bersaguy

I wonder what the 3 guys were doing in that picture of them at the warehouse before the explosion. It was never explained what they were doing there. Could they have been terrorists planting a device that detonated the stuff from remote position after they got a good safe distance away?

I couldn't agree more buddy. The people in China have been wearing masks as long as I can remember. They know not to trust their government either..... I wish everyone that gets them would take them to their local health departments so they can box them up and mail them to the Government office in China!!!

The more time you spend on the porch the more use to you they will get and soon they won't pay you no mind unless it's a new bird. I have a buddy that has a covered deck and has 10 feeders hanging all the way around it and it doesn't matter how many people are on the patio sitting or walking around there is always a bunch of birds buzzing around the feeders and there is times that 5 or 6 birds will come wide open right down the middle of the cover patio between and around people just like we ain't there. He goes thru 100+ lbs of sugar a summer. He buys bags of 40 pounds at Sam's. He has a small refrigerator on the patio and his wife keeps it full of food for the birds.

About 12 years ago I learned something about them that surprised me. I went out on my patio back where I use to live and found an injured bird on the concrete and I picked it up gently and cupped it in my hand and took it in the house and thought it might be thirsty so I filled a lid from a milk jug and put it in front of the little guy and he was not bash full at all. He drank till I thought he was going to explode. I began calling people to find out where I could take him to get him help. I finally called the TWRA to see where they took injured wild animals and they told me to take it to Waldon's Puddle in Bordeaux so I called them and they told me to bring it up. Long drive but well worth it. They took him down to the examining room and checked him over. They said his wing was injured but not broken so I gave them a donation and they told me they would sent me updates on his case. About a month into it they send me a video of him in the flight net that was where he was in with 3 other birds and his wing was about healed and they would be keeping him for two more weeks until the migration should be about ready to start. They sent me a video of him when they released him and he was well nd took flight out of the lady's hand and was gone. What I learned is that they are very trusting little critters cause when he was in my hand and I put food in front of him he ate it while in my hand and didn't even try to get out of my hand. I made him a small box to stay in with cheese cloth material and he ate out of that milk cap for 3 days till I could find him help and he never once tried to get out of the box when I would open it to put his food in it. I don't think they are as afraid of humans as many people think they are.

It may be a new bird to your feeders but many times they are curious critters and will get right in front of you and study you. Also if your feeder levels are dropping faster there is a real good chance you have a lot of early morning feeders that will feed up early and then just pop in and out to snack all day. I have noticed over the many years I have been working with these birds that they do have a few certain feeding times and one is in the evening before roosting and the other is early morning and the rest of the day they fight over the feeders. I just had to fill 3 of my feeders that seem to be their favorites as I have to fill them more often.

You will probably get more as I think they are just late getting here this year.

I didn't always have this issue. It began after that truck hit me back in 78 and destroyed my body and they had to remove a few body parts such as my spline among other things and then the problem showed up.

Well I will sleep better tonight knowing we still have 5 Billion years left!!……….

Yea a test to see just how stupid some people can be and actually plant the damn things and spread some other dangerous thing from China !!!!

Well in all honesty I didn't lose a minute sleep over that but I am wondering something? How do they know this is going to really happen about the 5 million years and How do they know it will still Not go Nova but still function another 130 million years and who is planning on being around to prove these people are correct? In all honesty and I hope no offense but I kind of think in all reality I think GOD will be in charge of what the sun is doing in 5 million years....JMHO

And follow all that great food with a trip to ER. Now funny thing is I can eat Green Onions with zero issues and Doctors cannot tell me why but regular onions contain something that Green Onions don't...…………...

Has anyone got any of those suspicious seeds from China that you didn't order. The news medias have been telling everyone that got them not to open the bag or touch or plant the seeds and don't even want folks throwing them in the trash cause they will end up in our landfills and are telling folks to take them to their local health department and let them dispose of them. About 400 people in Tennessee have got them so far!!!

Not a problem for me. I can't eat onions!!!

So scientists are predicting that the Sun is gonna go nova in about 5 million years. Well I'm sure gonna lose sleep over that tonight.....

My Television channel selection is fairly limited and I have to depend on antennas to watch TV. I do get a bunch of channels that I have never actually searched all of them to see what I do have so if you can tell me what channel The Expanse is on I might be able to find it if it is on any thing that in not a cable network channel.

I think the moon was really bright last night. I woke up about 2AM this morning and it was so bright I thought someone had bright lights lit up in my back yard!! I do enjoy the moon light. My issues are not with the Moon. My issue is what is the fascination with Mars?? Several countries are now shooting things to Mars to explore it. For what purpose are they spending millions of dollars to explore a planet that has zero possibility of ever being inhabited by humans as they already know the atmosphere won't accept life as we know it!!!

Just keep your feeders up cause I think the migration of many birds are just now arriving in Tennessee cause I talked to a guy that lives next door to where I use to and he put 3 feeders up in May and decided to change out the food in the feeders with fresh red actual nectar instead of sugar water and he said in about a week he got about 8-10 birds fighting over the feeders. I saw one year they didn't arrive till August and stayed later than they normally do up in the fall. Make sure when you quit seeing birds in the Fall because they have migrated that you make sure you keep fresh food in 1 or 2 feeders till it gets cold enough you think it might freeze before you take it down. Reason being you probably had travelers stopped and fed a day of two that you did not see because they were just passing thru going north and they will be looking for food in your feeders in their migration back south and will expect to find it going south at same places they found it going north. I have read that is several different articles about them. It's amazing how smart those little critters are!!! They sure must have a great GPS built in to make migrations over 10,000 miles back and forth each year.

