-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 21-Aug-2018 03:59 <=-

 NB>> perhaps they banded together for safety

 MK> Offhand I don't think so but I am not exactly an expert on the
 MK> subject.  From what I've seen over the past 20 years or so the flock
 MK> is anywhere between 15 to 30 birds depending on the season.  As for
 MK> the range it could be bigger than I've noticed but it seems about
 MK> right.  This year has been different as far as how often I've spotted
 MK> them and never did see any chicks this year.  Mind you I don't believe
 MK> I've seen any of the local flock since May.  My neighbour Paul claims
 MK> to have heard them in the brambles by his place but never actually saw
 MK> them. 

In that case, maybe they're just lying low and not exposing themselves
to those scary humans... at least while the population's still high...

 NB>> Do the others accept you as a regular now...?

 MK> The long time residents do.  We call ourselves lifers.  There are
 MK> about a half dozen of us left as a few have died and a few have moved
 MK> on to other pastures, usually due to health reasons some call 'old
 MK> age'.  Although I am not exactly a spring chicken I am hoping to
 MK> squeeze out a few more years and this is as good of a place for
 MK> squeezing out years as any I have run across.  I have run across some
 MK> very beautiful places but the living there would be much more
 MK> demanding than this place is and is very beautiful in the grand scheme
 MK> of all things in the beauty realm. 

Sounds like a good place to stay, then...  

 MK> Also the lifers, and some of the newbies, depend on me for linking
 MK> their so-called smartphones to the vast wasteland of cyberspace.
 MK> Beats me why I am the guru of smartphones given that I have never
 MK> owned one and don't have any plans to ever get one. 

You at least understand the workings well enough (and better than your
neighbors) to link them to cyberspace, that's enough to make you the
guru... Richard doesn't have one either, not even a dumb phone, but he
can make them work, too...

 MK> I think they are overpriced annoying pieces of crap. 
 MK> Silly people.

Mostly agreed.    I do have a very basic cell phone, which I find
convenient, but it's not for anything else other than talk and text.

ttyl         neb

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