They are no more than a single bite, although the liver is delicious. Sincr Avian flu created a shortage of frying chickens, there are no more cats in the ’hood. Paul > On Jan 16, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmatyola@gmail.com> wrote: > > After you shoot them, do you eat them or feed them to the cats? <G> > > Yes, the correct name is House Sparrow, but English Sparrow is also used > for the same bird by some folks. > >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 6:05 PM <collinb@brendemuehl.net> wrote: >> >> Comcast wrote: >> >>> I call them House Spartows as does Audubon. I’ve shot hundreds in my >> backyard. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

On 1/16/2023 5:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > After you shoot them, do you eat them or feed them to the cats? <G> > > Yes, the correct name is House Sparrow, but English Sparrow is also used > for the same bird by some folks. > > Mice with wings..... They were a staple of one of our cats diets. Sometimes she would bring us a live one, which caused some consternation if she managed to get it into the house. She wouldn't hunt them after that as they were a gift, I suppose. bill

On 1/16/2023 5:38 PM, Comcast wrote: > They are no more than a single bite, although the liver is delicious. Sincr Avian flu created a shortage of frying chickens, there are no more cats in the ’hood. > > I'm reminded of when I lived in Calgary. The neighborhood was overrun with squirrels. This was when we were taking in boat people by the thousands, and we had a couple of families land on the same block I lived on. Within weeks the squirrel population was no more. bill

I learned the name -English- Sparrow  as a child ..  more recent field guide from National Geo lists the name as a varient  for house... but what I was kidding about  answering Mike's post is the way people these days are more apt to say British or Britain. ann old school On 1/16/2023 6:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > After you shoot them, do you eat them or feed them to the cats? <G> > > Yes, the correct name is House Sparrow, but English Sparrow is also used > for the same bird by some folks. > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 6:05 PM <collinb@brendemuehl.net> wrote: > >> Comcast wrote: >> >>> I call them House Spartows as does Audubon. I’ve shot hundreds in my >> backyard. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- ann sanfedele photography https://annsan.smugmug.com https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks

I’m happy to say there are quite a lot of them here. They have plenty of bushes to hide in. > On 16 Jan 2023, at 06:35, mike wilson <m.9.wilson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > It's a male British House Sparrow, Passer domesticus. Generally regarded as a pest in the USA. Was once one of the most common birds here but it getting to be substantially rarer. Send it back home. > >> On 15/01/2023 17:03 Rick Womer <rickpics14@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Very nice Collin! I’m impressed with the sharpness after the cropping, and the DOF is used very well. >> >> What sort of bird is it? >> >> Rick >> >>>> On Jan 14, 2023, at 3:56 PM, collinb@brendemuehl.net wrote: >>> >>> Wanted to go to my favorite city park to shoot today because, as so rarely happens on a central Ohio winter day, the sun came out. I parked at the first open trail and there was this bunch of fat birds working to survive the winter. This crop is about 1/9 the original. It’s just a square out of the center. >>> >>> http://collinbrendemuehl.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/bird1.jpg >>> >>> I

We had been overrun by squirrels, but then the local fox family had a new litter. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 6:45 PM Bill <anotherdrunkensot@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/16/2023 5:38 PM, Comcast wrote: > > They are no more than a single bite, although the liver is delicious. > Sincr Avian flu created a shortage of frying chickens, there are no more > cats in the ’hood > I'm reminded of when I lived in Calgary. The neighborhood was overrun > with squirrels. > This was when we were taking in boat people by the thousands, and we had > a couple of families land on the same block I lived on. > Within weeks the squirrel population was no more. > >

Bill wrote: > On 1/16/2023 5:38 PM, Comcast wrote: > > > They are no more than a single bite, although the liver is delicious. Sincr Avian flu created a shortage of frying chickens, there are no more cats in the ’hood. > > I'm reminded of when I lived in Calgary. The neighborhood was overrun > with squirrels. > This was when we were taking in boat people by the thousands, and we had > a couple of families land on the same block I lived on. > Within weeks the squirrel population was no more. > > bill In my small home town hunting them was a regular pass time. I would help neighbor kids dress them. And not in a too-too.

I called it British because it is found all over the British Isles, even on some of the more isolated islands. The _really_ isolated places have their own subspecies'. Once one of the top three common birds in towns and suburbia, the population there has crashed for unknown reasons by about 90% in the last 40 years. > On 17/01/2023 00:04 ann sanfedele <annsan@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > > I learned the name -English- Sparrow  as a child ..  more recent field > guide from National Geo lists the name as a varient  for house... > but what I was kidding about  answering Mike's post is the way people > these days are more apt to say British or Britain. > > ann old school > > On 1/16/2023 6:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > After you shoot them, do you eat them or feed them to the cats? <G> > > > > Yes, the correct name is House Sparrow, but English Sparrow is also used > > for the same bird by some folks. > > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 6:05 PM <collinb@brendemuehl.net> wrote: > > > >> Comcast wrote: > >> > >>> I call them House Spartows as does Audubon. I’ve shot hundreds in my > >> backyard. > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

On this side of the pond people are more apt to say someone  is "a Brit'  these days rather than he (or she) is  English  - it's somewhat generational I guess.  Still today if someone enquires about my ethnicity I respond  with "English, German and Scotch-Irish" . But of course now it is considered rude to ask.  I'm privately amused people assume I'm Italian. ann But as to the bird depopulation over your way that is puzzling. On 1/17/2023 5:20 PM, mike wilson wrote: > I called it British because it is found all over the British Isles, even on some of the more isolated islands. The _really_ isolated places have their own subspecies'. > > Once one of the top three common birds in towns and suburbia, the population there has crashed for unknown reasons by about 90% in the last 40 years. > >> On 17/01/2023 00:04 ann sanfedele <annsan@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> >> I learned the name -English- Sparrow  as a child ..  more recent field >> guide from National Geo lists the name as a varient  for house... >> but what I was kidding about  answering Mike's post is the way people >> these days are more apt to say British or Britain. >> >> ann old school >> >> On 1/16/2023 6:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>> After you shoot them, do you eat them or feed them to the cats? <G> >>> >>> Yes, the correct name is House Sparrow, but English Sparrow is also used >>> for the same bird by some folks. >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 6:05 PM <collinb@brendemuehl.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Comcast wrote: >>>> >>>>> I call them House Spartows as does Audubon. I’ve shot hundreds in my >>>> backyard. >>> -- >>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. >> -- >> ann sanfedele photography >> https://annsan.smugmug.com >> https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts >> https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan >> https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- ann sanfedele photography https://annsan.smugmug.com https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks

Don 't feel bad, Ann. You would be surprised to know how many people assume I am Italian -- even Italian-Americans! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 5:47 PM ann sanfedele <annsan@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On this side of the pond people are more apt to say someone is "a > Brit' these days rather than he (or she) is English - it's somewhat > generational > I guess. Still today if someone enquires about my ethnicity I respond > with "English, German and Scotch-Irish" . But of course now it is > considered > rude to ask. I'm privately amused people assume I'm Italian. > > ann >