I just aerated the lawn while raining. :D
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I just aerated the lawn while raining. :D
Saw a beautiful hummer up in WA a couple of days ago that had a shiny pinkish head. Amazing color.
Hope all the Ho's had a happy safe 4th!
Watched a younger tarantula do some creepy shit around the house tonight. I get being able to scale siding if you're a bigger spider, but it kinda surprised me he could cling to a smooth electrical panel/pvc conduit.
He came into the garage twice and I got him back out without hurting him...little bastard.
It was raining like crazy yesterday. So I did not turn on the lawn. Soil is extremely dry.
Many states with same temperature as we do usually turn on their sprinklers 1-2/week.
Cost of living in place with low humidity.
Just wait, until one of those tarantula wasp goes after them. The king snake make an appearance, lately?Quote:
Originally Posted by OtterbatHellcat
How's the truck project going?
Haven't seen a king lately, or the sonoran coral that was hanging around.
Finally got all the titles and three of the four plates remaining. The truck plate seems held up due to the "vanity factor".
Two wiring glitches are messin' with me on the truck, I'll get to 'em eventually.
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Originally Posted by buffalobo
Buffalobo, my suggestion is to start with a good field guide. The only one I recommend for a primary guide is the Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd edition. Other guides can be useful for further study but this is the best. https://www.amazon.com/Sibley-Guide-Birds-2nd/dp/030795790X
If you want more detail about hummingbirds I recommend A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Hummingbirds-America-Peterson-Guides/dp/0618024964
Sibley will give you enough to ID most birds. I don't use any particular ID websites but there are countless ones out there. A good friend has http://www.hummingbirds.net, and it's pretty good.
In Colorado, hummer ID is pretty simple as there are only two breeding species normally found in the state, the Broad-tailed Hummingbird of the mountains, and the Black-chinned Hummingbird of the plains, suburbs and dry mesas. Broad-tailed can be seen anywhere in migration. A very small breeding population of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds is likely present around Lamar.
The only other regular hummingbird species are the migrant Rufous Hummingbird and the Calliope Hummingbird. With rare exception both are seen only in the fall or southbound migration beginning around July 4 through mid September.
So, search on the four regular species and you will have ~99.9% of the hummers in CO. As you delve into the ID you'll find that each species, sex and age have different characteristics of plumage, flight pattern, wing sounds and vocalizations. That's where the fun and challenge is. I usually can ID CO hummers to species and sex and sometimes age with my eyes closed as they fly by from their wing sounds and vocalizations alone.
Oh, if you know of any other species in CO, I want to know about it. Part of my work is documenting rare, out of range and out of season species.
Good luck!
I really like the free Merlin Bird ID app. It helps narrow the list in a hurry.
I struggle the most with Calliopes but don't think we get them often. It's easy with the rufous since they're such a-holes.
For us AZ folks. The one the spouse uses, daily.
https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Arizona...s%2C240&sr=8-1
For the CO peeps, one of the many
https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Arizona...s%2C240&sr=8-1
Was today idiot's FULL MOON? I had 2 crazy idiot going near crazy. 2nd one was so crazy that, even my wife asked me if I am carrying.
Thanks[emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
Got the carb and fuel tank on the Gravely cleaned up. After doing a few rudimentary searches I've been able to determine that a lot of these tractors have been converted to electric start. Mine has a starter bolted on with a different belt pulley that has a sproket to hold a chain for the starter to turn. It has a foot switch to start, and a button on the handle that I think might be a kill switch to turn it off. It also has a little generator to charge the battery.
I watched a video and saw a guy with one without all that added stuff, and he starts it by wrapping a cord around the pulley and pull starting it that way. I have an extra pulley, but didn't know what it was for, and it's the factory pulley for starting with a rope.
Anyway, with a charged up car battery, the starter does nothing, even when I jump it with a screw driver. I even fashioned my own pull start and used some starter fluid to see if it would try to kick over. Everything is a flop at the moment, but I've gained more info and have more things to trouble shoot. Namely the starter, starter switch, relay if I can find one, and the plug wire seems faulty.
