Hey Seramas,

That's great. Sometimes when we go fishing you can hear the males hollering for the females. My husband has whistled to them and they have actually flown over the water and circled our boat looking for the lady that answered him.

They are beautiful birds. We have a few around our house.

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That's fantastic to hear, I don't suppose that there is any chance of us getting you to make a recording of your birds singing, I personally really enjoy that kind of thing.

This link has professionally recorded song that is much clearer than anything I could do with my equipment.

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Cool! :) My chickens are just starting the get properly twitterpated for Spring, and the local sparrows have CLEARLY lost their marbles, like the do every year. The way they chase and chatter, and swirl all around people, just oblivious to them, is a scream.

Can't wait for about two months from now, when we break out the incubators and the webcam again!

Velvet ~:>

I didn't know they could live in the cold north! I'm going to start looking for some here in the spring. It's great that you have a greenhouse with a bird living in it. Great idea! I'm hoping to build a greenhouse this summer.

When keeping animals (especially birds) in greenhouses, when the sun is shining (even on cloudy days) it can get to 120F in a very short time-even when it is -20F (greenhouse effect). I use 2 discarded furnace squirrel cage fans mounted on the outside about 6' above the ground on one end of a 12'W-12'H-50'L greenhouse. On the opposite end of the greenhouse there are 4 openings (6"H x 12"W) covered with 1/2" hardware cloth fastened on the outside with a wooden frame(keeps out unwanted guests) and each opening has an inside door that can seal the opens and easily opened when needed. The 2 (nearest to the top as possible) upper doors are opened to exhaust hot air and the bottom doors (nearest the ground) are used to exhaust the ammonia odor that birds produce.

During the day the upper 2 doors are opened and the fans turned on if temps get too high (75F) summer and (40F) winter (I'm keeping only birds in it currently). While fans are on the entrance doors are kept closed raising the air pressure up on the inside forcing the hot air out the top doors. If ammonia odor is noticed the top doors are closed and lower ones opened (ammonia is heavier that regular air). Turing the fans on will force the ammonia out in a short period of time-again, be sure the entrance is closed.