Comments on: Where’s Willow?

By: Mary DeV

Mary DeV — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:19:39 +0000

Thinking back, I believe I surmised that the “Partridge-Man” was the male partridge! I knew that other birds had male & female names (rooster & hen, Tom turkey, peacock & peahen, etc.) So I figured the partridge (in the pear tree) was the female & the male was a partridge-man.

By: Mary DeV

Mary DeV — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:27:32 +0000

Cool, I missed the third ptarmigan (upper right in the photo) — guess I should have followed the tracks!

I remember when I first ran across the name “ptarmigan” as a child, and didn’t know how to pronounce it. Somehow I mixed it up with the Partridge in the Pear Tree, and to this day I want to call that bird a “Partridge-Man!”

Funny the stuff you remember like that. When I was little, I’d hear the song “Up on the Housetop” — and I didn’t get it. “Up on the housetop, reindeer pause….” I finally exclaimed to my mom, “But reindeer don’t have PAWS — reindeer have HOOVES!” I still imagine “reindeer paws” when I hear it

By: faith cornell

faith cornell — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:06:18 +0000

I think they are moving in closer to people because they are losing their natural habitats and they are more used to people now and that is where the food is. It is the way the world is now I fear, everybody losing their rightful space and we just have to go along to get along like them. We just have to be a little more careful about who is wild and well and wild and ill. It is sort of sad but we just keep building and drilling and putting more roads in etc.
Happy New YEar!!!!

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:38:14 +0000

Speaking of predators, there seems to be a growing number of hawks and foxes these days. In fact this morning, I was shocked to see a fox in the woods behind our house. Maybe that is the reason I haven’t seen as many squirrels around. Has anybody else noticed that there seems to be more predators around?