06-20-2012, 06:49 PM
(06-20-2012, 06:41 PM)tvguy Wrote:(06-20-2012, 06:33 PM)Clone Wrote:(06-20-2012, 06:22 PM)PonderThis Wrote: I can't tell, are those violet green swallows? They nest in the same boxes that tree swallows nest in, and it seems to depend on your area which ones you get. I've had both.
I still don't think you're going to fill up an apartment house with the birds we have on the west coast. Everything I've read on those is they're for east of the Rocky Mountains, the dividing line for many birds and insects, too.
Yes, such as fireflies.
I guess I'm a bad mother; none of my sons have seen 'lightning bugs'.
I instant thought of lightning bugs also and then I thought of snapping turtles.
I think the ecosystem east of the rockies is much more diverse than here.
I read a book called "the earth in balance" by Al gore There was something in there about how there were more fish species in Tennessee than all of Europe.
BTW I thought it was a very good book and I believe in the sincerity of his beliefs because of it.
I'm glad we don't have water moccasins, though.
I had to share the creek with them when I was a kid in WV