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Kokopelli
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posted May 04, 2026 09:30 AM
Filling my 5 Hummingbird feeders up almost every day now.
Hummingbirds.
Oriels. (Beautiful birds !!!)
Honey Bees.
And last but not least, working the night shift,
Fruit Bats.
I've got a pretty busy patio. Plus quail & 3 kinds of doves out in the Zen Garden. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Leonard
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posted May 04, 2026 03:19 PM
Only the male Orioles are strikingly colorful. Females are a bit dull, in comparison, we know why, of course. They don’t want to attract attention while brooding.
You must not have a very big feeder? Refill every day? I need to refill mine, only one is empty, but might as well do both,,,,tomorrow.
I did not know Arizona has fruit bats! I thought they were way down in Indonesia, etc. Africa? Tropical south America? My concept is of a large animal about the size of a crow?
Where I have seen scads of bats is around Death Valley, but they are little critters, about the size of a sparrow. I saw a maybe? National Geographic once about a bat cave in Texas. From the surface, typical Texas scrub brush and a non descript little clearing in the shrub and apparently several million bats fly in and out of this huge cavern that is well hidden except for the traffic at sundown. Kind of amazing. Anyway.
LB 🐝
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Kokopelli
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posted May 04, 2026 04:27 PM
Standard issue feeders. Don't want the oversized ones due to the risk of fermentation. Doesn't take long on a few warm days.
Yeah, we got bats. They migrate down into Mexico and back. Not huge but still impressive when you catch one in the light.
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Leonard
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posted May 05, 2026 10:38 AM
That bat cavern in Texas, if I’m not mistaken, they estimated a couple million bats, which is a lot of guano. Maybe they crawl in the opening, which is hardly big enough for an adult, and inside they took pictures. It’s big! I never tried any spelunking, I think I would get claustrophobic? Remember when they took kids into caves in The Philippines? Using SCUBA equipment, crawling through holes and openings. Stupid place to take kids, I think somebody died, the rescuers, I think? That shit is not for me! Squeezing through tight spots in SCUBA equipment? I’d freak out!
I saw another show aout a hole on a farm in Australia. They take guided tours, it was at least 50feet, 50 yards? just to get to the water then deep and one of those adventurors drowned. Nobody knows how? So simple, stay together, but some chick didn’t. I think they found her next week. That’s nuts! Like jumping out of perfectly good airplanes! Statistically, those chutes hardly never fail. So they say?
I used to hunt with a guy that was an inspector for the Navy. He was sent all over the world, investigating deaths, stc. One was the USS Cole where some raghead blew a hole in the side of the ship killing some sailors. I was in his house, lived in Claremont, right next door. He had a head mount of a Marco Polo Ram that was spectacular. He went all over the world investigating deaths. One, over at China Lake a female skydiver, her chute failed to open. He said the impact forced her shin bones through the bottoms of her jump boots and all of the woman’s internal organs burst out the sides of her ribcage and out of her body, slamming into the ground and splattering. Yeah, he had some good stories.
Those guys had an office right on Foothill Blvd, in Upland. And you tend to think, maybe they would be stationed in Washington DC or the Pentagon? No, non descript civilian office rental in Upland CA. Don’t know what happened to him but he got transferred
somewhere. He must have had some training in off road because he was skilled and would demonstrate it every chance he had. I was careful about laying my gun on a seat casually, better to case it when that fella was driving!
I just read that some states outlaw hog hunting? What’s the theory with that? I know the goal is the eradicate hogs but how will prohibiting hunting help? ko ko knows stuff like that. So, how will that help?
LB 🐝
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Kokopelli
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posted May 05, 2026 11:32 AM
The Hog Theory is that hunting will scatter a herd with the result being new herds established when a large colony pen trap could get them all.
Hogs (Feral pigs, not Javelina) are the Problem Child of wildlife management. If a Game & Fish Dept. admits that there are hogs, then they need to manage the species. Paperwork, environmental impact studies yadda yadda yadda. Another problem is that hogs can cause a ton of damage to agriculture. That's bad. On the other hand, different fingers. People like to hunt hogs. No closed season, no draw, no points, trophy animals and good to eat. That's good.
So ......... Get rid of the hogs as an invasive species and deny a lot of hunters the opportunity to continue hunting or manage hogs as a Cash Cow for the Dept. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Leonard
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posted May 05, 2026 12:50 PM
YEAH….THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT.
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