They very well may be. I have done a ton of research on Hummingbirds and it says that on an average year hummingbirds fly an average of 40,000 miles a year and there is an 75-80% chance that the birds you get you have had in the past. I thought that was odd because my daughter seldom go any with her feeder and I got the first little one and that grew into 2 little ones and now within a month I have a fighter Squadron of about 20 to 30. I think I may have figured out why I have this many birds. There is a driveway that runs down past my house to a house way back behind me in the woods and an elderly couple live there and there daughters and sons check on them everyday. One day while I was out putting food in the feeders one of their sons was driving past and stopped he said, Now I know where they went and I said what and he said the birds. He said his mother and father said that the birds were acting strange this year like they would come and be there for a day or so and then be gone a couple days and then back. He said they are flying from my parents two feeders to your feeders and back again. I will tell Mother why the birds are acting differently and I kind of want to thank you because they don't have to fill the feeders up as often now and that makes my father not have to keep them so full all the time. So actually I have almost what you could call local birds that come here every year and the 2 little ones I had to begin with found my feeders by accident and evidently other full grown birds followed them to here and that is where I go all these birds. When they are not here they are back in the woods not far away.

Well it's time to update!! My 1 small hummer got another after about 2 weeks and now I have about 20-25 birds fighting over 5 feeders!! My daughter came back to see it and she said she couldn't believe that I have so many birds of all sizes and she brought her feeder back here and added it to my 5 and now have birds fighting over 6 feeders...……..LOL She said she didn't think I would get any since they have lived here 18 years and seldom got any birds on her feeder. Next year GOD willing I will be adding a few more feeders and I am looking at planting a vine that will grow up the posts from the ground to the railing and along my wooden deck that has a horn type flower that blooms in late spring and keeps blooming all summer and the Hummingbirds are suppose to love the nectar the flowers produce. Then the birds will have options on what to eat. I have a friend that lives in Castilian Springs and he has the vines and 10 feeders and he told me the other day that he has about 40 to 50 birds and him and his wife can sit out on their deck and have birds buzzing passed them all evening. He said it's funny when one will stop right up in front of him and hover and just look him over with no sign of fear at all. My birds are getting use to seeing me on the deck when I am filling the feeders and they will even hover near me till I hang the feeder back up and then they will go directly to it and start feeding. It is amazing how something so small can give me so much pleasure just watching them!!!

I did ask all of those questions when I was discussing the mask issue and she said they don't require an appointment because they are located in a small town and never have more than 1 or 2 people in the bank at 1 time so social distancing is not a problem at the present time. The tellers now have glass shields up in front of them also when you do business inside the bank. They have 2 people working the drive up now cause many people have started using drive up a lot more. I was always using drive up before the pandemic and would again except I have to go inside and get my new card and sign some papers. I am adding a second checking account also and will be getting a second Debit card. I have never felt comfortable putting my only checking account debit card number on line for regular monthly withdrawals for things like St. Jude's, ASPCA and Wounded Warriors and have been mailing them checks every month. With this new account I will just transfer funds into the account to cover the withdraws of those 3 accounts and there will be a $100.00 remaining n the account to keep it open and active. My banker (Stacy) told me they have several people that also do that so it is a good plan. That's why I have to go inside this time.

Now as for me on the mask issue. I will be going off this property on Saturday for the first time since March. I have to go to the bank and get a new debit card as my has been blocked by my bank. My Bank blocked a purchase when a guy in New Jersey attempted to use a debit card that had been made on a computer. They were able to actually catch the guy trying to use it when store security took him into custody right at the check out counter. My banker called me at 9:05 AM to ask me if I was in New Jersey at the present time and I told Stacy at the present time I am 5 miles from you here in Gordonsville. She said thank you and told me what had happened and that the bank electronic department was the ones that blocked the purchase and alerted the store to the bogus card. The bank was later notified that he had several other bogus cards from a few other people in Tennessee. I am very thankful knowing my banks electronics division is so very efficient in their job. Anyway back to the mask issue. I will be wearing a Mask when I go to the bank that I got from a member here. Stacy at the bank said all of the bank employees are required to wear them but customers are not but I will be wearing mine. I'm 72 years old and have several other health issues that make me a prime target for that CRUD so no sense in tempting fate any more than I have too and being macho or stupid. I will also have a small pocket size bottle of hand sanitizer and once I leave the bank I will be using it also.

get your mind out of the gutter Quav and you won't have any problems with it...…….

Chik-Filet has some kind of free food promo if you pay with coins instead of plastic or paper money. I don't knw all the particulars on it but I'm sure it's on their website. I probably have 50-75.00 dollars of change in a coffee can that has just been accumulating over the 3 or more years. I'm going to the bank Saturday and get some coin wrappers and roll up what I have.....lol.

I saw some testing being done with the smaller shorter swaps a week or so ago on the news at a few of the drive up centers.

Mortar's are hand fed. I want to see the guy that feeds this one!!!