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kzoopair 73M/71F
8614 posts
12/22/2014 7:48 pm
Woodpecker

We saw a pileated woodpecker yesterday! They are native to this area but I haven't seen a lot of them just the same. They grow up to nineteen inches with a thirty inch wingspan, about as big as a good sized crow. The one we saw was maybe twelve or fifteen inches, and he didn't want his picture taken. He kept circling around the tree trunk and I had to do laps in the undergrowth trying to get him. I never did get a good shot of him but I got enough to prove I saw him! There were Elvis sightings around here back in the nineties, and rumors that he was holing up in the tower at the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital but they didn't get pictures. I did.

There's a new weather girl, Ellen Bacca. She says we might get snow for Christmas. I think I'm developing a serious infatuation for her. She's definitely got an Ellen Barkin thing going on. She was raised around here and went to school just up the road from our place. Yummy.











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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/22/2014 8:09 pm

    Quoting mcmaniac:
    I like Ellen Barkin!! Not really a "pecker" guy.
Aw, you'd have liked this guy! He sounded like a construction crew on that dead tree. I've only seen a few of these. The first one was when I was picking a campsite in the UP, at the Straits. He came swooping out of the pines a few feet overhead and I ducked! He was big and surprised hell out of me. Nobody believed me at first, but I did have a witness, the girl I was with.
here's another Ellen for your enjoyment:

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/22/2014 8:33 pm

    Quoting  :

Thanks! She's hard to get a picture of- she never stops moving. It's getting a little easier- she's a year and a half now, but it seems like something on her is in motion all the time.

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Pixie_11 51F
2594 posts
12/22/2014 11:10 pm

The more I see of your home the more sure I am that I could easily like the quieter life ... Beautiful pics as always, KZ !!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/22/2014 11:20 pm

    Quoting Pixie_11:
    The more I see of your home the more sure I am that I could easily like the quieter life ... Beautiful pics as always, KZ !!
We like a drama free lifestyle, for sure. But then, we ARE old. We get excited about woodpeckers. I've spent most of my life outdoors. With a little luck a tree will fall on me before I get termites and have to quit hiking.

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spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
12/23/2014 1:47 am

Woodpeckers are native here too. I've never seen one though I have heard one.
I like watching birds too!


canyaz 56F
17128 posts
12/23/2014 3:40 am

We have those kind of woodpeckers around here too! We had a tree that had died but still stood. It looked like the woodpeckers used it for target practice. From the bottom to top it was swiss cheese. LOL We came home one day to find that 30 foot "stump" laying across the road. LOL
We live in the migration path so I have an opportunity to see all kinds of birds.

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
12/23/2014 4:58 am

Aw, nuts. Was going to say -- based on your initial post -- that I didn't believe your Ellen Bacca sighting without a photo... but of course, once I clicked through, that comment was inoperative...

Speaking of photos, like the new one of you!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 8:45 am

    Quoting AmeliaCox:
    The woodpecker is interesting but I'm loving the pics of Gracie.
Thanks, Mel. I think those are the best she's let me take yet. Usually she can't stop moving.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 8:49 am

    Quoting spunkycumfun:
    Woodpeckers are native here too. I've never seen one though I have heard one.
    I like watching birds too!
We've got lots of woodpeckers but this big one is kind of hard to find. I think my favorite birds are the swallows. They used to follow me when I was mowing, swooping and diving in the wake of the tractor for bugs.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 8:54 am

    Quoting canyaz:
    We have those kind of woodpeckers around here too! We had a tree that had died but still stood. It looked like the woodpeckers used it for target practice. From the bottom to top it was swiss cheese. LOL We came home one day to find that 30 foot "stump" laying across the road. LOL
    We live in the migration path so I have an opportunity to see all kinds of birds.
It's amazing to me the way they can drill wood. Smaller woodpeckers have attacked my house, and they're very persistent. They just won't take no for an answer.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 9:01 am

    Quoting humorlife:
    Aw, nuts. Was going to say -- based on your initial post -- that I didn't believe your Ellen Bacca sighting without a photo... but of course, once I clicked through, that comment was inoperative...

    Speaking of photos, like the new one of you!
I don't think nuts are part of their diet, but I could be mistaken.
I may just post more Ellen Bacca photos and turn this blog into a little shrine to her. When she pours herself into a dress and and then poses, pivots and pirouettes before that weather map it stirs something deep in my soul. She is very young. Sigh.
Thanks on the photo. I don't think I'm very photogenic but I didn't mind that one too much.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 9:05 am

    Quoting rockkickass69v2:
    Oh yeah!
    I've got it bad for Amy Freeze on WABC 7 in N.Y..
    Love to put just half of my cock into her.
    The back half that is. LOL!
    Merry Christmas Kzoo!
I heartily concur on Amy Freeze- I just googled her. (That sounds like I goosed her with my nose or something, right?) I wonder if she likes DP?

