Samrc

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Nope not only in Key West. When I lived in an apartment at the north end of town years ago for a couple months straight I awakened to the drumming of the dumbest woodpecker on earth. He was trying desperately to create a hole in my gutter drain pipe just outside of my bedroom window! It was painted to look like wood to blend in. Talk about racket! And Florida mocking birds are the dumbest. They attack windows that reflect. Especially if they have film on them, smashing head long into windows time and time and time again, for about five months of the year. In the process, paint from the window frame and jam is damaged and eventually there's a chance that the bird will be injured or glass broken. After many tries to deter him from trying to kill his competition, I came up with a stringing an "X" made of clear nylon thread between wrought iron posts on my front porch. The clear thread causes a glint in the sun distracting him and making him turn away. Every spring I have to re-string the thread. Cheap safe solution to a major headache.

NO SIGN FOR GULLS. I want the pretty birds...cardinals, blue jays, doves and even red-headed woodpeckers that visit my oak tree (20 ft away from the bath) to visit the bath, not invite more huge (unattractive) birds like sea gulls, pigeons and grackles, and crows!

The settings that work best for me: In the box for allowed urls: list your own website, http://..... and http://www..... any forums (like TCH) that you want to be able to pull in images and any sites you have allowed to link to your images directly (if there are any). Then define the images, etc that you are giving permission to those sites to link to....this list is also the list that is being blocked for any site NOT listed in the allowed box. My current configuration is: jpg,jpeg,gif,png,bmp,asf,avi (my movies were hogging my bandwidth) In order for some people to see some of my little extra smilies, I have to check the box for allow direct requests, otherwise I would have left it unchecked. Then activate the hot link protection. Does your screen say that it is enabled? If not, you still need to turn it on.

Well after many years of people being sick and dying in my family, we are down to only three of us. Never had crows around before or during all the illness or death, so maybe it's a sign that luck is changing for the better! And I like Friday the 13th too.

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To invite a flock of crows?

Can you say DUH!!!!!!!!!!?

How about a hint on that one????

When (if) our storms start in, they are a wonderful gift. Used to set your watch to it...every afternoon at 4pm we got a nice rain or thunderstorm that lasted an hour or so. When it would leave, outside temp would drop 15 degrees or so, making the evenings clear and very comfortable. The rain storms have the added benefit of clearing out the theme parks! HEHEHEHE Locals at the park just put on ponchos, get on a ride or two to wait out the storms. The rest of the evening is terrific with half the population in the parks!

Bird FEEDER = more bird poo Bird BATH = cheap entertainment for pets, no poo to clean so far My crow just reappeared at the bath....just drinking tonight. Oscar, my cat, is trying to talk bird. I had a cat that would not use a litter box if being watched....maybe the birds need protective screening (bushes, etc) to provide more sense of safety/security...HMMMM On the drought... You folks gotta grant that there is a difference! Comparing raisins and watermelons! Arizona is SUPPOSED to be dry. It has its own style of beauty, but is known as a dry state. Florida is supposed to be Tropical. We are supposed to have daily rain storms starting late spring throughout the summer. We are several inches down so far this year. We have acres of woodlands and underbrush burning uncontrollably, jumping fire lines, burning homes, threatening businesses. Smoke from the fires has caused multi-car pileups, road closures..... And the Keys have their own problem with water. One pipeline coming in with fresh water! (We go to Marathon every year). Fire hazards would be worst there...limited evacuation route!

A bluejay came by to drink just now, but no bath. Guess I just have a bunch of dirty birds!

I've seen some areas of Arizona first hand....parts of Florida are starting to look like it! NAH, not quite. Brush fires abound though, even Interstate 95 was closed for a few days due to smoke hazard and dead trees falling onto the roadway! With the run-off ponds drying out, leaving gullys of dry weeds, I was sure the bird bath would be appreciated by the neighborhood birds. Maybe it is not protected enough...to wide open to attack since it has no bushes or other protection nearby.

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The running water is not possible. We are in drought mode and limited watering allowed (unless I put in a pond/waterfall... and that's not likely to happen) The other birds have not even gotten into the water, only walk along the edge and drink. My mother also has a bird bath outside her computer room and cardinals and bluejays are always in attendence just before sundown. Her bath is not deeper than mine, and with the film on the windows, the birds can not see the salivating cats watching them so that is not a problem. The crow is as big as one of my cats! I won't refill after he leaves and see if the dribble of water that is left is more inviting than a full bath.....

A week and a half ago I put a simple bird bath in my front yard under a splindly Jerusalem Thorn tree (no shade from the wispy fine leaves and tiny yellow blossoms). I placed it there so it can be seen by me out my front window when I am at the computer. It's also 12 feet away from the cat's favorite perch so they could have some entertainment. The water is refreshed every evening when I get home. A pair of doves and a blue jay come to drink often. But the only one that uses it for drinking and bathing is a GIGANTIC black crow. He gets in and flaps around (driving the cats crazy ) but leaving no water behind. I have to go out an rinse/refill after his visit. Anyone have suggestions to get the other birds to bathe?

here's to the little ladies!

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Lovely comments! Love to hear when someone is enjoying the TCH experience!

Yes. On our main address for the office which is unrelated to TCH, we have a heavy-duty filter on our email server, then a secondary filter on my computer for spam, a junk mail filter and finally a rules filter inside Outlook. Today alone, our main address has received 64 of these image spams that have gotten through these traps! I usually get 30-40 per day that make it through all the filters, but this week I've had a dramatic increase. If the intent of spammers is to annoy, clog systems, interfere with business and generally cause a waste of time and money then they are on a high right now!!

And even if you have been told that the grass is greener, if you don't care, what difference does it make? When assistance is given without negative judgement or insulting the current software, an additional polite suggestion to look at better alternatives is far more likely to be considered.

Congratulations on your anniversary! And nice review!

Some people are afraid of change and can not conceive of learning a new browsing environment. One gentleman I have worked with for several years used AOL's 5.0 browser (not IE) until his machine failed this spring! He wanted to install the same one on his new machine and was absolutely mortified when I told him that he must update! He learned things one way and the idea of any change to that routine was a nightmare for him. Though I explained that he could see and do more using a different browser he had no interest, even for basic browsing (without getting into the techy stuff). Giving him assistance over the years has always been limited to the software he has, to remain in his comfort zone, with exception for the addition of spyware/adware software.

Welcome to the forum!

Glad you got it working! And thanks for posting your resolution. Might come in handy for someone else too!