Change in the feeder line--Mother Nature hard at work
May 4, 2015 0:23:34 GMT -5
Post by hazelrunmama on May 4, 2015 0:23:34 GMT -5
Can't get any pictures till the morning, but we had a line of storms come through tonight that did a bit of damage to the trees along the fence. One of our 80-ft balsams was snapped off about 12 feet up and crashed onto the neighbor's property. (We all must be getting old--the dogs mostly slept through the storm and neither hubby nor I heard the tree go over. LOL In our defense, though, the wind was roaring, so hearing a thud, no matter how massive, would be a little more difficult... 
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At any rate, it's one of our warbler trees, but it's been at death's door for a while now. It was old and not very robust and at least this saves us having to make the decision as to when to take it down. Luckily, it fell away from the house (which is only 45 feet away) and missed the fence (which is only about 10 ft away), and there's nothing but shrubs on the neighbor's property, so it'll just be a straight cleanup. I had pulled all the feeders in a few minutes before the storm hit, so at least I won't have to replace any of them!
I'm hoping to convince hubby to leave the remaining trunk up for the woodpeckers but I don't think he'll go for it--put a chainsaw in his hands and his Inner Lumberjack takes over. Hard to stop a man who's armed with a chainsaw! O.O LOL
Tomorrow I'll post a pic of what it looks like now, but in this February picture, it's the first large tree you can see along the fence beyond the feeders. It fell (as far as we can tell in the dark) angling to the right and toward the road as seen from the perspective of this picture. It'll be interesting to see how the birds react to the changes in the feeder line.
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)At any rate, it's one of our warbler trees, but it's been at death's door for a while now. It was old and not very robust and at least this saves us having to make the decision as to when to take it down. Luckily, it fell away from the house (which is only 45 feet away) and missed the fence (which is only about 10 ft away), and there's nothing but shrubs on the neighbor's property, so it'll just be a straight cleanup. I had pulled all the feeders in a few minutes before the storm hit, so at least I won't have to replace any of them!
I'm hoping to convince hubby to leave the remaining trunk up for the woodpeckers but I don't think he'll go for it--put a chainsaw in his hands and his Inner Lumberjack takes over. Hard to stop a man who's armed with a chainsaw! O.O LOL
Tomorrow I'll post a pic of what it looks like now, but in this February picture, it's the first large tree you can see along the fence beyond the feeders. It fell (as far as we can tell in the dark) angling to the right and toward the road as seen from the perspective of this picture. It'll be interesting to see how the birds react to the changes in the feeder line.
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hubby was out early to take care of the fallen stuff--and he hasn't mentioned wanting to cut down the bole, yet, so maybe I convinced him to leave it!! Or maybe he's just out of shape and is too tired to do it today! LOL
