[Magdalen] The Grackles are back, the Grackles are back...

[Marion Thompson]

The things you hear in this Pub! :-D

Marion, a pilgrim


On 2/26/2017 8:04 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> They grow wild here, too. And they get to be HUGE! Funny story about mine--which fall into that category: I was underneath one of them, looking up, when I noticed something strange Waaaaayy up in the top. I got the binoculars and discovered it was a white toilet seat!!  It was around the main upright branch, so it obviously was put there when the tree was small. I don't know if it was part of some kind of tether arrangement when the tree was planted, but it should make for some interesting conversation if/when the tree ever comes down! I'm guessing it's probably been there for at least 50 years.
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>> On Feb 26, 2017, at 5:25 PM, "Charles Wohlers" <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Holly trees grow wild in SE Mass., so I would think they'd grow where you are.
>>
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
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>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] The Grackles are back, the Grackles are back...
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>> In a message dated 2/26/2017 9:21:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
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>> There's  a single Great Blue Heron that lives on the pond next door. A few
>> weeks ago he  landed in one of my holly trees! By the time I got my camera,
>> he was  gone.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>
>> Though some of the Asian hollies do well here in NE Pennsylvania,
>> the American Holly trees only survive in the sheltered valleys.   There
>> are some beauties of the latter in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton down
>> in the Susquehanna Valley.  I suppose now that it is generally
>> warmer, it would be worth a try.  English Holly is simply too  tender
>> for our climate.
>>
>> Great Blue Herons were common summer visitors to our lake in
>> the Upper Midwest, and the early riser, probably awakened by the
>> resident House Wrens, was often rewarded by seeing the herons
>> fishing just offshore in front of the cabin.
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>> David S.
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