Bill Gates Says Planting Trees "Idiotic"...
(finance.yahoo.com)
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My trees have the birds within their branches, whose songs i enjoy...got some of them Mississippi Kites around, and they are like watching an airshow...
I moved into a new place and my dog has picked this very large shrub or small tree as his favorite afternoon napping spot. The cats, rats, squirrels, chipmunks and everything else has decided that they don't want to mess with a hundred pound mutt slumbering (for some odd reason). Couple of birds eventually figured out that he's just a giant baby that looks ferocious, now there's 50-100 of them in this shrub regularly. My dumb dog has groupies that think he's their savior and he doesn't even realize it.
My pooch has accidentally created bird Sturgis, it's seriously like a bird biker bar to watch as they flirt and fight getting rowdy and obnoxious so bad sometimes that I have to throw something at the bush to quiet them down if I'm on the phone. This is beyond old lady style bird watching it's like an avian Jerry Springer episode in my backyard while I have my morning coffee.
We had several trees in the neighborhood get cut down, amd my bushes in the backyard must be Daytona to your Sturgis...they get rowdy as soon as the sun starts peeking...
I'm an okay steward of the land, I give portions of it as habitat for the critters and let them duke it out. I crammed a baby Garter snake into a Chipotle cup a decade ago and took it home to live in our yard free of mowers and pesticides... last spring I watched one of it's offspring fall off the rock it was sun bathing on! He hits the ground waking up ready for a fight realizing that he's stupid and fell asleep in a precarious position. I've always found more beauty, entertainment and reward from my yard than most people ever receive from society.
The birds are jerks, the snake is retarded, the dog is lazy but I prefer their company over most people. Let's plant another tree or shrub for these assholes, I'm gonna have to figure out if they're Banditos, Hells Angels or what... I'm not sure what my bird's club approves of for foliage but I really don't want a hundred of those angry little fuckers turning on me.
If they go on a bombing run, it's over...
Glad to hear that,fren. Enjoying those birds is good for your soul.