---------------------------------------------------------- Zenith-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 07/18/09: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:50 AM - Re: Re: They're back! (Bill Naumuk) 2. 08:20 AM - Re: New local homebuilder (Bill Naumuk) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:50:12 AM PST US From: "Bill Naumuk" Subject: Re: Zenith-List: Re: They're back! Tim- We have great blue herons around here, too. Magnificent birds. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Juhl" Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:52 PM Subject: Zenith-List: Re: They're back! > > I had a strange visit too. Yesterday I opened my hangar / pole barn and > noticed a bad smell. After further examination I found a dead Great Blue > Heron lying under my fuselage. I left one of the doors open for a few > hours while I was away a couple of days ago and assume it crashed in then. > > It had about a 4 foot wingspan and was an impressive sight.... too bad it > ended up this way. > > Tim > > -------- > ______________ > CFII > Champ L16A flying > Zodiac XL - Jabiru 3300A > Working on fuselage > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=253567#253567 > > > ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:20:25 AM PST US From: "Bill Naumuk" Subject: Re: Zenith-List: New local homebuilder Randy- I don't know if sharing pictures of anything that flies in your locale is really off topic, and I assume the "Turkeys at the airport" refers to idiots who step on "Do not step" areas of your project. The quail/Kestrel anecdote is most interesting. A couple of years ago we had a pair of large birds that I had to research to find out they were Merlins. Leave it to Rolls-Royce to name their engines after birds of prey. What I want to see from our Texas listers is a mama armadillo walking across their lawn with their little armored vehicles. Instant Christmas card! Bill do not archive ----- Original Message ----- From: Randy L. Thwing To: zenith-list@matronics.com Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 11:22 PM Subject: Re: Zenith-List: New local homebuilder Do not archive Hey Bill: Isn't it nice to see turkeys somewhere besides the airport? I spent the fourth of July weekend at my Friend Sam Welch's place in Castle Valley, Utah, outside Moab. Castle Valley is named for Castle Rock (see pic) which is a spire where back in the 60's they helocoptered a Chevrolet and model atop it and made a commercial with the MixMaster circling around it filming. Old enough to remember that? Anyway, it's very lush in the Valley floor where Sam's place is. Attached ia a pic of a group of Wild Turkeys that live there. The pic shows five, there were usually six around. We saw them everyday. Also saw Mule deer does with twin fawns and one with triplets! A few weeks ago in my backyard was a family of Gambels' quail. They had 9 chicks. Three days later they were down to 4. I saw a Kestrel grab one of them. Nature can be very tough, but baby Kestrels have to eat too. The attached pic shows the four left, look close and see their "topknots" as already growing. Haven't seen them since. To make this not off topic, I am sending a pic of Sam's metalwork. We bend metal and drill holes. Now here is a metalworker! He is a World Class firearms engraver and has done work for the finest gunmakers in the world. Not many mistakes allowed in this work. Have to be an Artist to boot. Regards, Randy, Las Vegas All- Just shot this lousy picture of the backyard through the screen window in the kitchen. That's a bona fide Pennsylvania wild turkey hen, and the arrows point to some of the poults, who are little brown fluffballs about as big as your fist. do not archive Bill Naumuk Townville, Pa. 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