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Grackles and starlings are both black birds with iridescent feathers that are often seen together. However, they have distinct physical characteristics, behaviors, and origins.
starlings have dark eyes, pinkish legs and a short, slender yellow bill (breeding birds), whereas the common grackle has dark legs, dark bill and yellow …Dec
No wonder I couldn't recognize it, it is not common to my area. According to the BC rare bird info only 8 sightings have been documented of the Great-Tailed Grackle.
Thanks for that FP
The iridescent feathers are spiffy. They seem larger than the average type black bird that I'm familiar with.
The black birds around here are very agressive when nesting. Thanks for the info, when it comes to things, knowledge is a gift.
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They got this weird 7-10 day deal that your monthly bill can fall into or out of…. If it falls in there your monthly bill will be taken care of properly…if it falls outside of that… freakin all hell breaks loose…they could take anything from a few cents to almost all out for the current bill and then the balance pounds your next bill…that’s the crapshoot…I have autopay…a couple of months for me goes by like normal and then I’ll have a bill that I’ll look up and it says we’ll deduct this certain amount on this particular day…when that day arrives they takeout their arbitrary amount and not say anything until the next billing and then I’ve got this outrageous amount they are charging me which is combined with what they should’ve taken out originally and combined it with the current bill…And to top it all off they installed a “SMART METER” that didn’t solve a god damn thing…My lead singer doesn’t usually get upset but his recent bill was like 800 or 900 bux and he doesn’t even grow…
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Yeah I’ve gotta renew my passport in 2026…got it in 2016 to prove my citizenship so I could get my Social Security…which is a whole other ridiculous storyHarley and I have rescheduled our canceled 35th anniversary vacation trip to Las Vegas to the 1st week of June, so we're going to have to jump through all those hoops to get real ID compliant.
The "smart meter"is definitely a benefit to the utility company, not so sure about the customer.
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Tails are too long to be starlings
I love good old smuggling stories.That seeds came from bags developed by the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, shipped by Cubans from Jamaica to a couple of miles off the coast of Miami, offloaded to surfers in sailboats, brought in through Haulover Cut, past Beer Can Island into the Maule Lake Marina, to be distributed up and down the East coast. Was known as Gainesville Green at UF. I wasn't involved but knew and worked with many of those who were.
I know for a fact a lot of it made its way up to Bayside and Bensonhurst.
Word up here was that top fuel dragster racer Connie Kalitta used to kick out bales from his Kalitta Air cargo planes over Ford Lake on approach to Willow Run Airport. Guys in boats waiting below would scoop em up and be on their way.
Not sure how true that is but makes for a good story. Probably was just landing and offloading at the airport.
Never did get around to it. Fell off my radar I guess. Just checked, still have the bark. I wonder if it goes bad as it gets older.
saw the grateful dead in the alligator Alley gym @ university of Florida in Gainesville on November 29, 1980. I taped a pretty well renowned recording of that show.
Grateful Dead Live at Alligator Alley Gymnasium, U of Florida on 1980-11-29
by Grateful DeadPublication date 1980-11-29 ( check for other copies)Topics Live concert
Collection GratefulDeadBand/Artist Grateful DeadResource DeadLists ProjectItem Size 1.5G
Alabama Getaway-> Promised Land, Candyman, Minglewood Blues, Row Jimmy, Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues, Althea-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Don't Ease Me In Shakedown Street-> Franklin's Tower-> Estimated Prophet-> He's Gone-> Truckin'-> Drums-> The Other One-> Stella Blue-> Good Lovin', E: Casey Jones
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FOB - Beyer M-160's> Sony TC-D5> CDR via Alesis Masterlink; Mics were on a 15'? pole at the SBD; Taped by Jim Wise; via Darrin Sacks, Rango Keshavan and Dankstar; note upgrade relative to previous shn setAddeddate 2004-08-10 13:36:36 Has_mp3 1 Identifier gd80-11-29.wise.sacks.2409.sbeok.shnfLineage FOB - Beyer M-160's> Sony TC-D5> CDR via Alesis Masterlink Location Gainesville, FL Shndiscs 2 Source Audience Recording: Beyer M-160's Taped by Jim Wise Type sound Venue Alligator Alley Gymnasium, U of Florida Year 1980
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Subject: First generation
This show was done by JW long long time ago and Jim being who Jim was,was kind enough to make a copy a few days after the show,We both grew up in the same town and we were dating sisters at the time of this recording, so each time I hear it those memories in time flood back into my aging brain to bring back a simpler time less cluttered as life tends to become as we age,thank you Jim I still have the cassette and what a show it was!!
