Good morning, GN. Last night Mrs Sven heard an odd bird call and tracked it down to a Cooper’s Hawk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHe3eJFGwo He was hanging out in the yard and kept on for a good half hour.
Happy Bird-droppings Wednesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven, and Mac!
We have Red-shouldered Hawks in our neighborhood and occasionally a Cooper’s Hawk. There are two rats that visit the area under our bird feeder each night. I wish they would take care of them, in the have them for dinner sense.
I’m no good at finding any new/recent shows or movies to watch, so I’m rewatching the series Hell on Wheels which I haven’t watched in several years.
The Civil War is in the past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can’t put it behind him. Fresh are the horrific memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of the Union soldiers, an act that sets Bohannon on a course of revenge. This contemporary Western tells the story of his journey, a story that rides on Union Pacific’s construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Bohannon’s westward travels take him to a lawless melting pot of a town called `Hell on Wheels’, which moves with the construction of the railroad.
I recall it being quite good, but the first episode was even better than I remembered. Worth watching if you haven’t seen it or even if you have.
I have started watching Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It is looking interesting so far in the first two episodes. Elena and I are watching A Discovery of Witches together. We are about half way through. It is fair. We are about half way through and I told Elena I thought it must be written by a woman. It has a tone I see in romance stories written by women. I looked the books up and indeed they were written by a woman. She was also a producer on the show and took a hands on approach. Elena at first thought I was pulling her chain but I described the view that I was seeing and asked her if that was not in fact similar in her soap operas and she had to agree. Men can be powerful but are not strong in character or mature. They need a woman to help them be the strong men they should be, even a man who is 1,500 years old and a sheltered and naive young woman. I see it often in stories written by women, even in some classic science fiction. Kind of silly, but common. I don’t read much classic literature, other than Shakespeare or classic Greek, so I don’t know if that applies then, but it seems common in modern writing. I think I even see it some in Ayn Rand’s work, that I have read.
Good morning, GN. Last night Mrs Sven heard an odd bird call and tracked it down to a Cooper’s Hawk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFHe3eJFGwo He was hanging out in the yard and kept on for a good half hour.
Can those carry off coons? Just asking for a friend.
I question the motives of your “friend” in asking that question.
As you should!
Happy Bird-droppings Wednesday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven, and Mac!
We have Red-shouldered Hawks in our neighborhood and occasionally a Cooper’s Hawk. There are two rats that visit the area under our bird feeder each night. I wish they would take care of them, in the have them for dinner sense.
Have you ever heard the Cooper’s hawk’s song?
Yes, I have, but I didn’t know what it was until I listened to your clip.
I’m no good at finding any new/recent shows or movies to watch, so I’m rewatching the series Hell on Wheels which I haven’t watched in several years.
I recall it being quite good, but the first episode was even better than I remembered. Worth watching if you haven’t seen it or even if you have.
I have started watching Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. It is looking interesting so far in the first two episodes. Elena and I are watching A Discovery of Witches together. We are about half way through. It is fair. We are about half way through and I told Elena I thought it must be written by a woman. It has a tone I see in romance stories written by women. I looked the books up and indeed they were written by a woman. She was also a producer on the show and took a hands on approach. Elena at first thought I was pulling her chain but I described the view that I was seeing and asked her if that was not in fact similar in her soap operas and she had to agree. Men can be powerful but are not strong in character or mature. They need a woman to help them be the strong men they should be, even a man who is 1,500 years old and a sheltered and naive young woman. I see it often in stories written by women, even in some classic science fiction. Kind of silly, but common. I don’t read much classic literature, other than Shakespeare or classic Greek, so I don’t know if that applies then, but it seems common in modern writing. I think I even see it some in Ayn Rand’s work, that I have read.