Althouse: Birds and bee.

May 1, 2010

Birds and bee.

(Today, in Madison.)

20 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'm impressed how close you could get to wild turkeys. Now if you could only do that next Thanksgiving.; 5/1/10, 10:18 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: Mr. Hannan Jeopardy! fail. Noooooooooes. Say it isn't so.; 5/1/10, 10:36 PM
Ken Pidcock said...: Whoa, the shot of those turkeys is amazing. I'm inclined to accuse you of photographing over bait.; 5/1/10, 10:56 PM
Meade said...: Ha ha, Hanman!

Clouds in my cereal,
Just clouds in my cereal
cause...
You're so mean
You prolly thought this Jeopardy! answer
was about John McEnroe

Dint chew?; 5/1/10, 10:58 PM
Anonymous said...: You think that's close to a wild turkey? Shoot, you guys ain't seen nothing!; 5/1/10, 11:04 PM
Matt Brown said...: How close were you to those turkeys? Whenever I approach turkeys in a nearby state park, they run away. I can only get within 15 yards or so.; 5/1/10, 11:21 PM
MaggotAtBroad&Wall said...: Great pics. Zoom in on the Tom on the left and you see he has a nice beard.; 5/1/10, 11:37 PM
Penny said...: "Ha ha, Hanman!"

Buzzzzzzzzzzzz....Wrong answer!

According to our source, Chip Ahoy, that was the HAM man!

Is it too late to order a ham and cheese on wheat with extra mustard? Hold the McEnroe...on a diet here.; 5/2/10, 12:23 AM
Largo said...: Come back! I want to baste youuu......

:-); 5/2/10, 5:25 AM
Unknown said...: What is it Althouse and Meade are really doing in the woods?; 5/2/10, 5:30 AM
Largo said...: You're so Meade

You do a good with your scansion

Better than me-e-e-e!; 5/2/10, 5:30 AM
Michael Haz said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/2/10, 8:32 AM
Michael Haz said...: I live in a suburban - exurban area in Wisconsin. Our area has a huge turkey population this year, don't know why. They are walking the ditch lines, the shoulders of exurban roads, the parks, the fields and sometimes the unbuilt areas of subdivisions.

I had to stop my car one day in April as a flock of more than fifteen stood in the middle of the road, not moving. They surrounded my car for a few minutes. WTF?

Our coyote population seems to have declined. Perhaps that's why the turkeys have become so bold.; 5/2/10, 8:33 AM
ricpic said...: Where I live wild turkeys are almost as much of a road hazard as deer.; 5/2/10, 8:53 AM
former law student said...: where I live the solitary carpenter bee predominates. Just now I saw a male, resplendent in his golden attire.

Not my pic, but a good one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobozz/3466091368/; 5/2/10, 8:59 PM
MadisonMan said...: There are plenty of deer in the Arboretum. My neighbor cracked his rib by plowing into a deer while he (the neighbor) was biking. Not sure what it did to the deer. Probably not much good.; 5/2/10, 9:11 PM
Largo said...: FLS,

Speaking of bees, the collapse of bee colonies is one of the few things that truly worry me right now.; 5/2/10, 10:32 PM
former law student said...: Honeybees have become so scarce around here I was pleased to see a bee tree in the next neighborhood over. I keep wanting to buy some clover seed, but the big box stores don't carry it where I live.; 5/2/10, 10:52 PM
Largo said...: Was it here at Althouse that someone made mention of the relative intelligence of dogs and clover, and a cat replied, asking which it was that was smarter? Something funny like that. Funnier than how I am presenting it. It was sometime in the past few days somewhere, and I have been trying to track it down.

It's my new favorite insult. "I've seen fields of clover brighter than that guy". I don't know why, but clover just works somehow.

:-); 5/2/10, 11:02 PM
Anonymous said...: Great shot of the turkeys!; 5/3/10, 5:22 AM