Re: my bad vision/check your window wells

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

We used to have birds fall down our chimney pipe here
in this house, before we had it closed to where they
can't fall in....they fell into the wood stove. Not an
easy thing to try and catch them in their. The best
was at night and blind them with the flash light.

Trish

Did you catch him?
--- Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I just had another proof of my bad vision today.
> This morning when I 
> went downstairs I found a crow perched on the lip of
> a bowl of baby 
> nothos (killifish). Yes, a crow, and to top it off
> he's been in the fish 
> room several days. Thought I felt a whoosh by my
> head, but couldn't see 
> anything, must have been him flying by. I have no
> peripheral vision at 
> all and black birds don't flush out of dark corners
> unless they think 
> you are about to get them, so he probably just
> hunkered down in a corner 
> while I worked in the room. Boy must he have had a
> good time, all the 
> premium grade bird seed... plenty of water... and I
> feed the birds 
> hardboiled eggs and sprouts which frequently get
> left out on the table 
> to acclimate to room temperature. (cold food bad for
> birds)
> So I guess it's time for everyone to check their
> window wells for 
> fledgling birds, toads, salamanders, and other stray
> wildlife. They get 
> in and get stuck, if they are not lucky enough to
> have the window opened 
> they just die... I remember back home when I was a
> kid we would find 
> about a dozen crispy critters in each window well
> when we checked. 
> Mostly amphibeans.
> 
> Kate
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