It’s been a while since I last had anything to post about on my paper route. Of late my walk around the block has been lacking in anything adventurous… but now I have two things to report!
First, one of my customers has a robin’s nest tucked into the corner of the overhang above his front door where the mailbox is located. Every day I’m dive-bombed by an anxious male robin when I try to deliver the paper. Who knew male robins could be so aggressive? I would never hurt it, but it flies so close to my head that all I would need to do is raise my hand and I could knock the silly thing out of the air.
In other news, they trimmed Nosehair!
Before
After
I’m not sure if Nosehair is pleased with his freshly plucked proboscis… I, on the other hand, am considering a new nickname for my leafy friend. Any suggestions?
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July 26, 2013 at 12:59 pm
I’m thinking of the name, Butch. Sounds incredibly strong and no one’s going to mess with a tree by the name of Butch. Heck, I wouldn’t mess around with a tree who goes by the name Butch! 🙂
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July 26, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Too bad he’s not a birch… then again it’s a tongue twister I wouldn’t want to mess up. 😉
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July 26, 2013 at 1:46 am
I like Nosehair with his new look! I’d leave the name like this, I’d like to play with the idea that during the night he went to the tree-barber!
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July 26, 2013 at 1:50 pm
He is looking rather dapper all cleaned up. Maybe I’ll wait a while and see if his nose hair grows back. 🙂
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July 26, 2013 at 1:52 pm
It might be! Or he just might go to the tree plastic surgeon!!! Oh dear, I need to stop with coffee!
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July 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm
I doubt it was laser treatment… the risk of burning’s rather high for a tree…
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July 27, 2013 at 2:42 am
but the use a special tree laser!!!
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July 27, 2013 at 4:26 pm
Of course! Why didn’t I think of that?
hehe
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July 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm
😀
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July 25, 2013 at 9:45 pm
We always get the one bird family that insists on building their nest right under the porch eave, even though we’re in-and-out of that door several times a day – and put a container garden there. And every year, they dive bomb the plants and make their displeasure known (they don’t dive-bomb us though, thankfully!)
And I like Snodgrass, as suggested above… quite posh.
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July 25, 2013 at 10:19 pm
The people I deliver to use that door all the time as well. Maybe that’s why the robin has become so accustomed to attacking. I can be standing there for as little as a half a minute and he’ll have flown at me three times.
Two votes for Snodgrass! Duly noted. 🙂 Thanks for the comment.
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July 25, 2013 at 3:49 pm
How about Shorn.
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July 25, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Ooh, nice. It will certainly work until his nose hair grows back. 🙂
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July 25, 2013 at 3:27 pm
What about Nonosehairhere?
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July 25, 2013 at 10:14 pm
That’ll work as long as I haven’t been drinking haha! Thanks for the suggestion.
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July 25, 2013 at 2:51 pm
I know just how angry and feisty Robins can be!! As to Nose Hair I think he looks rather posh now ….. how about Snodgrass??
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July 25, 2013 at 2:53 pm
That sounds very posh! I’ll put it at the top of my list. 🙂
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July 25, 2013 at 3:23 pm
You’ve had dealings with aggressive robins? I had no idea they could be so brave.
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July 25, 2013 at 4:21 pm
They are very territorial
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July 25, 2013 at 1:57 pm
The tree formerly known as Nosehair?
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July 25, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Hahahahaha! And representing him in print is one of those helicopter seed thingies. That works!
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