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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-2-1005896897 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Oh R-I-C-H-A-R-D!! Bright red lipstick? In the woods? i can just see you trying this out yourself! Let me know if it works as well for a male! Lynn On 8-Jul-08, at 1:13 PM, Richard Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I doubt it , although female humans wearing bright red lipstick and > keeping their mouth half open works to attract them (really - I've > seen it). Pishing seems to work for Vireos, Warblers, Chickadees, > Nuthatches, Finches and Sparrows, and seems to work best when there > are young birds around. It doesn't seem to work at all for related > birds in the UK (Don't know why). If you pish loudly at over-flying > passerines, they will sometimes change direction and land nearby. > However, I did once pish at a Gyrfalcon on a lone tree (!) and it > turned its head to see if I was suitable prey. When it realized I > probably wasn't, it proceeded to ignore me. > > Richard > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jeff hiltz <4x4play@gmail.com> wrote: > LOL @ "pish anyone off" > > Is it common for Hummingbirds to come to a "pish"?? > > Jeff > > > > ################## > Richard Stern, > 317 Middle Dyke Rd. > Port Williams, NS, Canada > B0P 1T0 > > rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca > rbstern@xcountry.tv > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### --Apple-Mail-2-1005896897 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Oh R-I-C-H-A-R-D!! =A0 Bright red lipstick? In the woods? =A0i can just = see you trying this out yourself! Let me know if it works as well for a = male!=A0<div><br></div><div>Lynn=A0<br><div><html>On 8-Jul-08, at 1:13 = PM, Richard Stern wrote:</html><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite">Hi,<br><br>I= doubt it , although female humans wearing bright red lipstick and = keeping their mouth half open works to attract them (really - I've seen = it).=A0 Pishing seems to work for Vireos, Warblers, Chickadees, = Nuthatches, Finches and Sparrows, and seems to work best when there are = young birds around. It doesn't seem to work at all for related birds in = the UK (Don't know why). If you pish loudly at over-flying passerines, = they will sometimes change direction and land nearby. However, I did = once pish at a Gyrfalcon on a lone tree (!) and it turned its head to = see if I was suitable prey. When it realized I probably wasn't, it = proceeded to ignore me.<br> <br>Richard<br><br><div = class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jeff hiltz <<a = href=3D"mailto:4x4play@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">4x4play@gmail.com</a>>= wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px = solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: = 1ex;"> <div>LOL @ "pish anyone off"</div> <div>=A0</div> <div>Is it = common for Hummingbirds to come to a "pish"??</div> <div>=A0</div><font = color=3D"#888888"> = <div>Jeff<br><br></div></font><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div= ><br>##################<br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke = Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T0<br><br><a = href=3D"mailto:rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca" = target=3D"_blank">rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca</a><br> <a = href=3D"mailto:rbstern@xcountry.tv" = target=3D"_blank">rbstern@xcountry.tv</a><br><a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com" = target=3D"_blank">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br>###################</block= quote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-2-1005896897--
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