Well, you learn something new every day. I have those things too, and I always thought they were silverfish. All I really knew is that they are creepy.
Am I a total perv if I admit to thinking that picture was something else (there's the perv part) entirely upon first - quick - glance?
I wonder if the birds risk electrocution by setting up a nest inside a light fixture with exposed wiring. If you smell roasted chicken, you'll know what's up.
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I say if it's a grackle, harass it till it leaves. Grackles are pests. If it's anything else, leave it alone.
One of the cooler, and lesser noticed, things about East End Charleston are the nighthawks.
Yup! Nighthawks. They'll start arriving soon and you can hear 'em cause of this kinda weird short roaring noise in the air with no obvious source. That's a nighthawk pulling up from a dive grabbing all kinds of bugs that love to hang out along the river in summer.
Then there's this cheep. . . cheep . . . cheep as they climb again for another dive. The wing flap motion as they do this is odd, awkward and sometimes stalled. How to generate any lift?
One summer when I lived on Quarrier, a nighthawk lived on top of a telephone pole for months right across from my front porch.
It's really good.
Ian, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, I can assure you that you'll never be seeing a picture of THAT on this blog.
offroute, since I don't know what a grackle is, I just did some Googling. I didn't see the bird for very long, but it was all dark like the photos of the grackles. However, the birds in the photos look much bigger than the one I saw. This bird was on the small side. Could it just be a younger grackle?
I'll have to keep an ear out for the nighthawks when I'm lounging on my front porch in the evening, as I'm wont to do. There are a lot of bats in the neighborhood. I can hear them squeaking. I like that.
My "magazines" of choice for eliminating bugs in our house are as follows:
6. The closest magazine I can grab (especially when the critter's fast)
5. Atlantic Monthly
4. Kanawha Valley ad supplements/Metro News
3. Baby Talk
2. Consumer Reports
1. Parents magazine
I recommend Parents because it uses the heaviest paper and packs the best wallop. We have several extras, and I'll be happy to give them to you or anyone who wants them for bug extermination.
I know nothin' 'bout birds or the wormy things HK mentioned.
Hey, thanks for the link. Yup, that centipede is the critter we saw.
Hippie Killer, I think I've seen a tobacco worm if you're talking about those huge neon green things. They are kind of pretty in a poison arrow frog sort of way.
Huge horny worms? Heh heh. Now I'm feeling like a perv.
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