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Swiss dialect, high German, French and Danish. With Schweiz having 4 languages, most folks are at least bi-lingual, all young ones also speak really good English. Margots 3 kids all speak fluent English and oldest granddaughter is learning it in school at age 9.

Especially us with no kids. The mail order bride just calls one of her 3 kids in Schweiz, when she is stuck.

I get smarter on apps all the time from having Mine, my 29 year old female apprentice. Apart from being becoming a good logger and climber, she has declared herself to be my "Tech support". I SOOOO lucked out with her. I needed that so much, as I'm useless with that stuff. We have a forest map...

May I suggest: the Cornell Merlin bird id app. Free and works fantastic on bird calls. I use it all the time when I hear something unusual.

I bet there is one sitting next to a Bachmann's warbler, someplace.

I have on several occasion pulled the nests down in Rook colonies, then put a plastic great horned owl up to discourage them from coming back. With great success. Can't figure what crows would work for.

Pull in some Sioux or Cheyenne, maybe.

'Bout 20 years ago Richard and I pulled over to watch a white tailed eagle eat a swan. Apparently we got too close, because it took off, carrying the swan in one set of talons. The lifting power of that thing was so impressive.

Sunday mornings I do the traditional Danish thing, if it is the mail order bride's week off, and go to the bakery for fresh bread. Bit of a drive, but well worth it. Coming back I saw a white tailed eagle. No traffic and it was flying parallel to the road, so I was able to enjoy it for a while...

The unusual cold spell we are having with snow and all, has brought some rare visitors to my bird feeders: Long tailed tit and Bullfinch. https://www.naturephoto-cz.com/halemejse-picture_da-16603.html https://naturguide.dk/den-farvestraalende-dompap/

This made me a bit envious:

The true " Prehistoric" was the Ivory billed woodpecker.

Your picture make me really pissed off that the leukemia put a stop to me visiting you this year. Lets hope it works out next year.

We have an extremely territorial White Wagtail that shows up every year. Any other male, he catches sight of, is attacked. Last year it was a male inside the side mirror on my motorcycle. The sheer agitation caused him to shit all over the bike. This year it was the side mirror on the Vw. Now...

That is it, all right. I'm guessing that as the climate gets warmer, we'll see more of them.

I had a really rare sighting today. A Great white Egret Egretta alba Those are seen very rarely here, like maybe one or two birds every year, that have been blown up from the south. I've seen lots of them in the Middle East and Southern Europe, but this was my first and most likely last in Europe.

My property looks like that, too. Birdhouses all over. No snow, though.h

They can be pests here, on the West coast. Been talk of letting hunters at them again. Problem is, the ones that are a winter pestilence are migrants, so they belong to some other country. Don't really want to go shooting someone elses swans.

Been protected since the 50es. We 'bout lost all our swans during the hard winters of WW2. We were at one time down to very few pairs of Mute swans. Now they are all over.

I heard a weird noise when I got outside to bring some firewood in. Turned out about 100 Whooper swans had touched down on the neighbour's field for a bit of foraging, and were whooping away..