What are you guys yappin about

[Matthew Duncan]

... I know exactly how the scientific community can measure -- and in fact has measured -- the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide present each year for many thousands of years...

How?

[Daniel Nighteyes]

How?

PM sent.

[GunClick Rick]

I met that Hawk the other day Daniel,his name is Tommy

[Daniel Nighteyes]

I met that Hawk the other day Daniel,his name is Tommy

[Actually, HER name is Tammy...  ]

[River City John]

I quoted reputable scientific sources to support my statement; sources that are considered reputable by anyone who isn't prepared to claim that the majority of the scientific community including NASA, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and such publications as Scientific American, Nature, National Geographic, et al, are in some sort of fantastic conspiracy.

Thanks for the reminder, Daniel. I suggested to my wife that she renew our subscription to Scientific American as one of my gifts this year.
And by golly if she didn't do just that! (Note to self, be sure and act surprised Christmas morning. )

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Thanks, River City John!  (And I'm sure you can pull off the surprised act just fine...)

By the way, here's another neighbor of mine, a Says Phoebe:

[Curley Cole]

Very COOL picture, to be sure

curley

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Very COOL picture, to be sure

curley

Thanky kindly, Curley.  Here's my favorite "neighbor" picture.  SWMBO is holding out a peanut for our best Scrub Jay friend,  whom we've named Jayson.  (Please pardon the trash in the yard.  We'd been pruning the bushes on the hill, and hadn't yet picked up the debris...)

[GunClick Rick]

I'll have to tell ya the story of Hawkeye some day.Hawk i raised about 30 years ago,he was cool..I even taught him to hunt mice.

[Dr. Bob]

While I was out in the yard today a golden eagle soared over head.  Not a regular, and I didn't have a camera.   It was neat considering that I live between I-70 & US 40 Highway in a suburb.  Several county lakes a bit east and the Missouri River 6 miles north.  Really cool though!

[GunClick Rick]

Where old Daniel lives he probably sees more wild life than i do.My cousin live in Glendale on a hill and has all kids of animals around,my brother lived in Tapanga Canyon area for awhile and had racoons everywhere.They didn't have none of these though!

[Dr. Bob]

Ricky,

I think I used to hunt those when I was a pup!   The hard part was sneaking up to club range!

[GunClick Rick]

 

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Where old Daniel lives he probably sees more wild life than i do.

There's a beautiful Cooper's Hawk that regularly patrols around here.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to capture a pic of her.  Cooper's Hawks mostly hunt other birds, so usually she flies low and fast through the yards, just barely above the privacy fences, looking to catch a dove or something on the ground.  We had to stop putting out birdseed because of her. 

By the way, I thought for a second this morning that we had one of those saber-toothed felines in the house.  Just before the alarm went off, Luna knocked over the lamp on SWMBO's bedside table.  Plumb scared the daylight into me!!!