Search results
-
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
Appreciate the advice here, and the nice comments about our yard, which we love. Here's a shameless picture looking the other direction. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
Yes, birds love both dead ash trees in my yard, so I will be sad to see them go, as will my wallet. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
No, but I know someone who has extensive experience and would help out for beer. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
Maybe this could be a plan, but there's not much of a place to put it to "process" it. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
I'm in the Twin Cities, so that explains part of the high cost. There's no room in my yard to drop it and cut it up, so it's gotta come down piece by piece. Here's one of them. The other is a bit bigger. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
I've gotten three so far and the low bidder has ghosted me. I don't think he wants to do the job. I'm back to square one. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
Yes, I'm in the city where the trees are near two separate fence lines and at the far ends of my lot, so the higher bids involve a large crane being used. These are massive ash trees. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
Yeah, when they're hard to get to and too big to just drop, the price goes way up. -
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) - Treating green ash to keep them alive.
I have two humongous ash trees in my backyard that have to come down. I've gotten estimates so far ranging from $8,000-15,000. There's not much worse than spending money on something like that. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
Those are tricky...could easily be a juvenile bald eagle: https://www.audubon.org/news/is-golden-eagle-actually-bald-eagle#:~:text=Juvenile%20Bald%20Eagles'%20heads%20are,head%20of%20a%20Golden%20Eagle. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
I've seen you on eBird! I saw your recent checklist just today. Greetings fellow bird nerd. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
Yeah, I've only logged 8 warbler species in my yard this year. Last year was well in the teens. -
Useful products thread
This thing is about the best $10 I've spent in awhile. It sticks on my fridge until I need it to break down the millions of boxes we have to recycle. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
Yes, this one was easier with the big bill. Lighting made it tougher to see the vest at first. And, you're right...it perched high in a dead tree and repeatedly circled out and back getting bugs out of the air. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
ID'ing Empids (Flycatchers) is near impossible. I was lucky enough today to get a good look at one that ended up being a lifer for me...Olive-sided flycatcher. Yard bird #79. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
Yeah, nature can be a *****. This weekend I watched a crow steal a Robin's egg from her nest as she helplessly stood by calling out a futile alarm. I watched this guy tear up a vole in my yard once, too. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
Yard bird species #78 showed up tonight...gray-cheeked thrush. Along with a number of rose-breasted grosbeaks, Tennessee warbler, and Swainson's thrushes, and an oriole. Oh, and our resident merlin. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
Very active day here migration-wise. Orange-crowned warbler, blue-headed vireo, yellow warbler, indigo bunting, yellow-rumped warbler, palm warbler, along with the regulars. -
Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
What's not shown is a waterfall and 30 foot stream that circulates back to the pond. The whole setup is a lot of work, but we love it.