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Well the cowbirds are a “parasitic” bird. The mother lays eggs in the nests of other birds and doesn’t raise them on her own until they leave the nest. The cowbird eggs tend to hatch first and grow larger more rapidly and the babies can actually toss the youngins from the other bird out of the nest. So the cowbird has a distinct advantage over the other phoebes. The cowbirds are native so this is a natural thing that has been happening for some time. But I’d rather lose 1 cowbird than risk losing 4 phoebes.

12z MAV with a 12° for BML. lol

nah they like the cooler temps. They would install in April like you if they could.

Reverse the AC and blow the hot air in?

Hoping for 30+ here and only a couple hours of it. Better yet, keep the wind up and stay above freezing. The apples and pears are pretty tough so I'm not too worried about them unless we start getting into the 20s. The orchards in the MRV may be a different story...especially CON/Loudon. I'm worried there will be no PYO peaches at Carter Hill Orchard this year. I haven't had a lot of experience with this much cold this late with my pawpaw trees, but I think they'll be fine too. It is what it is. Most of the potted plants will be coming in...even the figs and avocados. I did have the avos outside for that May 2020 snow/cold event and they survived despite a little leaf burning.

Pretty cold airmass for the 2nd half of May. Sometimes we can go a week in January higher than this.

He'll run with his bush league high of 63F at 1am.

Sorry...the 50/21 was CON, not here. I'm only 46.8F right now at 1pm.

You’ll be ok on the hill I think if the CON min is 27°+. I’ll be borderline here. I’m leaning something like 32-34° there, 30-32° here, and 27-29° at CON.

Not a fan of seeing 50/21 right now though.

I’ll take the over on that 22° for CON. The 5/18 record is 25°, the latest 22° is 5/11/1900, and it has also never been colder than 24° past that 5/11 date.

Yikes

I wish. That would at least smell like Subway.

Smells like an ash tray out here this evening. The sun has been orange-red for hours

Undulatus asperatus

So I have an eastern phoebe brooding under the roof of my chicken run. I went up to check the eggs a bit ago and noticed a speckled egg mixed in that belongs to a brown headed cowbird. What’s the protocol on that? Should I remove the egg so that the phoebes have a better chance at survival or let nature be?

12z MAV for Thu morning. Not a fan.

Up to 69F It'd be nice to see the sun today.

Definitely a golden glow out there today.

Oh that was my point. Less shortwave heating during the day, but not much longwave effect at night.

In cases where it’s thinner…doesn’t it affect shortwave rad more than longwave?

BML and HIE 17°

MEX with 26° at CON Thu morning.

Anyone else noticing a lot of smoke in the air this evening?

d16 goofus op. You hate to see it.