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[turbo]

Never heard about it.

I have been unable to find any mention of that, Borek. However, if you Google Psoralens, you'll find that parsnips, celery, fennel, and other foods contain them.

 

[baywax]

I have been unable to find any mention of that, Borek. However, if you Google Psoralens, you'll find that parsnips, celery, fennel, and other foods contain them.

I should have known better than to repeat the myths my older brother used to tell me! I can't find any mention of arsenic in parsnip either... but as turbo says, Psoralens are present in them...

Here's a great history about parsnips from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (Illinois)

http://www.Newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/400-499/nb413.htm

Toward the end of the paper it is mentioned how wild parsnip looks similar to wild hemlock (deadly) and kills the livestock that mistake it for parsnip...

The Water Hemlock or Musquash Root also grows in wet places. Its
roots, which smell like parsnips, and its seeds, contain a deadly poison
and many cattle are killed by eating its young shoots in spring. The
poison Hemlock, closely related, is supposed to have furnished the "cup
of death" given to Socrates.

Parsnips can also be used to make wine or, as in Europe, delicious soup.

 

[Evo]

I got a picture of the NotaGoshawk!

From a distance, from the back, with his head blocked by a branch...

 

[turbo]

I got a picture of the NotaGoshawk!

From a distance, from the back, with his head blocked by a branch...

Sure looks like a Goshawk. Harriers have long slim tails, too, barred with white tips. BUT, harriers have a prominent white patch at the base of the tail, which this critter doesn't seem to have.

 

[Evo]

Wow, what a snow storm! My dog, the Fruit bat, walked off the porch and sank headfirst into the snow when he no longer had any patio under him. Poor thing. He can't even leave the patio now, the snow is over his head. Lovely, I have yellow snow on the corner of my patio.

Birds have been crashing into my windows all day, I thought they were flying *into* the windows, but I happened to be looking out the window when one was flying by and a sudden gust of wind slammed him sideways into the window. That makes more sense.

Aha, I hear them digging out my front door, I had a three foot pile of snow in front of it when I tried to open it earlier.

 

[lisab]

Sure looks like a Goshawk. Harriers have long slim tails, too, barred with white tips. BUT, harriers have a prominent white patch at the base of the tail, which this critter doesn't seem to have.

Here's a Northern Goshawk:

That pic is from an http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/IFWIS/ibt/site.aspx?id=N16". It does look like a Goshawk.

 

[Evo]

Here's a Northern Goshawk:

That pic is from an http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/IFWIS/ibt/site.aspx?id=N16". It does look like a Goshawk.

Nope, looks nothing like my bird. Mine is solid charcoal gray on the back and solid white from above his eyes down to his toes in the front, with a grey mohawk. Looks nothing like a goshawk. There are zero stripes or markings on my bird. It's NotaGoshawk. Also, the northern Goshawk has an elongated beak, my bird has a beak almost flush with it's face.

See here for it's long face/beak, mine bird has a very flat face. http://www.zazzle.com/goshawk_card-137942816305526347

 

[Kurdt]

Osprey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Osprey_mg_9605.jpg

 

[Astronuc]

I got a picture of the NotaGoshawk!

From a distance, from the back, with his head blocked by a branch...

The tail is long and grey with black or dark bands. The posterior view looks like it is a Goshawk.

 

[Evo]

shape of the head is wrong for a goshawk. I'm thinking it's a mutant red tail, because when it's flying overhead, there are rust colored feathers on the underside of the tail. It just really doesn't fit in with any hawk descripttion I've seen. I have plenty of other hawks that are normal, this one is really unusual from the front.

 

[Borek]

No reasonably large water body close to Evo's place.

 

[Astronuc]

shape of the head is wrong for a goshawk. I'm thinking it's a mutant red tail, because when it's flying overhead, there are rust colored feathers on the underside of the tail. It just really doesn't fit in with any hawk descripttion I've seen. I have plenty of other hawks that are normal, this one is really unusual from the front.

It could be a variant.

There are some hawks that cross-breed, but I don't know how common. I think redtails cross-breed with one or two other species.

As for the beak, if it was looking downward toward the ground, it might appear the beak is flush with the face. Hawks have protruding beaks, but owls have short beaks close to the face, and that is definitely not an owl.

I doubt that is a harrier. We have harriers in our area, and they nest primarily along the major river, and perhaps near certain lakes and streams - basically where there are plenty of fish.

 

[dlgoff]

Looks a lot like a Harris Hawk to me but what's it doing in this part of the country. They usually stay in the far south or Mexico.
http://folk.uib.no/oodre/Gallerier/Blog/Harris%20Hawk.jpg

 

[rewebster]

I got a picture of the NotaGoshawk!

From a distance, from the back, with his head blocked by a branch...

this look like a gravy/sauce boat stuck in the tree

 

[Evo]

OMG, rewebster, you're not dead!

 

[rewebster]

I'm that sauce pan in the tree

 

[Evo]

I'm that sauce pan in the tree

I have to ban you now for being AWOL.

 

[Andre]

Welcome back Rewebster

I entered another crop of this picture of a Harris hawk in the photo contest, several months ago.

 

[rewebster]

I have to ban you now for being AWOL.

AWOL= Apparently Wondering On Life

 

[rewebster]

Welcome back Rewebster

I entered another crop of this picture of a Harris hawk in the photo contest, several months ago.

HEY! ANDRE!----that looks like its been crossed with a macaw with those colors

 

[rewebster]

I have to ban you now for being AWOL.

I read your 'story' in the 'relationships' thread-------


sounds like that guy was a peacock with a set of bad feathers

 

[rewebster]

OMG, rewebster, you're not dead!

After re-reading this and thinking about it, I'm humbled that that was your first thought about my absence

 

[Evo]

I got this shot accidently, I was going to take a picture of my dog falling into 3 foot deep snow, but he stopped for a "break". See the snowflake next to the bat? There are 4 more, but this one is the biggest.

 

[Evo]

Oh come on, that snowflake is cool!

 

[lisab]

Oh come on, that snowflake is cool!

Lol...yes it is!

But to tell you the truth, I was so busy trying to figure out the geometry of the dog, it took a while to see the flake .

 

[Evo]

Lol...yes it is!

But to tell you the truth, I was so busy trying to figure out the geometry of the dog, it took a while to see the flake .

Ahaha, I didn't notice the snowflakes at first either, kurdt noticed.

 

[Borek]

So, what do you grow in your garden?

 

[turbo]

So, what do you grow in your garden?

Pees. Uh, peas.

 

[rewebster]

I tried broccoli this last year. After chopping off the main head, I let the plants still remain and I picked small florets all the way up until the first freeze.

I didn't get around to turning the soil this fall and adding compose, fert., and peat, and that was the first time I hadn't. It will be interesting to see if things do as well this next year.

 

[turbo]

I tried broccoli this last year. After chopping off the main head, I let the plants still remain and I picked small florets all the way up until the first freeze.

I didn't get around to turning the soil this fall and adding compose, fert., and peat, and that was the first time I hadn't. It will be interesting to see if things do as well this next year.

We had two types of broccoli last season. One type had a single large head, and the other type had multiple smaller heads that were not as tightly packed. Overall, we got more usable food out of the type with the multiple heads, plus the stalks were smaller and more tender.