Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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They are gorgeous, I thought it was a giant purple finch when I first saw them! I have a lot of the evening grossbeaks, but the "RBGB" is rare for me too, I have only seen them about a dozen times in 40 years! I live up near the border in Vermont.The nature pages I follow predicted large flocks from Canada north of here to show up earlier and in larger numbers, due to the wildfires in Quebec, they lost a lot of seed sources. Well, they are all here thinning my purse.
We went from feeding a cat to feeding the birds :) (our cat of 19 years had to be put down two years ago) We had a pair of the RBGBs a couple years ago, saw at least one of their children, but haven't seen any in more than a year. I think they are so classy looking :) We also get those piliated woodpeckers that look like terradactyls :) among several smaller woodpeckers and all those finchy birds. I once saw about a dozen blue jays outside our house!