[Ag-eq] Notes from the BlanchRanch

[Tracy Carcione]

Wow Jewel, very cool!
Around here, blackbirds do not have an interesting song.  It's the
mockingbirds that go all out, night and day.  I love them.
And how interesting, that your bird friend follows you around the farm!

I went to a lecture about owls last week.  The presenter brought several
owls with her.  She is a bird rehabilitator, meaning she cares for injured
birds.  She releases the ones she can back into the wild, and takes care of
those who are too badly injured to survive on their own.  She has a great
horned owl who was apparently raised from a chick by humans, and doesn't
realize humans aren't owls.  It has decided she is its mate, and hooted a
lot to let us other owl/humans know she was his, so don't mess with her!
She says he gives her lovely mating presents, like a rat butt, and they have
long, hooting conversations.  He's whole and healthy, but he can't live in
the wild, because he will attack owl/humans who get into his territory.
It was very interesting.
Tracy


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Subject: [Ag-eq] Notes from the BlanchRanch

For several years now, in the Spring, i have been befriended, or so it
seems, by a free-living 
blackbird.  I don't know what the expected lifespan of a blackbird is, so it
may well be the same 
bird, but I am inclined to think that it may be a succession of blackbirds,
one being the chief son 
of the previous year's friend.
This year's friend, suddenly, vanished 2 days ago, on Nov26, but I hear that
there is a very junior 
birdling, whether a blackbird or not I haven't any idea, and being a
birdling, it has not developed 
its father's beautiful song so I cannot identify it by that, but I am aware
of this junior birdling 
perching in the same tree as this year's blackbird from where it can watch
my backdoor and making 
constant sounds of chirping when it sees me.
Going back to having been befriended, seemingly, by "Blackie!  You gorgeous
Boy!" he follows me 
around the property as I go about my:  I wrote * daily, but nightly fits as
well:   chores, perching 
in the nearest tree:  I have invited him to perch on my shoulder, but he
hasn't quite found the 
nerve for that, and sings and sings and sings his beautiful song.  Being
aware that I am nought but 
a lowly female, he doesn't expect me to reply in the same vein, or, I hope,
that he doesn't, for if 
he does, I am sorry to say that, to date,  I have been a great
disappointment to him!

        Jewel
 


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