Merry Christmas to you too, Rock!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 9:10 am

    Quoting  :

Gracie loves people and she gets so excited about meeting other dogs. She knows she's supposed to wait for permission but she just can't help herself. It's the same thing with water. She goes nutso when she smells it, and she doesn't care if it's cold, either. I'm gonna try to get video of her splashing and running in the creek. It's pure pleasure watching her. She has a look of unadulterated joy and abandon on her face!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 9:21 am

    Quoting AmeliaCox:
    I'm also adoring the new, cuddlier main pic of you. xo
Cuddlier? Is that Aussie for chewable?

Thank you Dear Mel! I love posting pics of PD- I just love her and want to share them. Me....not so much. I don't think the camera likes me.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 9:24 am

    Quoting humorlife:
    Aw, nuts. Was going to say -- based on your initial post -- that I didn't believe your Ellen Bacca sighting without a photo... but of course, once I clicked through, that comment was inoperative...

    Speaking of photos, like the new one of you!
And someone at this site keeps eating my posted photo of Ellen. Can't say that I blame them- eating comes straight to my mind as well. But if they'd just ask me I'd GIVE them a copy for free.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 10:41 am

    Quoting AmeliaCox:
    No dear B... Cuddlier means more tempting to cuddle (hug). I like you, who cares what the camera likes.
Well, I care! I want to feel pretty
Oh so pretty and witty and gay!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 11:18 am

    Quoting AmeliaCox:
    I will be so pleased if I never see you in that sort of getup... Would some cuddles help you to feel pretty and witty and gay?
God, I think that picture is the Mother Lode of funny! I might just change my profile pic again if I can find a giraffe mask! I might even make a music video.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 4:31 pm

Isn't she adorable? I just wanna pull her onto my lap and hug her! And pet her. And maybe just a little taste...I promise I won't do anything else....

The weather here is very strange. Today was fifty degrees! In December!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 5:10 pm

I wish she were mine but my wife won't let me have her. She already told me not to try that "But she followed me home!" shit. And these aren't even the best pics of her. Most of her dresses are painted on! The weather's always hot when she's reporting it!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/23/2014 6:44 pm

    Quoting  :

Before I retired, I paid very close attention to the weather report- I drove a semi. I still pay attention, but now I can concentrate on the important data! There are a number of attractive weather reporters locally, but Ellen is new, and you know how that works....I have no idea what she has said ten seconds after she has said it.

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TicklePlease 56F  
13851 posts
12/24/2014 8:07 am

Nice! I've never seen one before, thanks for sharing the pic! While out in Colorado I saw some magpies, a bird new to me. Do you have them in MI? Beautiful birds!


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/24/2014 4:05 pm

I don't think there are magpies here. I'm not a birder though. I just like wildlife in general. My folks told me today that they have a bald eagle perching near their place, just a few miles south of here.

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smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
12/24/2014 8:27 pm

Congrats on your pileated sighting!! There were a few in my neighborhood when I first moved here, but I haven't seen any for years and years. Loss of habitat I suppose - kind of sad.


kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
12/24/2014 8:46 pm

    Quoting smartasswoman:
    Congrats on your pileated sighting!! There were a few in my neighborhood when I first moved here, but I haven't seen any for years and years. Loss of habitat I suppose - kind of sad.
Thanks! It's depressing to think about how many animals will disappear. I want the wooly mammoth, the megaloceros and the aurochs back! Instead we're gonna end up with mutant radioactive sabre toothed squirrels.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
1/1/2015 4:31 pm

    Quoting  :

I CAN tell! i like them too, but I can't identify them like you can. Maybe I'll start feeding them this winter.

As you say, that pileated woodpecker was battering like an air hammer on that dead tree. I would have walked right by if he hadn't.

I caught a squirrel raiding our feeder one day. Every time he jumped on the feeder my wife would go out to chase him away and he got used to the sound of the screen door and would run off and then come back. So I sneaked out real quiet, barefoot and in my boxers. He was on the opposite side of the full feeder and couldn't see me. Only his tail was flicking out past the feeder, and I reached out and grabbed him by that tail. He was quite discombobulated and hit the ground in a crouch looking every which way. When he spotted my he skedaddled up a tree...and didn't come back.

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