African Carbines

[DaveHH]

My Dafodills have also popped up. Amazing flowers that women like as much as roses. I've never planted any, they are all just volunteers. The Robins are back too. They used to come every year and eat the Pyracantha and if the berries had been on the plant for a long time, the Robins would get all screwed up like they were drunk. After the war I lived in the back house of a rich Italian man. His wife needed birds to put into her raviolis along with brains and all manner of stuff. I'd plug a half dozen fat Robins with the pellet rifle and she was a happy lady. I had a Sharpshrike that came to my persimmon tree every year and met his wife. They'd nest and have the kids and split. Same bird same tree for about 3 years then never again. That male fought battles with anything that came near the tree. My Persimmon tree normally has maybe 50 nice pieces of fruit. I always left them for the birds. They'd clean them out by March. This year I had one persimmon. We have had the first normal winter rain in about 4 years and the citizens are just going nuts. There are 90% of these Bozos that think that if they drive a Prius and stop mowing the lawn with a gas mower that they will save the planet. I am not joking. It is Egos and Virtue signaling.