Nature sounds!!

[John Kuthe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZL8y_zvG8

I now have them playing in my room AND out back via my new JBL Control X weather resistant speakers I just installed UNDER my deck!

This house is REALLY coming together!! :-)

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and Suburban Renewalist!

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 8:18:58 AM UTC-4, John Kuthe wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZL8y_zvG8
>
> I now have them playing in my room AND out back via my new JBL Control X weather resistant speakers I just installed UNDER my deck!
>
> This house is REALLY coming together!! :-)

I generally just open a window. The birds make a terrific racket, and it's
live and unscripted.

Cindy Hamilton

[John Kuthe]

But I do NOT have a stream flowing under my deck!!

And I can't find my hat, but I'm gonna go outside now and it's gonna sound very much like I DO! Have a stream flowing in my back yard!

John Kuthe...

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Have the plumber to divert that sewer pipe to flow under your deck and while
he's at it, he can make it an open sewer pipe.

[John Kuthe]

I have some easy Reggae playing out there right now!

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and Having More Fun Than YOU!

[dsi1]

The funny thing about this rock is that the Hawaiians are simpatico with the Jamaicans. Jawaiian music has pretty much dominated Hawaiian music for the last 20 years or so. It's roots are planted firmly in Jamaican reggae.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGl4AT0bpp8

[Alex]

How's that roof and sewer?

[Sqwertz]

Sounds from your coal-burning speakers and your coal-burning stereo
and posted about with your coal-burning laptop. Climate activism at
its best!

-sw

[Sqwertz]

You're not even there listening to your cool-burning speakers?

-sw

[tert in seattle]

I heard this sound like someone was throwing something at a downstairs
window, which is just above ground level. I went in to check it out and
there was a bird either attacking its reflection in the window or trying
to perch on a grille or I'm not sure what. It kept at it for a while.

[penm...@aol.com]

I drill a hole at the edge of old CDs and hang them from black sewing
thread in my windows... they move with the slightest air currents and
birds don't try to fly through the glass. Also don't keep house
plants on window sills or anything that looks like vegetation or a
perch. And since I have window shades I tape silhouettes of raptors
on the backs facing out so even when only half way down the raptors
are visible. There are web sites where you can print them. Millions
of migrating birds meet their demise every year from slamming into
windows, especially windows in tall buildings in big sities. There
are wildlife organizations tying to get those buildings to comply with
installing bird safe glass.
There are double and triple glazed windows now that have images
embedded between the panes that are only visable from the outside,
windows can also be automaticaly tinted like eyeglasses, and the
visable images can be changed too.
When a bird strikes a first floor window most times it will be okay,
birds at that altitude aren't flying very fast. They may get knocked
out for a couple of minutes but if left alone they will revive and be
fine. But at second story windows and higher birds will hit windows
at greater veloscity and most will die on impact.
It costs nothing, PROTECT YOUR WINDOWS FROM BIRD STRIKES.

[barbie gee]

Yup, every spring before the trees fill in, a bird or two will bonk into a
2nd floor window. I have some decals on the windows, but I think they're
too small. Fortunately, there's only a fatality every few years, but it's
sad.

[jmcquown]

A couple of years ago there was a bird which I later identified as a
brown thrasher regularly flying into my bedroom window early in the
morning. Over and over. The blinds were closed so it's not as if it
thought it could fly through and keep on going. It was seeing itself
reflected and thought was another bird invading it's territory, so it
tried to attack it. Guess I shouldn't keep the windows so clean. ;)

Jill

[jmcquown]

On 4/23/2019 4:48 PM, penm...@aol.com wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:08:24 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> <te...@ftupet.com> wrote:
>
>> angelica...@yahoo.com writes:
>>> On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 8:18:58 AM UTC-4, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZL8y_zvG8
>>>>
>>>> I now have them playing in my room AND out back via my new JBL Control
>>> X weather resistant speakers I just installed UNDER my deck!
>>>>
>>>> This house is REALLY coming together!! :-)
>>>
>>> I generally just open a window. The birds make a terrific racket, and it's
>>> live and unscripted.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>>
>> I heard this sound like someone was throwing something at a downstairs
>> window, which is just above ground level. I went in to check it out and
>> there was a bird either attacking its reflection in the window or trying
>> to perch on a grille or I'm not sure what. It kept at it for a while.
>
> I drill a hole at the edge of old CDs and hang them from black sewing
> thread in my windows... they move with the slightest air currents and
> birds don't try to fly through the glass. Also don't keep house
> plants on window sills or anything that looks like vegetation or a
> perch. And since I have window shades I tape silhouettes of raptors
> on the backs facing out so even when only half way down the raptors
> are visible.

(snippage)

Do you really have that much of a problem with birds flying into your
windows? Gotta hang old CD's from black thread? You need silouettes of
raptors to keep birds away? Your experience is quite different from mine.

