Erasmus, FCD
Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007
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coon in my attic last night. i am going to close up the soffets this weekend. he could have easily dropped down through an unfinished section of drywall in the closet and into my little boy's room. i peppered him with a bb gun by headlamp but that only drove him further into the house. guess it works better on the cats.
While on the roof the other day I saw a pair of pileated woodpeckers, a downy or a northern (didn't get a good look), cedar waxwings, starling, peewees, cardinal, blue jay, robins, a smaller Buteo hawk on the wing and my favorite, yellow shafted flicker. i know some cherokees that'll give you $15 for such a bird. FtK if you are reading this perhaps you will direct your children to shoot these birds instead of big cranky.
i had a nice collection of flicker feathers (we call them yaller hammers) but the dermestids got into my fly tying box and ruined every damn thing, including the quills of the yaller hammer feathers. i had had them for almost 20 years, at mom and dad's the cats would get them occasionally and I could just pick them up. they make an absolutely FANTASTIC wet fly mimic of Perlid/Perlodid stonefly nymphs. dyed dove feathers are not the same thing.
not sure if i want to start plinking away at the local avifauna with a BB gun just to restock. anyone finds a dead yaller hammer PM me.
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