Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself

[Whateverist]

I clicked the link to your Flickr page...there's one photo taken from what looks like a mountaintop.
Is that your view?  If Yes, I'm never speaking to you again.

 

Possibly pictures from my inlaw's house from before the government took it over.  They built the last house in a place called Duck Cove which is just north of Tamales State Park.  It will become part of either that park or the National Seashore.  We were lucky to have holidays here and visit frequently.  That is the only kind of second house I ever want, one where someone else lives there and does the upkeep.

I know hummingbird nests are TINY.  Like a ping-pong ball size.
but while I've seen hummingbirds, I've never personally seen a nest, IRL, first-hand;
(only in documentaries).

your pic of the nest, is that lichen on the sides?  If Yes, how charming is that??

Yeah, they really are gorgeous little things and I also like the lichen.  If click back on that photo you'll find one somewhere near there that shows the nest better.

I've never seen nor heard of a Mesia.  Gorgeous.
Do they have a pretty song?

Distinctive at least.

https://youtu.be/1IHD88hKKOs

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It's nice to live on a flyway.
I live near some major bodies of water, (near Toronto, Great Lakes)
so I get to see lots of birds,
and Night Herons are one of them, as well as Great Blue Herons and White Morph Herons.

Last couple of summers I was pleasantly surprised to even see a couple of Sandhill Cranes.

When I was growing up, you never saw birds like that around here;
but since they've made an effort to clean up the Great Lakes since the 1950s
the bird varieties have been astonishing.

We now get to see Bald Eagles, wild turkeys, Mute Swans, Kingfishers (they are funny little birds),

and in recent years, quite a few Orioles...which are really neat birds with colourful plumage,
who build distinctive "hanging" nests.

we have lots of hawks of course, and Peregrine Falcons, and of course Canada Geese;

and recently I heard a pair of Great Horned Owls late at night, hooting up a storm in a tree in my backyard.
And my window was closed, and the TV was on.  But I still heard them.

I love birdwatching.

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Sounds like you're in a much richer environment for birds than I am.  Would love to hear Great Horned Owls in my backyard, though I'll bet they're messy.  We don't get Peregrines but there is a Cooper's or Sharpshinned hawk that plies the garbage bins for the bakery across the creek for rats.  One of these once hit a Mourning Dove in my backyard just as I opened my backdoor.  Looked like a pillow fight.  There are Red tail hawks in the hills but no Eagles, bald or otherwise.  The only place I've seen an Oriole was in Hawaii.  I used to keep weavers and they would make nests somewhat like you describe for the Orioles.  Of course Orioles are much bigger birds and much more brightly colored.  I've not really gotten into bird watching in any sort of formal way but I like seeing and trying to identify birds in my garden and on walks.

I have to tell you, though, I didn't really understand this sentence:

" Given my mother, it was hard to believe that there was anything about sex which was appealing to women. "

To say my mother was prudish would be an enormous understatement.  But it wasn't in a disdainful way, more like revulsion.  But I got to work through all that and it turns out my mother was missing out on some pretty good stuff.