Polly
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: Crazy kildeer |
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I should have known we would be getting more snow. A kildeer is scouting out our driveway to make her nest. One does this every year. Only once have the eggs survived to hatch and it was fund to watch the little ones runing around. Two years ago just after the eggs were laid, we got a foot of heavy wet snow in April and the mama abandoned the nest. Last year, I think racoons got the eggs. I hope this year we have better luck.
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stratsmom
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Polly I sure hope it works out this year. They are cute little buggers, kinda noisy, but cute! 
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I do hope the little ones hatch out and make it.
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Thanks GF I was wondering too what a Kildeer was. I hope all the eggs hatch and that the young survive.
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Kildeer slideshow time... 
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zuzu's petals
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Beautiful birds. 
WOW!  Talk about making a nest in a harsh environment!
I hope you get to see the hatchlings this year.
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katsback
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Pretty cool looking bird! nice slide show,thanks.
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Gizmo
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Thanks Frank for the slide show. What pretty birds and the eggs are so large compared to the birds size. I wonder why they lay there eggs on the ground. They do fly. Oh well I do hope they make it this year Polly.
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Polly
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Right now it appears as though she has left without laying any eggs. Hope she comes back. They are interesting to watch.
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mjhand55
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:33 am Post subject: RE: Crazy Kildeer |
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I just moved to the "country" 2 years ago. I had never seen or heard of a Kildeer. Well, just a few weeks ago, a kildeer built her nest in our Rock flower bed. I come home from work each day and she's still sitting on her nest. I've been trying to keep an eye out for her when I'm home. I hope her babies hatch soon so I can relax some. They are so cute. We had some last summer in our neighbors yard. They are interesting birds.
Anyone know about barn swallows? We had some build a next right above my front door. They are making a mess and I read they come back for years once they build that first nest. I hope not, I like birds but the bird poop at my front door and mud splattered on the front door is a little much.
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teddybear
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Yes! Barn swallows keep coming back again and again. If you can move whatever they are using to prop their nest on (plant hanger, ect.)that can help or give them a place to build. It sounds bad but around here if you can knock down the nest, BEFORE the eggs, and keep knocking it down they will give up and go somewhere else. But you have to be quick or you will have a nest w/ eggs before you can run for milk.
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