The entire back wall of my house is glass. I have a bird feeder on a
shepherd's hook just off the patio and a small bird bath on the patio.
When I'm sitting at my desk I watch them. They don't fly into the
windows. I guess the birds down here are smarter than yours. ;)

Jill

[Dave Smith]

On 2019-05-01 9:54 a.m., jmcquown wrote:

> Do you really have that much of a problem with birds flying into your
> windows?  Gotta hang old CD's from black thread?  You need silouettes of > raptors to keep birds away?  Your experience is quite different from
mine.

I hear birds hitting my windows often enough. My desktop is in the
family room, next to the living room/dining room and I occasionally hear
them hitting the dining room window. If they are doing it while I am
here they are probably doing it at other times too.

I know have a scare owl roosting on a pole by the patio. Dr. Who is on
duty to scare the squirrels, and he is doing a pretty good job.

>
> The entire back wall of my house is glass.  I have a bird feeder on a
> shepherd's hook just off the patio and a small bird bath on the patio.
> When I'm sitting at my desk I watch them.  They don't fly into the
> windows.  I guess the birds down here are smarter than yours. ;)

Birds aren't terribly bright. They are very territorial. While some
birds may not realize that the glass is solid and fly into it by
mistake, they can also be territorial and attack their own image. At
the place where my son was living before he bought his house there was a
cardinal that was forever attacking the mirrors on his car.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:54:38 AM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:

> The entire back wall of my house is glass. I have a bird feeder on a
> shepherd's hook just off the patio and a small bird bath on the patio.
> When I'm sitting at my desk I watch them. They don't fly into the
> windows. I guess the birds down here are smarter than yours. ;)

The most frequent cause for birds flying into our patio door is when they're
panicked by a raptor showing up in the yard.

Cindy Hamilton

[Gary]

jmcquown wrote:
>

> Do you really have that much of a problem with birds flying into your
> windows? Gotta hang old CD's from black thread? You need silouettes of
> raptors to keep birds away? Your experience is quite different from mine.
>
> The entire back wall of my house is glass. I have a bird feeder on a
> shepherd's hook just off the patio and a small bird bath on the patio.
> When I'm sitting at my desk I watch them. They don't fly into the
> windows. I guess the birds down here are smarter than yours. ;)

I've seen a big problem with that at one customers house. On the
sunny afternoon west side windows, they had a glass company come
in and install basically window sunglasses. Thin sheet of plastic
that's applied to the inside of the window, sticks right on the
glass. This cuts down the UV rays and helps prevent fabric inside
from getting bleached out over years.

The outside facing surface of this plastic is like a normal
mirror. Pretty much the same thing as mirrored sunglasses. Since
they live right next to a state park with plenty of trees, birds
flying east see the house but as the windows mirrow the trees,
etc, the birds are fooled and think they are flying into a portal
of natural state park. Their windows have constant bird strikes.
Almost on a daily basis.

[jmcquown]

There are raptors here, sure. Owls, hawks and even bald eagles. But
they're mostly after larger, meatier prey. Like squirrels and raccoons,
the occasional opossum. They also tend to be nocturnal... the many
birds that visit my patio are in tucked into their nests by the time the
raptors go out hunting.

I don't have birds flying into my windows on a regular basis.

Jill

[U.S. Janet B.]

On Wed, 1 May 2019 11:13:12 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

the hawks here are daytime hunters. I have trees right up close to
the house all around the creek. It is noisy here with squirrel trash
talk, bird chitter. When there is a raptor overhead there is a quick
quiet rush and then dead silence. It's quite amazing.
Janet US

[jmcquown]

I'm not saying the hawks don't hunt in the daytime. Of course they do.
And yes, the dead silence when one is hunting is amazing. The birds warn
each other about a predator and they go into hiding.

Jill

[Cindy Hamilton]

We get red-tailed hawks and Cooper's hawks. They'll eat something as
small as a goldfinch.

We fairly frequently get nonfatal bird strikes on the patio door,
and a few times a year it's more severe.

Cindy Hamilton

[barbie gee]

I have a huge tree outside my windows, and I think the reflection of the
sky and tree confuses them. I found a poor dead bird yesterday on the
back porch, probably bonked his head on the 2nd story window.

[Nancy2]

The last few years I was working (on campus in a building just north of the Old Cap), there was a red-tailed
hawk who I could see daily, in good weather, perched right at the base of the flagpole, casting his sharp
vision around the grass and shrubs around the campus buildings that shared the space, looking for mice,
shrews, and the like. It was really neat to watch him dive after something he spied. I never did see his
nest, but if they are anything like our bald eagles, the nest could be miles away.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=OjjXXPTPBJCgswX0r7GoCA&q=image+iowa+city+old+capitol+building&oq=image+Iowa+City+Old+Capitol&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.1.1.33i22i29i30l7j33i299.6183.17481..24663...0.0..0.478.4044.1j24j1j0j1......0....1.......8..41j0i131j46j0j46i131j46i275j0i10j0i22i30j0i22i10i30.y6To6wcQF60#mlpv=0

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