Napril 2026 Discussion/Obs

[SJonesWX]

finished the month with 2 1/2" of rain. 

[tamarack]

2 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Dam…never realized that. Birds can be ferocious.  Animal world is certainly no joke. Chicken be like, No offense…but I need to eat, so it’s game on. 
 

Great information.

I still have a scar from a rooster attack in May of 2024.  Was taking some veggie scraps to the grandkids' flock in SNJ, all the hens came as a swarm and "Houdini" (kids name all the birds, of course) wasn't tolerating competition for ruling the hens.  Its 2nd attack was repelled when I (carefully) flipped the rooster onto its back, after which it scooted next to the pen and crowed a dozen times - "I won! I won!"  Then I noticed the blood running into my shoe.

[Ginx snewx]

15 minutes ago, tamarack said:

I still have a scar from a rooster attack in May of 2024.  Was taking some veggie scraps to the grandkids' flock in SNJ, all the hens came as a swarm and "Houdini" (kids name all the birds, of course) wasn't tolerating competition for ruling the hens.  Its 2nd attack was repelled when I (carefully) flipped the rooster onto its back, after which it scooted next to the pen and crowed a dozen times - "I won! I won!"  Then I noticed the blood running into my shoe.

Mine got me. Scar remains. Old Ginger is a beast. Sardines? @dendrite

[tunafish]

8 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Mine got me. Scar remains. Old Ginger is a beast. Sardines? @dendrite

 

24 minutes ago, tamarack said:

I still have a scar from a rooster attack in May of 2024.  Was taking some veggie scraps to the grandkids' flock in SNJ, all the hens came as a swarm and "Houdini" (kids name all the birds, of course) wasn't tolerating competition for ruling the hens.  Its 2nd attack was repelled when I (carefully) flipped the rooster onto its back, after which it scooted next to the pen and crowed a dozen times - "I won! I won!"  Then I noticed the blood running into my shoe.

Are these spur or beak wounds?  I'm glad my city has a no-rooster rule, they intimidate me.

My surviving hen from flock 1 is defensive of the 1.5 year old flock 2 hens.  I picked one up when she was stubborn about coming in at dusk and when I went to set her down in the run, the old hen delivered a direct peck (more of a bite, actually) to the back of my hand. 

 

This is now the chicken thread plz rename and pin @dendrite.

[tamarack]

Spur.  There were supposed to be all hens when a couple dozen was purchased 4-5 years back, but 2 were roosters, so the dominant one (Houdini) ruled the roost, frequently pounding the other rooster, Meriodoc (and other trespassers).  Both are now deceased.

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, tunafish said:

 

Are these spur or beak wounds?  I'm glad my city has a no-rooster rule, they intimidate me.

My surviving hen from flock 1 is defensive of the 1.5 year old flock 2 hens.  I picked one up when she was stubborn about coming in at dusk and when I went to set her down in the run, the old hen delivered a direct peck (more of a bite, actually) to the back of my hand. 

 

This is now the chicken thread plz rename and pin @dendrite.

Spur at full speed 

[weathafella]

4 hours ago, rclab said:

At least by that time the Mets attempted replay of their 1962 inaugural season will be over.
Stay hopeful, as always ……

 

[WinterWolf]

5 hours ago, tunafish said:

Never a doomer myself and always laughed at them. Especially the bunker-type (although I still laugh at them - first was on the premise of end-times being near, but now for thinking their efforts will matter (they won't)).  Thought it was just mankind being mankind, thinking the end is near.  

My tune has changed since the Epstein files were released.  I always sort of knew capitalism ruled, and 99.9% of people are just a means to the elites end, but never realized the span and depth of their control.  People can shout conspiracy, but it's pretty much validated now - democracy isn't real, you are merely a dollar sign, nothing you do or say matters (beyond hyper-locally), and it's top vs. bottom, not left vs. right.  

But the SS change has sailed.  Unless it's a full-scale revolution of the 99% stomping out the 1% - but we're too fat/happy/distracted to pull that off now.  The total control/surveillance state is actually here (hi!) after 2+ decades of slowly normalizing it.

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One of the silent issues nobody is talking about is the exponential proliferation of data centers and the economic and environmental impact they'll continue to have.

We're rapidly being pushed towards an economic and natural resource crisis that'll result in the total takeover of the 99% - and it'll be done without a single bullet, quite easily.  And by the time it happens there will still be people shouting about climate change, and gender identity, and human life being a bad use of tax dollars (while not mentioning the tax dollars that are used to line pockets), and whether or not their favorite public figure is a pedophile.

Don’t get too worried …you’ll be dead long before anything like that happens. 

[tamarack]

April numbers:
Avg max:   52.4    +0.3    Highest, 72 on the 27th
Avg min:    30.4    +1.5    Lowest, 14 on the 8th
Mean:        41.4     +0.9  

Precip:   4.00"   -0.06"   Wettest day:   1.18" on the 30th.  Storm tried hard to avoid the 7th consecutive BN month (10th of 11) but fell just short.

Snow:   2.4"   -2.5"  (But right on the median)    2.0" of 22:1 fluff fell 9:15-10;45 PM on 4/7, reported on the 8th as my 4/7 obs came at 9 PM.
SDDs:  one, on the 1st.  The 2" fluff was intact at 7 AM for 4/8 cocorahs, but was gone long before my obs.

Very average month in many ways - temp within 1°, near avg precip and median snowfall.  The warmest and the lowest were within 1° of the 28-year medians (both below).
Available sunshine was 43%, on the average for April.
We had no powerful storms, a tune that's played for quite a while, but did have a garden-variety TS late evening of the 16th.   For 8-10 minutes there was about 2"/hr rate. 
Half of our Aprils have had at least one thunder day.


 

[rclab]

2 hours ago, weathafella said:

 

June 21st 1964 I was in attendance and watched thousands of Mets fans morph into Phillies fans near the end of Jim Bunnings perfect game. I was 17 and had taken my 10 year old cousin to the game. We sat loyally quiet as the newly converted Phillies fans went wild around us. We also sat through the second game loss but at least they scored two runs while giving up 8. As always ….

[tamarack]

4 minutes ago, rclab said:

June 21st 1964 I was in attendance and watched thousands of Mets fans morph into Phillies fans near the end of Jim Bunnings perfect game. I was 17 and had taken my 10 year old cousin to the game. We sat loyally quiet as the newly converted Phillies fans went wild around us. We also sat through the second game loss but at least they scored two runs while giving up 8. As always ….

Totally different subject - 4 days before the above, my supervisor when I began (Jan 5, 1976)as a forester was at the crew camp next to the Canadian border in far northwestern Maine.  He woke up on the 17th to see 3" of snow.