My garden which I've designed for bees & butterflies is also relatively and sadly quiet.
Stephanie Greenwood Sent from my iPad > On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Linda Orkin <wingmagi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's a > tragedy. And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to > Agent Orange being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion > plants. I, too, have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was > thinking how just 20 years ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of > year for fear of being stung. Not so now. > > If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world but > all beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate > discussion for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. > > And gas should cost $100 per gallon. > > Linda > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard >> <job121...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between >> Rte. 34 B & Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field >> Rd.. >> >> Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house & one on the >> NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 >> June, Becky & I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the >> trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone >> to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. >> >> In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in & out >> of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have >> noticed a remarkable lack of barn & tree swallows here this summer, compared >> to previous years. >> >> Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" ... & eventually people got her message >> & did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of >> weed-free corn & soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee >> so far, no Monarch butterflies & few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is >> FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. >> >> We still have mosquitoes & black flies, insects that need water in which to >> lay eggs & blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water & blood. >> They thrive. We scratch. >> >> Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are >> fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of >> insecticides, weed killers & fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, >> large & small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that >> determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the >> same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. >> >> I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that >> scientists at MD U & the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate >> pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected >> with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. >> >> I wonder ... WHO CARES??? >> >> Fritzie, in Union Springs .... where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
