tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post3281377878582818847..comments2023-08-08T04:19:26.974-07:00Comments on THE CALLADUS BLOG: Hummingbird songCalladushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-86262841204676326242008-12-18T08:12:00.000-08:002008-12-18T08:12:00.000-08:00Madhu, I guess I'm not a "watcher" - I'm more like...Madhu, <BR/><BR/>I guess I'm not a "watcher" - I'm more like a "listener".<BR/><BR/>I listen to the local mockingbirds (I do love to watch them hunt in the gardens. No one really knows why they flash their wings while hunting!)<BR/><BR/>I listen to the local Jays, and to the Ravens. I love Ravens - they're so smart. But noisy! A colony lives above my apartment complex, and I have to use white noise to drown them out and sleep.<BR/><BR/>I love listening to the call of the Doves here. My father used to imitate Dove calls. Dad could imitate bird calls so well that at the right time of the year he could get them to fly in circles around him. <BR/><BR/>I know something about the songbirds in the South New Mexico and Texas badlands. The call of the Meadowlark is one of my favorite calls.<BR/><BR/>There is a covey of Quail that live in the field near where I work. I believe they are Bob White from the calls that I hear. They've run out in front of my car from time to time. Sometimes there's a trail of Quail with a line of chicks following the mom.<BR/><BR/>I love watching the little black birds that walk around our company cafeteria and the parking lots of the local shopping center. They're so brave, nothing seems to disturb them. Their strut is so like a predator that you can see the dinosaur in them!<BR/><BR/>So in a way, I do watch. I tend to listen more. But I've never been serious about birding.Calladushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620879847877868166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-11676325206284405432008-12-18T00:40:00.000-08:002008-12-18T00:40:00.000-08:00Hey - I didn't know you were a birder too! We shou...Hey - I didn't know you were a birder too! We should go birdwatching sometime... :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16397352235608677895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-28976835871407113212008-11-14T02:31:00.000-08:002008-11-14T02:31:00.000-08:00Did you see that next week the Ghost Hunters are r...Did you see that next week the Ghost Hunters are running an episode about the "Clovis Sanatorium"?possum_mommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12791250444965360843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736821.post-71815538412319890582008-11-13T10:48:00.000-08:002008-11-13T10:48:00.000-08:00Well, I don't know about Fresno, but here in Burba...Well, I don't know about Fresno, but here in Burbank it's been one of the hottest, longest summers we've had, and it started out with a 120 degree weekend in March (which then cooled down to the mid seventies until May where it was regularly in the high nineties)and finally broke after an 80 degree Halloween night.<BR/><BR/>My laymans guess? Man-made.spajadigithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04796546096636247752noreply@blogger.com