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redviking
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Initially Posted - 06/09/2008 :  08:53:01  Show Profile
I'll try to post some pics when I get a chance of my bird. BUT, we are approx 30 nm off of NYC when an unexpected visitor arrives. "Schlooofy" - yiddish for sleepy - the bird has landed on our vessel. Small cute little fellow immediately flies below and takes up residence. I have read about tame offshore birds and am aware that they often are so tired and/or sick that they often die before reaching land, so I am concerned that he will die somewhere down below and we won't know where to look for him. SO, I try to find him. He has made a little nook for himself and looks at me like, "Can I just hang here for awhile Captain?" I reach in to help coax him out when he just hops onto my finger!

He is apparently unafraid and I carry him to the cockpit. We offer him food and water. Water he sorta understands, but bread was a very foreign substance. Anyhow, he flies off to the North only to return a half hour later. Then he flies to the south, again returning after a much lesser period of time. I decided to use a large sun hat to hold him in and place him on a paper plate down below in the nav station. I check on him several times. He chirps appreciatively and often has his head nestled under his wings, sleeping - hence the nickname.

Anyway, at about 21:00 I check on him again. Schlooofy has passed and we gave him a proper burial at sea. He probably knew he was in trouble and didn't want to die alone, so we took some solace in the fact that his last moments were warm and dry with us to look after him.

Now about the biting black flies. Who woulda thunk that you would find these nasty bugs that far off? Hundreds of them swarmed Lysistrata. I would kill 5 in each blow of the fly swatter only to find that there were even more!!! They would bite right thru your socks! Painful. Eventually we hung three fly strips and captured the majority while bloodying the decks with the carnage. A spider has taken up residence back by the wind vane steering system and he was getting fat and happy... Arrgghhh! How is this possible?

Anyone know of a small 12 volt boat sized bug zapper for these kinds of situations?

Sten

DPO C25 #3220 "Zephyr", SR, FK
SV Lysistrata - C&C 39 - Newport RI
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 06/09/2008 :  08:58:17  Show Profile
I actually saw a solar powered set at the local Home Depot the other day. They look like the lights you'd put around your garden or walkway, only blue. I assume they have the same kind of "Zap" screen.
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 06/11/2008 :  15:15:07  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
One more item for the check list ........... bird seed!
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