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Post by pickinduck on Dec 17, 2014 8:50:58 GMT -6
Binoculars aren't necessary just helpful. Here where I am it is a sea of green and almost no plant stands alone. A pair of close focus binoculars should help save time and effort when it comes to traversing the landscape. Humans have 2 eyes facing forward because they say we are predators and we seen more shades of green then any other color because of hunting for plants. That is the reason that night vision scopes use green light.
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Post by sherlew99 on Dec 17, 2014 11:03:28 GMT -6
That's a good idea since some of those plants are so small. Also, that make and model has some rather good reviews at Amazon.
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Post by pickinduck on Dec 17, 2014 13:19:32 GMT -6
Getting back to acorns. I have been thinking a lot about them. What a wonderful food source for humans. What makes them a wonderful food source is that because most of them need to be process it is a protected food source for us. We don't need to compete with other animals for it.
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Post by sherlew99 on Dec 17, 2014 17:14:27 GMT -6
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Post by pickinduck on Dec 17, 2014 19:44:21 GMT -6
Some but not many. There are plenty of red & black oak acorns around here. The main animal eater of them here is the blue jays. When the acorns are in season the blue jays scream like crazy and their life span is only 5 years. I have always associated the screaming and very short life span with the eating of raw black oak acorns.
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Post by sherlew99 on Dec 17, 2014 20:28:27 GMT -6
I think it has more to do with them being jays than anything else.
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Post by sherlew99 on Dec 17, 2014 20:32:04 GMT -6
Hubby says that we have awesome, stellar (Steller's) jays here. lol
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Post by pickinduck on Dec 17, 2014 20:53:43 GMT -6
Do they scream and eat acorns? What is their life span?
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Post by sherlew99 on Dec 17, 2014 21:29:01 GMT -6
Oh yes, they scream, hop around and eat acorns along with many other foods. They can be real pests at picnic and camp site areas too. The oldest jay recorded lived for 16 years and one month. Steller's Jay
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Post by pickinduck on Jan 3, 2015 20:31:42 GMT -6
I was wondering about the poison in the seeds of choke cherry & black cherry. He explains it at the end of the video. Native Americans processed a lot of their food to make it edible. How did they learn or know how to do this? It is advanced chemistry and biology. No one else has pointed this out yet. Your hearing it first here folks. Here is a brief list of the poisonous plants off the top of my head that native Americans processed and ate. Acorns, Jack-in-the pulpit, choke cherry, black cherry. I know there is more. I hit a mental block
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Post by sherlew99 on Jan 3, 2015 20:40:13 GMT -6
Perhaps you'll remember more later. I've often wondered how ancient peoples figured out which plants were good to use for medicine and food. I suspect much of it was by trail and error due to necessity.
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Post by pickinduck on Jan 4, 2015 9:52:36 GMT -6
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Post by sherlew99 on Jan 4, 2015 12:48:08 GMT -6
Wow, nice and very versatile. I like the fact that it can be used for so many things.
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