Cancer Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 There is a woodpecker on the roof drumming on the metal cap of the chimney, making quite a noise. And he is a rather wet and soggy woodpecker, I will add, this rather drizzly morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 What on Earth is he doing that for? And in my home dialect, one species of woodpecker is called törrfuruvedagock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 It is thought that drumming on metal sounds louder, so it is more impressive to the lady woodpeckers who might be listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 And in my home dialect, one species of woodpecker is called törrfuruvedagock. I find one image in my websearch for that term, and that does resemble a sort we have here. Not the one doing today's drumming, though, which was a Northern Flicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 Reminds me somewhat of a Siberian Woodpecker I saw once. But just a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 Odd that woodpeckers don't seem to span the subarctic like mammals do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 Maybe they just speciate easily? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 No idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Could be they tend to stay in the same place, generation after generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Perhaps they never fly out of sight of trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 But there's taiga all the way around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Well, there's a big gap between Iceland and the rest of Europe. The Pacific gap isn't so large, though, I admit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 A bird could be blown across Bering's Straits, no problem. It'd probably be frozen solid, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Given that birds from the mainland show up in Hawaii every now and then, it's possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 But they don't carry coconuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 They could, with a creeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Given that birds from the mainland show up in Hawaii every now and then, it's possible. Yeah, we had a peregrine falcon show up here a couple of years ago. It was promptly shot. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 There's a report of a golden eagle that lived for a decade or so on Kauai that was killed in the early 1980s when it attacked a sightseeing helicopter in flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 My bad--it wasn't a peregrine falcon, it was a snowy owl. The falcon was a couple of years prior and, though weak and injured, presumably lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 A peregrine will eat pigeons and doves and do just fine. Peregrines show up rarely but naturally through most Pacific islands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 How many 3 gigaohm resistors must you connect in parallel to get a total resistance of 0.2 ohms? Heh heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 "Um, none, because resistance is futile?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 "Well, ... something here is certainly futile, I will concede that." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 :: puts on the Cone of Shame :: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Actually, it's a way of estimating the number of pores in a cell membrane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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