Anybody heard from MudWasp

Has anybody heard anything from MudWasp? I haven't seen him on the forum in quite a while and I was wondering if he is alright.

No, now that you metion it - I also haven't.
Let's hope he had no hunting accident?
Holidays, maybe?

Last here on 14th March. I hope he's alright. Perhaps the mods can e-mail him?

Maybe, his Internet-Connection got lost in Space & Time... anyone got his Cell-Phone-# for an SMS?

I have his mailing address but no phone...

Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing.

I hope he's alright!

Some kind of WOFF wave in the air. Was thinking the same thing today.

MFair, you know me. I like to make sure my WOFF buddies are doing ok.

His last Twitch session was 29th April https://www.twitch.tv/mudcatsims/v/63503989

That's reassuring. Thanks Chucky

It'd be nice if he could get to the meetup in Dayton in October. I know I'd like to, and I'd hoped to meet up with him at some point anyway. Life is too stinking busy. But ya gotta pay them bills, and I have grown quite accustomed to eating (too accustomed actually...)

Did we ever find him? If he doesn't show up in a week or so, I could send out a snail mail....

I was ILL....

SORRY GUYS!!!!

Then sheet Broke along with my bank book for being Ill....


Sorrry I Didn't get in here...could barely walk ten feet to sheet with that nasty pnemonia that wa incorrectly diagnosed for half a week till I raised Caine.

I'm just glad you are doing better, I was missing you.

Thanks for thinking of me...sorry I did not communicate...
...I felt something from my fellow Birds Of Prey while laying flat.

THANKS!!!!





[video:google]https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDuDuRV2wNGFM&v=IPEMZteFjWc[/video]

Jeeze, several people around here had serious infections this spring!
Is that an epidemic running around the globe?

Welcome back, MudWasp! Good to see you again!
I hope you'll be able to balance the books and everything else soon!

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MudWasp, glad to see you are still on the green side of the sod. Hope your ills and woes are behind you and life is treating you proper again.

And a big Moody Blues fan here.

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Glad you're ok MW! Hope your cat didn't suffer too much through your illness.

I'm glad you're alright Mudwasp.

Me too! Hope you recover completely and can make it to Dayton in October. I think a bunch of us are going to be there. It' my first ever "man-cation"!

Pneumonia stinks, it really knocks you down. And you were mis-diagnosed? Nice of them to add a couple of days to your suffering...

Thanks Guys, I felt your presence when flat on me back...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPEMZteFjWc

Many thanks when I was Down...

It is what it is, with New Folks coming in, had it licked a decade ago, now it's back again.

Hope You are doing well.
It is Spring...hope you have new flowers and buds in your life.
...and cut the old dead growth.....

The Owls were following me last night as I walked the swamp.
Their Hoots I responded to .....
..as I made no noise
then my swamp walkers farted whilst walking...And I made my sound......
...lifting me feet...

From the mud...

...and they called back...
...gave me a fly over that jolted my attention...
....that "Swoop Sound" of wings

We exchanged versions of "Who Cooks For You", "Who Cooks for You ALL"

Somewhat Owl Related...

She is a lousy Owl Caller...

...but I like this Owl Tune...

Interesting, how an owl's face is made like a radar bowl, built to catch up
perfectly any incoming light and noise!
I guess that night they were checking what or who you are. Having a close look.
A new guy around. Let's see if he is okay.

Arriving at my charity work at the BERLINER TAFEL on the huge fruit and vegetable
market hall grounds on Saturday, I watched a red kite circling overhead.
Never seen one in the city before, and then so close - he circled at only 10 - 20 meters.

When he came into an area which was temporary crow territory, some of them tried
to attack the bigger red kite. But while the had to paddle hard with their wings
to follow, he mostly sailed without a single wing slap.

When three crows engaged him, something like a dogfight arose, a fight between quite
different "aircraft", with different tactics.
They approached him from 3 directions, but while they struggled, he only needed some
most dashing, elegant curves to avoid them. I could see very well, how he used his
"tailplane" most effectively to perform these turns.
When a crow managed to get into striking distance, he folded back his wings, dropped
with a simultanous half roll, and sailed away in the opposite direction.
Before the crow had managed to fly a 180° turn, he was already far from it.

Then he decided to show them, that they would be easy meat for him, if he wanted.
He went into a dive and shot fast overhead the main group of crows, which sat in a line
along the roof edge. He was only two feet over them, and their flight instict pushed
them up into the air, to escape the threat.
After that he went into a climb, still hardly slapping a wing at all, and he watched
the startled-up cloud of angry crows from his height advantage.
Although I wasn't close enough to recognise his face, I would bet he smiled a cool smile
about those black, agitated bandits.

(Mind you - I also like crows and ravens. Very intelligent birds.)

Thank You, I've delt with what ails ya too....this kicked my ass worse!

Glad you are doing well !

I like crows and ravens too....
...and all birds.....

...my first kill was a raven when then migrated thru my neck of the woods. I was 7 and took him with an arrow to the heart. My Father showed how to skin it, taught me some anatomy in da process, and we ate breast meat.

Been watching the Turkeys Spring Mating.... Didn't have the "Umpth" to go out, but let a couple young bucks hunt on my place.....LOL....watched the Turkey Mate while the young bucks were calling Jakes. I called one in for the youngest hunter on anutter day. He is a Kool Kid...

Those rough lickings on my face inspired me.

...Gotta love a cat, great hunters they are....

....and great friends

I'm running on most cylinders now....I was wondering at one point in Time

For my Cat, Dusty...
...his rough tongue awoke me, ruffed my nose red, he needed me, gave me a reason to get on my feet again. He keeps my shack mouse free too.

Starting to feel some "UMPH"...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw7ubMgByYQ#t=158.565624

I Love Spring Time..
an OddBall Toss....

Owls school house rock kinda thing...

Checking out the "to Do List".....
...the shack fell apart when I wasn't up and running...

Haha, funny pics in that video!

I just saw this one and wondered, how hard it can be for a bird to show it's affection
to a mamal, when it has no hands to stroke, no long tongue to lick, and no soft lips
to kiss. But I think you can see in this little video: she shows it bird's way.
As good as it gets...

Still Kicking....




and still hooting with the Owls....



Knocking down da 2do list...as life goes on.

I'll miss ya guys...
But I'll get my sheet together and Cope......as always....

Whittling away at da 2 do list...but many things sill broken...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKZ797AIuwA

My Krazy Get and Go song...

Birds are odd giving affection, they test their limits playing with their "friend".

Thanks, that was heart warming video.

Reminds some of when I was a young man, 12. Found an owl from a demolished barn and raised it for a few months. Before I set her free she would follow me on my newspaper delivery route tethered on and off to my newspaper shoulder bag. After that she would call out but stop by less often. Finally she made owl friends and distanced herself over time.

I still call to the owls, plenty around here. Sometimes I think one is a descendant of "Ears". Wishful thinking at best...LoL

I'm doing better...



...at least I'm in a good forest place.

How did you get to this song, MudWasp?
It is about the High Tatra, an area in Romania (I think).
Did your ancestors come from there?

BTW, High Tatra (Vysoké Tatry) are the highest mountains in northern Slovakia, on the border with Poland.

Ah, okay - thank you. Guess I was close - but not close enough!