The ones that do this the most around here are teeny tiny, and almost black.
They suddenly startle, or maybe get a command from the head bird honcho, and all seem to take flight at once, swooping and tumbling in big clouds of little black specks. Hundreds? Thousands? I don’t know.
But that’s why I call them pepper birds.
Not scattered or random, though. They look choreographed in swirling patterns…
Sometimes they settle back down again in pretty much the same spot, sometimes fly away in a milling rain cloud.
Often they sit on wires like this… But for some reason they also like to roost on top of a supermarket I go to…
Outlining the edges of the roof and. accenting the details of its fake Spanish architecture in a little black dotted line.
Those particular blackbirds in your link are shiny, and very dark black, also larger than my “pepper birds”, which I described as tiny and almost black.
IIRC they have lighter breasts, as well.
They’re actually not as tiny as, say, the teeniest sparrows, but smaller than blackbirds, which are almost robin size.
I’m sure somebody around here knows what they are., but I haven’t done much to find out.
No police officer should be able to follow at those speeds. That is what radios and helicopters are for.
Stupid S#!& might have slowed down if he ant being chased,
We like to feel superior to those who’ve been fooled, and too often that attitude shows. The first step to convincing someone is being sympathetic and sincere. The moment you call me an idiot is the moment I stop listening to you.
Isn’t that what “New Nederland” means, on the map?
I thought the colony was bigger than that orange strip, but I’m not all that up on that stuff.
But I do know New York City was part of it.
AFAIK the orange part of that island is roughly Brooklyn and Queens, now… though Manhattan must be there someplace … and the white half is Long Island.
I cannot find the individual names (or don’t recognize them on the map), but six years later, this is a map of the Dutch claims in North America.
Note that it seems to be an expansion of the map posted by nighthawks.
I just enlarged it. The bottom ship goes to “Nye Sverige”. So I guess there briefly was a New Sweden. Also, enlarged, you can read the local native tribe names.
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Didn’t I just see him yesterday, hanging out with some loaves of bread?
Comfy?
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♫♪”Like a bird on a wire…’♫♪
The ones that do this the most around here are teeny tiny, and almost black.
They suddenly startle, or maybe get a command from the head bird honcho, and all seem to take flight at once, swooping and tumbling in big clouds of little black specks. Hundreds? Thousands? I don’t know.
But that’s why I call them pepper birds.
Not scattered or random, though. They look choreographed in swirling patterns…
Sometimes they settle back down again in pretty much the same spot, sometimes fly away in a milling rain cloud.
Often they sit on wires like this… But for some reason they also like to roost on top of a supermarket I go to…
Outlining the edges of the roof and. accenting the details of its fake Spanish architecture in a little black dotted line.
Do they look like THIS?
Um… Thanks, but no, not as far as I can tell.
Those particular blackbirds in your link are shiny, and very dark black, also larger than my “pepper birds”, which I described as tiny and almost black.
IIRC they have lighter breasts, as well.
They’re actually not as tiny as, say, the teeniest sparrows, but smaller than blackbirds, which are almost robin size.
I’m sure somebody around here knows what they are., but I haven’t done much to find out.
I should!
The behavior reminds me of starlings. Is it like this:
My thought too. They vary from dingy grey to metallic green/black depending on sex and breeding condition.
Like this?
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I’ll leave you to figure out THE EXACT YEAR AND MODEL.
No police officer should be able to follow at those speeds. That is what radios and helicopters are for.
Stupid S#!& might have slowed down if he ant being chased,
Ooooh, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Oh yeah cos lane splitting is perfectly safe.
In his front yard he has a sign “Look Twice Save a Life – Watch for motorcycles”. Because it’s too much trouble for him to obey the laws.
Or the lawn.
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Wow! Just jumped out at me!
Same here.
Yup.
Lions do that (even lion fish).
Why is he lyin’? What did he tell those zebras?
Zeeba, zeeba!
… HERE.
The Michael J. Fox impersonator!
Chuck does a good job….too…. 😄
Too true. Sadly.
We like to feel superior to those who’ve been fooled, and too often that attitude shows. The first step to convincing someone is being sympathetic and sincere. The moment you call me an idiot is the moment I stop listening to you.
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Isn’t the orange bit New Holland?
Isn’t that what “New Nederland” means, on the map?
I thought the colony was bigger than that orange strip, but I’m not all that up on that stuff.
But I do know New York City was part of it.
AFAIK the orange part of that island is roughly Brooklyn and Queens, now… though Manhattan must be there someplace … and the white half is Long Island.
Oops, Missed the New Nederland label! Too busy trying to Identify the islands.
I cannot find the individual names (or don’t recognize them on the map), but six years later, this is a map of the Dutch claims in North America.
Note that it seems to be an expansion of the map posted by nighthawks.
Interesting old spellings! “Niew Sorck?” (Quebec was a bit off, too!)
Is that bottom ship Swedish? It doesn’t look like any of the colonial powers I remember reading about.
I just enlarged it. The bottom ship goes to “Nye Sverige”. So I guess there briefly was a New Sweden. Also, enlarged, you can read the local native tribe names.
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Wow, that’s an elderly gentleman. Or gentlewoman.
Is s/he one of yours, Nighthawks?
no
Not at that time of nights anyways.
Someone understands the gravity of the situation…
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
Another bit from today’s London “Daily Mail.”
Isn’t history fun?