Birds are my neighbors too. Bless you Al Batt for feeling that way.
As for the mice and the dime, well, I guess I can quit trying to stop cracks with stainless steel wool. I do grieve for having to take the lives of these small creatures when they make home in my kitchen, but ew, the brown lines along the baseboards and in the corners. The pellets in the cupboards.
As for what Barn Owls were called before barns, now that is a deep subject that we may never know the answer to. I would like to know what they call themselves.
Wow. And to think I only knew Bat Masterson from the TV show. ;)
Birds are my neighbors too. Bless you Al Batt for feeling that way.
As for the mice and the dime, well, I guess I can quit trying to stop cracks with stainless steel wool. I do grieve for having to take the lives of these small creatures when they make home in my kitchen, but ew, the brown lines along the baseboards and in the corners. The pellets in the cupboards.
As for what Barn Owls were called before barns, now that is a deep subject that we may never know the answer to. I would like to know what they call themselves.
Love it. And I learned a new concept--the subnivean zone. Etymology sub--below, and nivean, Latin for snow. "OED's earliest evidence for subnivean is from 1845, in the writing of Sylvester Judd, novelist." https://www.oed.com/dictionary/subnivean_adj?tl=true#:~:text=Where%20does%20the%20adjective%20subnivean%20come%20from?&text=The%20earliest%20known%20use%20of,%2C%20nix%2C%20%E2%80%91ean%20suffix.