Category: Birds

Beautiful Backyard Bird Watching

| July 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

Bird watching has become a backyard hobby for many people and bird feeders are the best way to attract these birds. Different birds are attracted to different seeds. Acorns, for example, attract chickadees, jays, quails, and woodpeckers. Millet, on the other hand, attracts doves, finches, pheasants, native sparrows, and Carolina wrens. Seeds from a black [...]

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Hunting Dog Training ? Some Things to Consider

| June 29, 2010 | 0 Comments

When people hunt small prey, they usually use hunting dogs to bring their kills. If hunting dogs didn’t exist, hunters would need to go find the prey they hit on their own, losing time. A hunting dog that is trained properly will reduce the amount of useless work that the hunter needs to do. But, [...]

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Social Distancing is the Key to Minimising Bird Flu Infection in your Staff and Protecting your Small Business

| June 28, 2010 | 0 Comments

Second to frequent hand washing, the next best way to protect yourself and your staff is to minimise or eliminate close contact and proximity to others. This is ‘Social Distancing’ and is the term being used more and more frequently as people learn what measures they can take to try to minimise the chance of [...]

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Squirrel stealing bird food

| June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

A squirrel stealing bird food by climbing on a bird feeder and making bird food drop down

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Going Bird Watching In La

| June 25, 2010 | 0 Comments

Some of you might think that it is impossible to do some bird watching in Los Angeles or in any other city. But there are places that you can visit making it possible for you to enjoy this hobby. The first is the Arboretum of Los Angeles County. This is a 127 acre garden that [...]

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Me eating bird food

| June 25, 2010 | 5 Comments

My sister dared me to eat some bird food from my dove Jake

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The Miracle of Talking Birds

| June 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

Each and every species on Earth has been created with miraculous characteristics and wondrous skills. Even in one single living species, we can find abundant proof of God’s magnificent creation. According to one verse of the Qur’an: There is no creature crawling on the Earth or flying creature, flying on its wings, who are [...]

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Squirrel steal bird food

| June 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

We have a bird feeder hanging off the deck where we watch birds in the morning. One morning Melissa and I saw this squirrel jump out onto the feeder and hang from his feet to eat the food. Oh, the truck is in the back yard because my dad is building a stone wall and [...]

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The Origins of the 1918 Flu and Where Bird Flu is Going Now

| June 22, 2010 | 0 Comments

The 1918 flu was the most lethal disease pandemic in history — killing 20 to 100 million people worldwide, most of them in the Fall of 1918. It’s now being examined and debated with new urgency, thanks to the threat of a bird flu pandemic. What can the 1918 flu tell us about the current [...]

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Chayse in Upland Bird Training w/ Jessie

| June 21, 2010 | 0 Comments

Chayse in Upland Bird Training w/Jessie

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How to make bird food

| June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

How to make bird food

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The Worst Danger From a Bird Flu Pandemic Could Make People Sick for Many Generations

| June 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

One extremely huge security risk that would come from a bird flu pandemic is nuclear power plants. Right now, about 17% of the world’s electricity is produced by nuclear power plants. There’re over 400 nuclear power plants currently in operation around the world — over 100 of them in the United States alone. The total [...]

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Training a Parrot to Talk

| June 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

The remarkable ability of a parrot to mimic voices has to be the main reasons why parrots are so popular as pets. Whenever a friend visits our home, one of the first questions asked about our African Grey is if he can speak. I have to tell them that, sometimes, I wish he would [...]

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