What I'm getting at is I was thinking about starting a thread about it on here. It's not guns, but I've been having a pretty contentious relationship with this site for a while, and all the best threads seem to be some sort of build/info thread that has nothing to do with politics. Everyone checks them out, everyone is polite, and people get to flex their knowledge muscles.
What do you think? Tractor rebuild thread?
Just send it, Stuving.
High five. You still work with Paul? Never got around to meeting up with you in person.
Why not. It's called GD, for a reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Post it and they will read, your sheet metal thread was good. Besides it's nice to see you youngsters, restoring machinery.
Not anymore, I moved in a slightly different direction as far as wrenching goes. I work field service on heavy equipment for another giant dealership.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Took a drive to Cedaredge to scope out the birds at Fruitgrowers Reservoir. Lots of geese, herons, cormorants, grebes and ducks, several Bald Eagles and about 40 White Pelicans, more pelicans than I've ever seen on the Western Slope. Then a drive over the Grand Mesa. Here's a view of some of the 300+ lakes on the mesa.
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We saw what looked like a flock of white pelicans in the wetlands east of Couer d'Alene, ID this past weekend.
We used to rope or crank start everything before all this fancy recoil starter and electric starter stuff...Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
The first snowmobile we got was a rope start. Single cylinder Kohler engine in a Sno Bunny.
I broke my wrist when a snowmobile engine backfired while pull starting it at a 90* angle. I broke my arm crank starting an old Allis-Chalmers tractor improperly. Always start with the crank up...
Well don't go around kick-starting any motorcycles. You don't need any leg injuries to add to those. [Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
Fake news. Bruh
Wow. I just came from sushi place in Lakewood, and met my friend who I haven't seen since 1996. He was helping out his friends there until they find a chef.
We both do not live (nor lived) in Lakewood, and i happened to meet him there. He looked the very similar since high school. I cant believe he recognized me with all the weight gain and mask.
[flamingo]
Say again?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrPrena
Last weekend, I reached out to an old friend that I raced with in the early 90's. It was a good call and we shared some memories that were pretty cool.
Watched another tarantula tonight..scaling the front door. MF'r ate shit from damn near 7 ft. and hit the ground hard, I thought he was dead. He moved after a few minutes, but sat still for another 15. Then he was back to moving around, but leaking a clear fluid from a few leg joints. Google survey said it's a fluid that heals accidents and is also used during molting.
Giant spiders....something new for me.
You can keep those. None for me, thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by OtterbatHellcat
I've always heard they can die from a fall as short as 6". I watched my wife freak out and slam dunk our daughter's spider into the cage when it jumped up her arm and the spider is fine though.
If you found that spider dead later, I wouldn't be surprised. If it lived some more, I wouldn't be surprised.
The kid at the pet store told us that male tarantulas live about 5 years, and females about 20. Good thing my brother bought my daughter a female...
they're fairly docile as pets. the ones we had would crawl up your arm, to sit on your shoulder. Well they were nice pets, til the cat decided to take them out of the cage and play hockey with them. Once dead their exoskeletons will stay the same, if you spray some clear lacquer on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Want something a little more exciting? get a black (OOPS) UV light and wander the property at night. Scorpions glow in the dark, when you shine them with the light.Quote:
Originally Posted by OtterbatHellcat
I do have a black light flashlight and have wandered around the property at night with it. I don't find 'em outside, the ones I have found were inside. Three so far this year.
Dog ate one of 'em.
Better reaction than that bee, i hope?Quote:
Originally Posted by OtterbatHellcat
You liking AZ OBC?
I'm so glad that's not also true for people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
My ex. I believe she was of alien origination. And not across de border alien.Quote:
Originally Posted by FoxtArt
Like Natasha Henstridge, in Species. Only less leggy, more deadly.
Enjoying Friday evening pizza and watching hummingbirds on the back patio when a cow moose forages through the yard. If they only knew what celebrities they are. Called the neighbors to bolo.
Yeah William, it's a cool vibe here. Less folks and stuff, and GK and I can give each other shit on a frequent basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by William
:)
She batted it to death before she ate it I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo