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[runawayjim]

jencoleslaw, on Sep 10 2008, 06:09 PM, said:

The digsafe thing is a law, but you are right they probably wouldn't have put a tree well there if that was the gas line, however, I do not know whether or not anyone actually signs off (from Forestry) on the tree well placement if it is now a common enough occurence with the sidewalk people. I fought pretty hard back in the day for sidewalks to either have grass strips or at least tree wells and it was quite a battle. I'm glad that someone seems to be making it happen.

anyway, there are no damn trees in providence because:

• Trees are Dirty and Robbers Hide Behind Them
  
• They Get In the Way of Cars
  
• Dogs Pee on Them
  
• People Pour Used Motor Oil in the Tree Wells
  
• Other*

*pm me for the answer to this one.

you can't be PM'd.

[jencoleslaw]

runawayjim, on Sep 10 2008, 06:21 PM, said:

you can't be PM'd.

I just answered a PM. Maybe your PMer is broked.

[runawayjim]

jencoleslaw, on Sep 10 2008, 06:31 PM, said:

I just answered a PM. Maybe your PMer is broked.

it wouldn't let me PM you... do you ahve me on ignore?

[jencoleslaw]

runawayjim, on Sep 10 2008, 06:44 PM, said:

it wouldn't let me PM you... do you ahve me on ignore?

no. not now, anyway. how strange. let me see what is going on. maybe it is a funny trick jef is playing.

[Cotuit]

Pseudo_Work, on Sep 10 2008, 04:59 PM, said:

and it seems a shame to leave it empty

If it were on Federal Hill I'm sure someone would use it to pee in, or bury a body in. Or more likely, both.

jencoleslaw, on Sep 10 2008, 07:32 PM, said:

maybe it is a funny trick jef is playing.

I would never play a trick, I'm serious like a heart attack.

[Patrick Ward]

I am not sure if this is the right thread but...

Occasionally I stop at the Mobile between Ashburton and Charles Street early in the morning. When I get out and pump the gas I almost always hear these strange and raucous bird calls in the trees across the street. As a life long New Englander I have never heard anything like this before. It sounds like something you would expect to hear in a tropical rain forest. Even today, on this very cold January morning, I heard the calls. So I guess they are not migratory birds.

Anybody know what kind of birds these are?

[runawayjim]

Patrick Ward, on Jan 22 2009, 09:01 AM, said:

I am not sure if this is the right thread but...

Occasionally I stop at the Mobile between Ashburton and Charles Street early in the morning. When I get out and pump the gas I almost always hear these strange and raucous bird calls in the trees across the street. As a life long New Englander I have never heard anything like this before. It sounds like something you would expect to hear in a tropical rain forest. Even today, on this very cold January morning, I heard the calls. So I guess they are not migratory birds.

Anybody know what kind of birds these are?

I think you forgot the picture, but if it's how you describe, could it be monk parakeets?  They've invaded southern CT and caused quite the ruckus (though many like them even though they are an invasive species).

[Patrick Ward]

runawayjim, on Jan 22 2009, 09:07 AM, said:

I think you forgot the picture, but if it's how you describe, could it be monk parakeets? They've invaded southern CT and caused quite the ruckus (though many like them even though they are an invasive species).

I don't have a picture. Too far and too dark. I have heard about large colonies of escaped parakeets in places like Brooklyn but I don't think these are stray pets. They sound bigger that that. It is really very strange.


Didn't some family is RI have to abandon a house because of vultures nesting in the area??

[runawayjim]

Patrick Ward, on Jan 22 2009, 09:36 AM, said:

I don't have a picture. Too far and too dark. I have heard about large colonies of escaped parakeets in places like Brooklyn but I don't think these are stray pets. They sound bigger that that. It is really very strange.


Didn't some family is RI have to abandon a house because of vultures nesting in the area??

Monk parakeets aren't the small birds people have as pets. They're quite a bit larger than those.  They look like small parrots.  The problem that people have with them is they made huge nests that keep growing and growing and they tend to do it on utility poles, stadium lights, etc, causing problems.

[Cotuit]

Patrick Ward, on Jan 22 2009, 09:01 AM, said:

Anybody know what kind of birds these are?

That would be the yellow bellied Drugdealercus Americanis. They hide behind and in trees don't you know?

[brick]

If you haven't confirmed that it is a bird, it may be the racoons.  There is a fairly large population of them living in the little Moshassuck Stream semi-wooded area.

[FjmArch]

runawayjim, on Jan 22 2009, 10:03 AM, said:

Monk parakeets aren't the small birds people have as pets. They're quite a bit larger than those.  They look like small parrots.  The problem that people have with them is they made huge nests that keep growing and growing and they tend to do it on utility poles, stadium lights, etc, causing problems.

There is a colony of Parrots in Warwick that escaped from a long abandoned animal park that was near Rocky Point. I wonder if these are related birds that have relocated to a more urban area?

[runawayjim]

FjmArch, on Jan 22 2009, 07:48 PM, said:

There is a colony of Parrots in Warwick that escaped from a long abandoned animal park that was near Rocky Point. I wonder if these are related birds that have relocated to a more urban area?

It's possible. They're all over a bunch of more urbanized areas, such as Brooklyn, Southern CT (New Haven and Fairfield Counties), and I think even Chicago.

[Frankie811]

Patrick Ward, on Jan 22 2009, 11:01 AM, said:

Anybody know what kind of birds these are?

I'm prettty sure it's recorded sounds your hearing to possibly scare off some type of animal or bird. This sound only plays at night and it's been like this for years. There are foxes all over that area. By the way, the building where the sounds are coming from is the American Mathamatical Society.  http://www.ams.org/