's computer. I have a new computer so I have to learn new ways of doing things. I had to have a MAC It's a great computer but it's going to take a lot of time to learn to use.
I thought that chickadee would be half that size... very sorry for that big little chickadee

I hope everyone had a great day!

jane, welcome. it is ok. the standard, maximum size we allow is 640 x 480 pixels

Awww, dee-dee!
Just got interested, huh?
You should
"Get ready to "Count for the Record!"
Join the Great Backyard Bird Count, February 16-19, 2007. It's fun, it's free, it takes as little as 15 minutes--and it helps the birds"
at
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc
It really is FUN! And you don't have to be an ezpert bird identifier to play. Uh, I mean participate.

Hi Wrennie, I am going to check it out. I think I may have to many things to be able to fit in here right now. I can't follow/find threads for crap.
Last night I posted asking for advice on navigating through here, then I fell asleep, this morning I had no clue where the advice seeking thread was

That site teaches it all to you.
Basically if you see 5 at one time there are 5 flitting in and out. The longer you watch them the better you are at guestimating the number of visitors.

5 of what flitting in and out where I truly have no idea what you mean. But, I will be trying to figure it out.

Thornius,
Penny may be the Canadian........But I notice her in my purse all the time.

ha ha

dodge