tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post3600675637854734831..comments2023-11-05T03:56:08.325-08:00Comments on Murrmurrs: A Murder MysteryMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-28034994769851247182015-04-04T05:05:47.097-07:002015-04-04T05:05:47.097-07:00Fortunately, I always keep mah feathers numbered.....Fortunately, I always keep mah feathers numbered...for just such an emergency.unmitigated mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13901264130484454602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-36694332552140159162015-03-30T12:16:25.538-07:002015-03-30T12:16:25.538-07:00Well...walnuts have meat.Well...walnuts have meat.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-26407230113093110692015-03-30T12:00:10.737-07:002015-03-30T12:00:10.737-07:00They like meat, Murr. My mom used to debone steak...They like meat, Murr. My mom used to debone steaks before cooking them. I put the bones out for the crows. They would fly in, take them and fly over to a sheltered spot behind a neighbor's pool and pick the meat off there. The neighbor finally asked me why she had a huge pile of bones in her yard... I didn't actually make friends with the crows from this, but they obviously had a Bruce Mohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00170656188990284530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-46933209460408627322015-03-30T08:57:57.190-07:002015-03-30T08:57:57.190-07:00I've been trying to make friends with a trio o...I've been trying to make friends with a trio of crows in the yard next door, and all I've gotten them to do is fly out of the tree and land on the wires when I come outside and yell HEY WALNUT BOYS!Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-56787011262383786382015-03-30T06:56:33.473-07:002015-03-30T06:56:33.473-07:00Both owls and large hawks will take a raven. I liv...Both owls and large hawks will take a raven. I live trapped a raven once when I was an instructor in a Navy survival school. Before the end of the day he would land on my arm to be fed. He crapped in the barracks and started stealing things from lockers and when he settled into the salad bar I knew he would have to go. I let him outside and he hung around for about three days trying to get Ol'Buzzardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075162476463971258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-28765915713182868252015-03-29T15:37:31.959-07:002015-03-29T15:37:31.959-07:00We don't need those amateurs with this crew cr...We don't need those amateurs with this crew cracking'.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-78329075852822009282015-03-29T15:36:47.864-07:002015-03-29T15:36:47.864-07:00Hey, now that you mention it, this might be anothe...Hey, now that you mention it, this might be another clue for the clever. Blue sky above. It's in the woods but this patch was a little clearing. No nests above.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-4439088770825993592015-03-29T14:27:16.437-07:002015-03-29T14:27:16.437-07:00I understand that Mister's Holmes & Watson...I understand that Mister's Holmes & Watson are soon to arrive. Bob from Athenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14124078025732286371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-43036504612633198282015-03-29T10:15:32.347-07:002015-03-29T10:15:32.347-07:00I want to be all duck too! We have some bald eagle...I want to be all duck too! We have some bald eagles here and there. Not as bald as the victim.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-7017866017672802712015-03-29T10:00:41.765-07:002015-03-29T10:00:41.765-07:00Me too. Nobody seems to think this is a raven thou...Me too. Nobody seems to think this is a raven though.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-20648948100433057002015-03-29T06:33:30.795-07:002015-03-29T06:33:30.795-07:00So I'm reconsidering, and discarding band-tail...So I'm reconsidering, and discarding band-tailed pigeon as a possibility. Now I'm all duck. I think it's something like a female goldeneye. There are too many white body feathers, and if you notice the strong curl of them, that's a real duck trademark. That fits with the lanceolate primaries, the very long feather shafts, and the lack of obvious tail feathers (duck tail feathers Julie Zickefoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-41000906773018409572015-03-29T02:04:52.759-07:002015-03-29T02:04:52.759-07:00May have been a sea eagle. they're black and w...May have been a sea eagle. they're black and white. Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-89365756053052820312015-03-29T02:00:40.394-07:002015-03-29T02:00:40.394-07:00That mess of feathers looks like Mr Raven had an u...That mess of feathers looks like Mr Raven had an unfortunate encounter with the tail rotor of a helicopter. Of course if that really happened, the feathers would be spread over a much wider area. Probably he just died of natural causes and got ripped apart by a scavenger. Sad, because I like ravens. Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-40437019668903982272015-03-28T23:05:45.135-07:002015-03-28T23:05:45.135-07:00It's a fack. Them gulls get around.It's a fack. Them gulls get around.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-21247991090555473412015-03-28T23:05:04.821-07:002015-03-28T23:05:04.821-07:00Yeah, I vote for her before she even checks in. Ju...Yeah, I vote for her before she even checks in. Just prophylactically.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-66712920102954454422015-03-28T23:04:02.642-07:002015-03-28T23:04:02.642-07:00I will happily give you a major data dump of photo...I will happily give you a major data dump of photos from the site Ms JZ: seems to me the big feathers weren't plucked out, but were sort of sawed off. Sheared. If they were pulled out, would they not be pointy at the ends? Like a pen-quill? But I'm not good at this, and it was weeks ago. We've got Coopies for sure, and maybe peregrines there, and Sharpies and Red-tails. The longest Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-70406262897570746202015-03-28T22:53:40.991-07:002015-03-28T22:53:40.991-07:00Yeah, whoever eats those bits just has to urp them...Yeah, whoever eats those bits just has to urp them up afterwards. Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-76238102996936940432015-03-28T22:52:30.471-07:002015-03-28T22:52:30.471-07:00One of our neighbors has a roof full of gulls. I d...One of our neighbors has a roof full of gulls. I don't know what her roof has that the rest of ours don't.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-30149384975812397492015-03-28T20:59:09.254-07:002015-03-28T20:59:09.254-07:00I meant SEA gulls. Never seen a seal gull.I meant SEA gulls. Never seen a seal gull.Rose Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07180873324576064516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-45825419397885471062015-03-28T20:58:22.916-07:002015-03-28T20:58:22.916-07:00I see sea gulls here at the parking lots of the st...I see sea gulls here at the parking lots of the stores here in Oregon City. So guess you do not have to be by the sea shore to see seal gulls.Rose Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07180873324576064516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-13145941851021183822015-03-28T20:09:03.066-07:002015-03-28T20:09:03.066-07:00Murr! We have seagulls regularly hoovering up the...Murr! We have seagulls regularly hoovering up the parking lots here in Spokane, and we're a LOT farther from the ocean than you are!Judith Janeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05145647551537240053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-1802382241325259502015-03-28T18:39:06.751-07:002015-03-28T18:39:06.751-07:00Hurray for Julie...she makes sense and gets my vot...Hurray for Julie...she makes sense and gets my vote.Candacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975327259696668235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-82279799674830394942015-03-28T18:30:23.925-07:002015-03-28T18:30:23.925-07:00Uhm uhm uhmmity uhm. I haven't read the commen...Uhm uhm uhmmity uhm. I haven't read the comments yet because I want to come to this discussion unsullied. Well, I mean not prejudiced. You knew I'd be here as soon as I got the email notification that you've posted, which comes in after everybody and his brother has weighed in. And I know that I'm prolly one of the friends you referred to who would bring a whole satchel of sumthinJulie Zickefoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-68940403287180215012015-03-28T15:54:04.867-07:002015-03-28T15:54:04.867-07:00The white feathers really make me think not raven ...The white feathers really make me think not raven or crow (they aren't the same bird)...were they mixed together, or could they have been from two different, um, corpses? And did you look UP? Could there have been an owl's nest above the spot where the feathers were? We had an owl nesting in our smallish patch of woods one year, and there were always feathers and...y'know, stuff...Linda Koonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05614162024708881395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-29129904752094880472015-03-28T14:08:37.983-07:002015-03-28T14:08:37.983-07:00I, too, don't find that terribly depressing. ...I, too, don't find that terribly depressing. As a bird lover, I have found the remnants of many a feral cat (or house cat with too much time on its hands... I mean, paws) in my yard. It seems like poetic justice to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com