A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

[Beachwalker]

Nice....idk anything about the brand. Lots good numbers, only one way to find out uh?
Everything cost a bunch now a daze.
They look prutty good from here!!!

They only make grow lights so idk, but they've got to be better than i-power

I'll see if the second i-power bulb works tonight and go from there

 

[steamroller]

Have you ever replaced the capacitor?
IME little experience they are the fire it up part.. And cheapest part to start on.
No clue if you use newer digital ballast. I remember the old school multivolt ballast.
A good bulb could be $100 IMO. Hortilux was going to be my recommendation also.

 

[Beachwalker]

Have you ever replaced the capacitor?
IME little experience they are the fire it up part.. And cheapest part to start on.
No clue if you use newer digital ballast. I remember the old school multivolt ballast.
A good bulb could be $100 IMO. Hortilux was going to be my recommendation also.

No I just bought another (digital) ballast, it only does it when the high pressure sodium bulb is installed so seems to me it's got to be the bulb.

The other bulb is in now so I'll see what happens in less than 6 hours

 

[Beachwalker]

So the new HPS bulb struck normally last night but I'm not out of the woods yet, I'm going to keep an eye on it

 

[Beachwalker]

Hummingbirds are back

 

[steamroller]

They arrived here in NY about 2 weeks ago, but not on the regular yet.
We have had a couple that went to where we had feeders last year like they knew.
Wondering if it is possible they are returning to us and have been " here " before.
They are so cool.
We get humming bird moths eventually when the flowers are all blooming nice mid summer.

 

[Beachwalker]

They arrived here in NY about 2 weeks ago, but not on the regular yet.
We have had a couple that went to where we had feeders last year like they knew.
Wondering if it is possible they are returning to us and have been " here " before.
They are so cool.
We get humming bird moths eventually when the flowers are all blooming nice mid summer.

saw one about a week ago but didn't see any others until today, was a whole bunch of them out there at one point. I never heard of hummingbird moths, I'll have to look that one up

 

[steamroller]

saw one about a week ago but didn't see any others until today, was a whole bunch of them out there at one point. I never heard of hummingbird moths, I'll have to look that one up

From a distance it is easy to think they are bumble bees or the like.
They are very cool and like the same flowers hummingbirds do.
They look like shrimp with wings to me and are the coolest thing in summer to me.
Used to see walking sticks also but not in years now.

 

[Beachwalker]

Passing a window last night in the wee hours I happened to see a red fox running up the middle of the road -only second one I've seen since I've been here

 

[Beachwalker]

Passing a window last night in the wee hours I happened to see a red fox running up the middle of the road -only second one I've seen since I've been here

Okay I got to say it cuz it's been bothering me, it looked like a fox to me but there's a chance it could have been a coyote

Regardless, we've got bigger problems now

 

[doublej]

Okay I got to say it cuz it's been bothering me, it looked like a fox to me but there's a chance it could have been a coyote

Regardless, we've got bigger problems now View attachment 101749

I would look up some info on Black Bear bud...interweb the picture...pretty sure I've seen a bunch

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Okay I got to say it cuz it's been bothering me, it looked like a fox to me but there's a chance it could have been a coyote

Regardless, we've got bigger problems now View attachment 101749

Black bear were rare in my area when I was young. It was pretty exciting to see one. Now, they're thick and a nuisance. I have to keep the garbage locked up or they come through and create a trail of trash dragging it through the woods. I pretty much like all animals, but prefer black bear being further from home, lol.

We have red foxes, but they're less common. We have more gray foxes around here. They used to be really thick when I was a kid. There was a butcher shop that used to dump bones back in a hollow. There were some run-ins with rabid foxes. Neighbors killed one trying to get into a pen with their coon dogs. There were a few stories like that. Chop the fox's head off and send it in for testing.

 

[Beachwalker]

Black bear were rare in my area when I was young. It was pretty exciting to see one. Now, they're thick and a nuisance. I have to keep the garbage locked up or they come through and create a trail of trash dragging it through the woods. I pretty much like all animals, but prefer black bear being further from home, lol.

We have red foxes, but they're less common. We have more gray foxes around here. They used to be really thick when I was a kid. There was a butcher shop that used to dump bones back in a hollow. There were some run-ins with rabid foxes. Neighbors killed one trying to get into a pen with their coon dogs. There were a few stories like that. Chop the fox's head off and send it in for testing.

That's the same road I hit the deer on but I have no idea what part of the road that picture was from

I read that all these solar farms that they're putting in in these rural areas are driving them into the more settled areas, don't know if that's true but it sounds reasonable

We had a confirmed rabid raccoon next town over recently