Yippie! New bird - Wildlife Gardeners

Random · 10-28-2009, 11:17 AM

just saw a yellow bellied sapsucker. So happy I could just piddle myself. Common I know but I have been here two years and not seen a single one. And I look. There aren't even any sapsucker holes in the trees, no evidence of them ever being around. I've thought that strange because they are common and should be here.

Every new creature that shows up is worth a celebration. He posed nicely and took a sun bath on one of the pine boughs at my woods edge. Yay me!

If you build it they will come and all of that.

milkweed · 10-28-2009, 11:22 AM

Pictures please.
So funny. My 4yr wonders why I laugh when I'm the computer. He'd never understand why I'm laughing a your "piddle", he gets in trouble for those kinds of things.

biigblueyes · 10-28-2009, 11:23 AM

My dad used to say "yellow bellied sapsucker" as a less than complimentary comment about someone. I guess there's really such a thing.

milkweed · 10-28-2009, 11:50 AM

Same here Blueeyes. I thought was just name calling.

Random · 10-28-2009, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by biigblueyes

My dad used to say "yellow bellied sapsucker" as a less than complimentary comment about someone. I guess there's really such a thing.

a term made popular by the dashing and debonair Yosemite Sam of Bugs Bunny fame. Now that was (prepare yourself, I don't think I have ever used these two words in the same sentence) quality tv. Yosemite also used the term highfalutin which I firmly believe should be in everyone's vocabulary. Makes people laugh even when you are trying to ask them to come down a few pegs.

Nope, sapsuckers are real. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

milkweed I could say another phrase but try to keep posts can open in the office sorts. My brothers always tried to correct my language around their kids and I could never figure out which were bad words. I'd think I did pretty good when I said "butt" and was later told it needs to be "bum". I didn't know what "bums" were as a body part. Being a parent must make you tri-lingual instantly.

gnomenative · 10-28-2009, 02:21 PM

I love it when new species show up! Thanks for sharing your celebration! Go out and girdle an invasive tree to celebrate! Maybe you can get more birds in that family to live it it when it is dead!!! Congrats!

Random · 10-28-2009, 04:05 PM

we should start a thread on new species, reporting anything that shows up which was not there before. It journals the success of efforts. Victory is good.

HA! All my invasive trees have been removed. Lots of snags now.

milkweed · 10-29-2009, 04:20 PM

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I'd think I did pretty good when I said "butt"

Butts a bad word? UT OH. Come to think of it I don't use that word around my son, unless I'm yelling a hubby;" Get off your butt ....
Remember don't say anything in front of kids that you wouldn't say in front of a priest, clergyman etc. LOL

Good old Yosemite Sam! Thats where I heard it.

10-28-2009, 11:17 AM	#1
Random Grub Join Date: May 2009 Location: Georgia	Yippie! New bird just saw a yellow bellied sapsucker. So happy I could just piddle myself. Common I know but I have been here two years and not seen a single one. And I look. There aren't even any sapsucker holes in the trees, no evidence of them ever being around. I've thought that strange because they are common and should be here. Every new creature that shows up is worth a celebration. He posed nicely and took a sun bath on one of the pine boughs at my woods edge. Yay me! If you build it they will come and all of that. __________________ Ecosystem. That's the stuff in your backyard. Go look, it's there. Really.

10-28-2009, 11:22 AM	#2
milkweed Heron Join Date: May 2009 Location: Indiana	Pictures please. So funny. My 4yr wonders why I laugh when I'm the computer. He'd never understand why I'm laughing a your "piddle", he gets in trouble for those kinds of things. __________________ We do not inherit the land from our fathers, we borrow it from our children.

10-28-2009, 11:23 AM	#3
biigblueyes WG Facilitator Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA	My dad used to say "yellow bellied sapsucker" as a less than complimentary comment about someone. I guess there's really such a thing. __________________ My yarden and I lean a little to the wild side.

10-28-2009, 11:50 AM	#4
milkweed Heron Join Date: May 2009 Location: Indiana	Same here Blueeyes. I thought was just name calling. __________________ We do not inherit the land from our fathers, we borrow it from our children.

10-28-2009, 02:21 PM	#6
gnomenative Grub Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Montgomery, Illinois	I love it when new species show up! Thanks for sharing your celebration! Go out and girdle an invasive tree to celebrate! Maybe you can get more birds in that family to live it it when it is dead!!! Congrats! __________________ It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals." ~Sara Stein Living Landscapes: http://www.livinglandscapescompany.com/

10-28-2009, 04:05 PM	#7
Random Grub Join Date: May 2009 Location: Georgia	we should start a thread on new species, reporting anything that shows up which was not there before. It journals the success of efforts. Victory is good. HA! All my invasive trees have been removed. Lots of snags now. __________________ Ecosystem. That's the stuff in your backyard. Go look, it's there. Really.

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