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

[Jay Weigel]

There is a holly tree across the street from the house I own in Tennessee,
where my daughter and her family currently live. It has always been the
province of mockingbirds, which are fierce and vicious birds and would
attack my cats in their own yard.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The things you hear in this Pub! :-D
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
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> 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.
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2017, at 5:25 PM, "Charles Wohlers" <
>>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 10:16 AM
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>>> Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David S.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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