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Grub
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Georgia
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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.
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Heron
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Indiana
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![]() ![]() 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.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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My dad used to say "yellow bellied sapsucker" as a less than complimentary comment about someone. I guess there's really such a thing.
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Heron
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Indiana
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Same here Blueeyes. I thought was just name calling.
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Grub
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Georgia
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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.
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Grub
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Montgomery, Illinois
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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!
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Grub
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Georgia
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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.
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Heron
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Indiana
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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.
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