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(L.A.B. or Jerry if this is not appropriate here in the Commando forum, though I think anyone with a Commando would understand.) Then move it to the Pub.



A poem by Ontario Norton Owner member,

It is called:



The Roll-out



Winter is defeated

Work on steeds completed

Juices flow in the trees and bees

Winter broken on his knees!



Equinox, oh equinox!

Please heat up our engine blocks!

The sun will use her magic wand

And change to green the Promised Land!


Carbs are tickled oil is fresh

Spotless clean the filter mesh

A Cardinal is making noise (he whistles)

I kick the starter with good poise



A silence follows what is wrong?

Is my leg still useful strong?

Keep the faith on second kick

Proper sweet-spot did the trick



Metal iron obsolete

Transformed my joy for being complete

And fired up at minus three

A rite of spring

For you and me.


— by Klaus Kaak




Note on Northern Cardinal:

taken from the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds Eastern Region

Where you read (he Whistles) the voice of the cardinal sounds like Rich what-cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer; purty-purty-purty-purty or sweet-sweet-sweet, sweet.

I hope you enjoyed the poem as much as I did this day. I have a camera video but I am a luddite in video posting but if someone knows how to do it. I would post it as well.

Cheers,

Thomas
 
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That's great! I am too far north to have Cardinals,but await the to hear a Varied Thrush...equinox has come and gone, but here the winter lingers on, the roads are still of snow and ice, but longer days are mighty nice, the sun feels warm upon my face...just waiting to get out and race!
 
I have been feeding cardinals in back yard for about 10 years now , one Sunday morning in Feb. back then , looked out and saw red bird feeding on ground in the snow , googled what they liked to eat and have had them around yard ever since ....
 
We have those little red buggers all year 'round in Virginia. They're very territorial and like to peck at themselves in the windows. It's mostly the Robins that herald our early spring. Then later the hummers. And the continual Canada Geese, I'm sure they're in the North Country too otherwise why would they call them that? Thanks for that.
 
I feed birds just because I like them. There's mourning dove, whitewing, cardinals, redwing black birds, grackles, Inca dove, & a host of small finch type critters frequenting my small back yard. For all we take from this world we absolutely must give back. I choose birds, but not geese because I'd eat them if there were any about. That especially goes for honkers....lesser & greater inclusive, but foremost speckle belly. Once on the ground they're safe and I would just feed them also. You don't have to be up north to have plenty of cardinals farting around. A couple nest near my front door every year and have to ensure fire ant keep clear of the tree because of the hatchlings. Used to lose them to the beasties.
 
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A lot of lazy geese overwinter here in the cornfields .... one bird can sh——t several lbs per day .... dirty birds , yup Cardinals here year round , funniest birds in back yard are the pheasants 4 hens and 2 or 3 cocks , we call all the males Tommy after a friend who tends to strut around ... we also have red tail hawks, Merlins , owls and many bald eagles passing by to fish the river at bottom of hill .... then there all the different types of wood peckers that like to hammer the transformers on power poles out front early .....
 
I used to feed the birds until the bears started showing up on the deck tipping over the can with seed in it. It was a big bear too, about 3' high on all fours, maybe 600lbs, somewhere I have a picture of it. My wife wanted to open the door and take the picture. No, no, no. Can you imagine a bear loose in the house? It had to climb a tree to get on the deck too, no stairs. The second one I saw after it landed on the deck and I looked out and it was sitting on his butt on the railing like it was a man with his feed down the outside and his arms on the railing about to jump off.
 
They use brooms around here to chase bear off doorsteps ... keep feed in garden shed out back in tight plastic garbage can , they don’t come around much
 
Now we are kicking bears off our porch. :mad: this was about a poem to those who care....From the man himself.
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enjoy.
Cheers,
Thomas
 
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On the fields to the SE of us, (the Skagit Valley) we get hundreds of thousands of Canada geese. It's a very large agricultural area, many square miles. A major crop is tulips, which are just starting to bloom. The daffodils are beginning to wilt. The entire month of April is the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival - we get many thousands of visitors. Traffic can get very difficult to navigate - it's not unusual to have 20-mile back-ups on I-5 approaching the exits to the area, particularly on weekends.

A lot of the geese have already headed North for the summer, maybe to avoid the visitors!
 
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