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glencar Ex Member	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #25 - Mar 15^th, 2009 at 4:06pm All's well ends well...
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Re: This is for the birds! (nsc)
Reply #26 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 7:57pm

My brand new camera arrived today, and I was anxious to get some good pics of mama & the youngins.
After getting home from work, I set up a ladder and saw mama staring back at me from a nearby branch.
When I was high enough to see down in the nest, I found nothing there.
Later, my neighbor from across the courtyard told me she was watching the nest from her balcony this afternoon.
While mama was out, presumably getting food, a couple of crows swooped in and snatched the young birds. you made a grown man cry

It was a good Monday until now.

“What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there,” he says. “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.” - Keef

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platter Ex Member	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #27 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:02pm fucking shit. damn those crows.
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sweetcharmedlife Agent Provocateur Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,932 San Mateo Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #28 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:02pm Bummer. Maybe some new birds will show up.
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Some Guy Resident Cretin Offline Posts: 15,828 Atlanta Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #29 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:08pm How well do we know this neighbor?
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Edith Grove Agent Provocateur Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #30 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:12pm Some Guy wrote on Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:08pm: How well do we know this neighbor? She's an artist, an animal lover, and she wanted me to help her rig an umbrella over the nest the other day when it was raining. It took some convincing that the umbrella wasn't really necessary. :smile
Back to top	“What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there,” he says. “All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they’re happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can’t tell one note from another.” - Keef IP Logged

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Re: This is for the birds! (nsc)
Reply #31 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:14pm

Edith Grove wrote on Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:12pm:

Some Guy wrote on Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:08pm:

How well do we know this neighbor?

She's an artist, an animal lover, and she wanted me to help her rig an umbrella over the nest the other day when it was raining.
It took some convincing that the umbrella wasn't really necessary. :smile

if and when you get a chance...take some photos of the nest site and the mother bird. you did your best. thank you for posting this thread.

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glencar Ex Member	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #32 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:14pm Wait till next year!
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Reply #33 - Mar 16^th, 2009 at 8:39pm

Thanks for the good words guys.

It may seem silly to some, but I watched mama take care of that nest, right outside my front door, every day for a week. Who knows exactly how long she'd been there.
I obviously knew something was wrong when I realized mama was standing over an empty nest, and it made me sick when I learned what happened. Cry

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Some Guy Resident Cretin Offline Posts: 15,828 Atlanta Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #34 - Mar 17^th, 2009 at 7:09am It's ok, you'll get a nest of Eagles next time.
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platter Ex Member	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #35 - Mar 17^th, 2009 at 4:00pm crows can be bothersome to a lot of incubating birds. they annoy the heck out of the nesting bald eagles in the channel islands.
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Ten Thousand Motels Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 1,797 Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #36 - Mar 18^th, 2009 at 3:44am Quote: fucking shit. damn those crows. WTF?....crows gotta eat too..... ....its the The Law of the Jungle...
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sweetcharmedlife Agent Provocateur Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,932 San Mateo Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #37 - Mar 18^th, 2009 at 9:13am Quote: crows can be bothersome to a lot of incubating birds. they annoy the heck out of the nesting bald eagles in the channel islands. Yeah those Crowes. They can be Hard to Handle.
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Re: This is for the birds! (nsc)
Reply #38 - Mar 29^th, 2009 at 3:35pm

As per Platter's request, pictures of the scene of the crime:

I used a website that helps identify species by narrowing down specific features and came up with this: http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/682/_/Eastern_Phoebe.aspx
The bird in the drawing looks very similar to mine, except mine had more light-brown coloring.
I last saw mama bird on the evening of the snatching. She hasn't been around since.

My courtyard in the French Quarter, New Orleans:
The hanging basket in the upper-left of the trees is where mama built her nest.
I never saw a daddy bird. Perhaps he's a crackhead on welfare.
My neighbor's balcony, where she witnessed the bird-snatching from, is hidden by the trees on the right.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/IMG_0001.jpgt=1238357968

Here's the nest. Two weeks after the snatching the twigs mama placed are still there.
I'm going to clear out those twigs after posting this and water that plant for the first time in nearly a month.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/IMG_0002.jpgt=1238358846

Like someone said: "Maybe next year!"

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platter Ex Member	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #39 - Mar 29^th, 2009 at 6:34pm nice pictures. your lillies are up ALREADY? that is a lilly isn't it?
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Edith Grove Agent Provocateur Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #40 - Mar 29^th, 2009 at 6:39pm Quote: that is a lilly isn't it? Honestly, I don't know. I share the courtyard with my neighbor, and it's hers. Only the hanging plants are mine, and an old girlfriend of mine started those. I know about as much of plants as I do birds. :smile
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platter Ex Member	Re: This is for the birds! (nsc) Reply #41 - Mar 29^th, 2009 at 6:48pm i am pretty sure it's a lilly. there are different types of them. they do not flower here in ny until july/aug.
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