Josh
My dad said Starlings used to blacken the sky when he was a kid, here in PA. He was born in 1926.
I think since hemp was eradicated, that killed a lot of them (they ate the seeds)!!!
I used to see flocks go by for what seemed like hours in the 70s. Now your lucky to see a small flock like the one today.
The current population is half the size it was 50 years ago – down from an estimated 166.2 million breeding birds in 1970 to 85.1 million.
Starlings were first introduced to North America in the 1890s. In 1890, a New York pharmaceutical manufacturer named Eugene Schieffelin embarked on a mission to introduce all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to North America. Schieffelin was the chairman of the American Acclimatization Society, a group dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America. He released 100 starlings in New York’s Central Park in 1890 and another 40 in 1891. These birds are believed to be the founders of the North American starling population.
- 1903 – Starlings observed in Chicago, having traveled from New York along railroad and telegraph lines.
- 1915 – Starlings observed in Colorado and had reached California by 1942.
- 1928 – Starlings first recorded in Texas after migrating up the Mississippi Flyway.
- 1931 – Estimated starling population in North America reaches 1 million.
- 1937 – Starlings observed across Alberta, Canada after moving north along the Rocky Mountains.
- 1942 – Starlings first recorded in Florida after spreading along the Atlantic Coast.
- 1946 – Starling population in North America estimated at over 50 million.
Starlings Are Declining in North America | Outside My Window
www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org
It makes me wonder will there be any wildlife left anywhere in 100 years?
I first went in1982 - to exhibit at CES. We were high end stuff so we had exhibit rooms in the Riviera that year. The porn was on the mezzanine level so the hotel was pretty crazed. After that, I went almost every year until 2019 – maybe missing 2 or 3 years along the way – exhibiting in the Sahara, the Hilton – both ballroom and suites, Alexis Park, the Mirage, the Venetian and of course, the Convention Center – both Central and South Halls. As well as the winter CES, I worked the NAB broadcasting show 3 or 4 times, some other lifestyle show that I can’t even remember the name of a couple of times and we did our own Pro event at the recording studio in the Palms one year. All in all, I have spent over 7 months of my life in Vegas without ever living there. I knew the best butcher and the best liquor stores – and at the end - a good cannabis store. After years and years of hotels, I got so sick of them that I started renting houses for our group. Yeah, I have done Vegas.
And my shortest trip to Vegas was about 2 hours. One year, GES (the show services company) forgot to ship a banner that we needed at the NAMM show – which was always a week or two after CES. To solve it, I flew from LA to Vegas on the 1st flight of the day, picked up a rental car, got the banner at GES – who were just north of the airport and drove back to the show in Anaheim – arriving around noon. The car – a Ford POS – had a governor that maxed at . . .
Save wildlife, PLANT HEMP !!!
I have never been to Vegas, but would love to. I have been to Atlantic City, before almost all the states had casinos. There are tons of them here now, some combined with the Horse Race Track..
When I applied for my cannabis personal production licence in 2010 I got rid of just about everything cannabis related. Kept a pipe a friend made. I found a couple of photos from the 60s but my camera broke and the focusing is off. Anyhow, here is a poor photo from the late 60s.
She or he I'm not sure to be honest..can't understand you with that accent brah...The fries!!!
