-=> 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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