Winter Solstice, Upcoming
In just a few days, the major Druid holiday, Winter Solstice (WS), shall be upon us. With that fact in mind, Crumby decided to pen an essay: What Winter Solstice Means to Me?
What Winter Solstice (WS) Means to Me? By C. Ovate
But then Crumby decided that vitamin D shortages, bestiality, cannibalism and incest are not fit topics this time around. Maybe later. Yet Crumby does feel obliged to provide some free holiday advice. Milk is a good source of Vitamin D. So plan ahead for winter. Make sure your milk cow or goat can provide you with plenty of milk and Vitamin D. And remember, you won’t get any milk if you have already et your cow or goat.
So instead of dwelling on the potential vitamin D shortage, the CB Druids may celebrate the upcoming WS by holding a WS bird count at the CB. This would be our first ever, official, WS Bird Count. And actually, we have already started the festivities. Yesterday, we practiced counting house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
The house, or English sparrows, as many prefer to call them, spend most of their alloted time sitting amid or on the mess of grape vines that demarcates the garden from the east pasture. Yet at intervals they yen for a black oil sun flower seed or two. Then, driven by hunger, they bum rush the feeders. Apparently, bum rushing the feeders may be an anti-predation strategy. But who actually knows?
Interestingly, the feeders were up for a couple of months before the house sparrows snapped to the fact that the feeders contained something good to eat. Which is odd, considering the house finches were front and center almost the first day, and the house sparrows sat a few feet away, watching the house finches eat sunflower seeds. Goofy!
Anyway, it’s very hard to actually count the house sparrows. That’s because, when most of them are actually visible, sitting on the outer branches of the grape vine tangle, they are also bum rushing the feeders at seemingly random intervals. Nevertheless, after much effort, we decided there were about 42 house sparrows present on yesterday’s practice house sparrow count.
Today, we are fixing to practice counting white-winged doves, the other mass quantity avian species at the CB. Then, once we get proficient with them, we shall be ready for the WS count this upcoming Thursday. Praise the WG with great praise!
What Winter Solstice (WS) Means to Me? By C. Ovate
But then Crumby decided that vitamin D shortages, bestiality, cannibalism and incest are not fit topics this time around. Maybe later. Yet Crumby does feel obliged to provide some free holiday advice. Milk is a good source of Vitamin D. So plan ahead for winter. Make sure your milk cow or goat can provide you with plenty of milk and Vitamin D. And remember, you won’t get any milk if you have already et your cow or goat.
So instead of dwelling on the potential vitamin D shortage, the CB Druids may celebrate the upcoming WS by holding a WS bird count at the CB. This would be our first ever, official, WS Bird Count. And actually, we have already started the festivities. Yesterday, we practiced counting house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
The house, or English sparrows, as many prefer to call them, spend most of their alloted time sitting amid or on the mess of grape vines that demarcates the garden from the east pasture. Yet at intervals they yen for a black oil sun flower seed or two. Then, driven by hunger, they bum rush the feeders. Apparently, bum rushing the feeders may be an anti-predation strategy. But who actually knows?
Interestingly, the feeders were up for a couple of months before the house sparrows snapped to the fact that the feeders contained something good to eat. Which is odd, considering the house finches were front and center almost the first day, and the house sparrows sat a few feet away, watching the house finches eat sunflower seeds. Goofy!
Anyway, it’s very hard to actually count the house sparrows. That’s because, when most of them are actually visible, sitting on the outer branches of the grape vine tangle, they are also bum rushing the feeders at seemingly random intervals. Nevertheless, after much effort, we decided there were about 42 house sparrows present on yesterday’s practice house sparrow count.
Today, we are fixing to practice counting white-winged doves, the other mass quantity avian species at the CB. Then, once we get proficient with them, we shall be ready for the WS count this upcoming Thursday. Praise the WG with great praise!
posted by ray pistrum at Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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