BIRDLAND FREE PRESS: 2017

FULL CIRCLE FARM / 6 JANUARY 2017

UPDATE / 28 OCT 2017 -- Since the last Birdland Free Press update on 16 May 2017 regarding keeping chickens at the new SCUSD farm; I spoke to the new farm manager and he said they will eventually reintroduce chickens to the farm. So this lofty and noble goal of keeping chickens at the farm has finally been achieved; and I want to thank those of you who spoke out on the issue for not being a bunch of chickens. But it appears yet another problem has sprung up as of late in that the new farm manager and/or the SCUSD (not sure which; maybe both because I have seen an SCUSD truck parked inside the farm at night lately) has hired a gopher abatement service that has all but decimated the California ground squirrel population at the Peterson Middle School field in the past few months. (note: there is still a healthy population of ground squirrels nearby at a location I will not specify at this time)

I spoke to a Birdland neighbor while exercising at the Peterson field who said dogs that are walked at the field are getting sick from the rodenticide being used; so what I am asking of you this time around is to contact the various specified entities seen below and ask for natural solutions to control the ground squirrels population at the Peterson field.

Owl boxes were once installed surrounding the farm parcel during the time of the opening of the Full Circle farm by the State of California; but most owls are nocturnal and not crepuscular and/or active around sunrise and/or sunset. Therefore fledgling predatory birds (falcons and/or hawks etc) need to be physically relocated within these various boxes to create an imprint on the farm territory and increase the chances of annual nesting within the boxes. But permission from a government wildlife agency is needed to do this kind of thing; so I have included contact information for various entities including the California Department of Fish and Wildlife so you can make suggestions regarding this important subject.

THIS IS BIRDLAND! BIRDS ARE THE NATURAL SOLUTION!

1) SIGN THE PETITION! DEMAND AND END TO THE SCUSD POISONING OF CALIFORNIA GROUND SQUIRRELS AT PETERSON FIELD IN SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA! @ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/573/889/888/demand-and-end-to-the-poisoning-of-california-ground-squirrels-at-peterson-field/

2) CONTACT THE SCUSD MAINTENANCE AND FACILITIES DEPARTMENT AND TELL THEM TO STOP ALLOWING THE MASS POISONING OF GROUND SQUIRRELS AT THE PETERSON FIELD! TELL THEM SINCE THIS IS THE BIRDLAND NEIGHBORHOOD PLEASE REPLACE THIS BARBARIC PRACTICE WITH NATURAL METHODS OF RODENT CONTROL USING THE OWL BOXES INSTALLED BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA INSTEAD!

BUT SINCE MOST OWL SPECIES ARE NOCTURNAL AND NOT CREPUSCULAR LIKE GROUND SQUIRRELS; CREPUSCULAR FLEDGLING HAWKS AND/OR FALCONS WHO WILL RETURN ANNUALLY NEED TO BE RELOCATED TO THESE BOXES INSTEAD -- WITH AUTHORIZATION FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FOR LONG TERM GROUND SQUIRREL MAINTENANCE AND/OR SURVIVAL...

3) EMAIL SCUSD AND SAY: "PLEASE DO NOT MASS POISON GROUND SQUIRRELS AT THE NEW PETERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL FARM! REPLACE WITH NATURAL METHODS! THIS IS THE BIRDLAND NEIGHBORHOOD! PLEASE USE BIRDS AS A SOLUTION!"

Jim Canova / Email: <jcanova@scusd.net> (408) 423-2006

Albert Gonzalez / Email: <asgonzalez@scusd.net> (408) 246-6252

Jodi Muirhead / Email: <jmuirhead@scusd.net> (408) 444-6160

Andrew Ratermann / Email: <aratermann@scusd.net> (408) 244-4548

Mark Richardson / Email: <mrichardson@scusd.net> (408) 423-2006

Michele Ryan, Ph.D. / Email: <mryan@scusd.net> (408) 673-1620

Noelani Pearl Hunt / Email: <nsallings@scusd.net> (408) 480-8671

4) ALSO! CONTACT THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AND ASK FOR SPECIAL PERMISSION TO MOVE FLEDGLING HAWKS AND/OR FALCONS INTO THE PETERSON FIELD OWL BOXES TO ENSURE LONG TERM MAINTENANCE AND/OR SURVIVAL @ https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/explore/contact-us

5) AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT; CONTACT THE SUNNYVALE CITY COUNCIL AND TELL THEM: "STOP ALLOWING MASS POISONING OF GROUND SQUIRRELS AT THE PETERSON FIELD! REPLACE WITH NATURAL METHODS! THIS IS THE BIRDLAND NEIGHBORHOOD! PLEASE USE BIRDS AS A SOLUTION!" @ Council AnswerPoint <council@sunnyvale.ca.gov>

NOTE: PLEASE BE COURTEOUS WHEN ADDRESSING YOUR CONCERNS. THANK YOU.

SEE ALSO: CALIFORNIA GROUND SQUIRRELS @ PETERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL FIELD IN SUNNYVALE
https://lreblogger.blogspot.com/2017/10/california-ground-squirrels-peterson.html

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THE PERSON OF INTEREST SEEN IN THE ABOVE PHOTO ALLEGEDLY BROKE MISSY CATS’ BACK ON THUNDERBIRD AVENUE CAUSING HER TO BE PUT TO SLEEP DECEMBER 25TH 2015 -- THE SUSPECT APPEARS TO HAVE EITHER AN AKITA OR MALAMUTE DOG. > READ MORE @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/12/rest-in-peace-missy-cat-25-dec-2015.html > IF YOU SEE THE PERSON IN THE ABOVE PHOTO AND/OR KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE PLEASE CONTACT LIK ROPER ASAP @ LIKROPER@YAHOO.COM AND/OR SUNNYVALE DPS NRO OFFICER ERIC FUJI @ efujii@sunnyvale.ca.gov AND/OR CALL 1.408.730.7142 AND/OR SUNNYVALE DPS NRO OFFICER BRIAN GANTT @ bgantt@sunnyvale.ca.gov AND/OR CALL 1.408.730.7145

REST IN PEACE MISSY CAT!

I LOVE YOU FOREVER!

UPDATE: MISSY CATS' 17 YEAR OLD SON BOO PASSED
AWAY ON THIS DAY 20 FEBRUARY 2017 @ 2:22 PM PDT

*IN LOVING MEMORY OF BOO AND MISSY CAT*

SEE ALSO: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MISTER PAPA CAT @
http://likroper.com/PAPACAT1.html
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ELIMINATE WEEDS WITH BOILING WATER!?
GO TO: 6 Homemade herbicides: Eliminate weeds without harming the Earth! @
http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/homemade-herbicide-kill-weeds-without-killing-earth.html

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT

"Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance – instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole..."

FOR INSTANCE: 2004 TSUNAMI/GAMMA RAY BURST CONNECTION?
http://lreresearch.blogspot.com/2013/03/2004-tsunamigamma-ray-burst-connection.html

Note: Quantum Entanglement is essentially simultaneous remote occurrence; and/or remote elementary particles exchanging characteristics -- a situation which can occur on both the microcosmic and macrocosmic scale -- and regardless of distance. It is the literal "theory of everything" that can hypothetically occur divergently over a distance of lights years; to the minute space that separates microcosmic elementary particles -- and everywhere in between. > FOR INSTANCE: 2004 TSUNAMI/GAMMA RAY BURST CONNECTION? @ http://lreresearch.blogspot.com/2013/03/2004-tsunamigamma-ray-burst-connection.html + GO TO: QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT @ http://lreresearch.blogspot.com/2017/01/quantum-entanglement.html

FULL CIRCLE FARM / 2 DECEMBER 2016

FULL CIRCLE FARM IN SUNNYVALE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS! THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED! GO TO: http://fullcirclesunnyvale.org/get-involved/ + SEE ALSO: URBAN AGRICULTURE CAN'T FEED US; BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S A BAD IDEA @ http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/05/10/urban-agriculture?cmpid=foodinc-fb

THIS IS FARM COUNTRY!

TELL THE CITY OF SUNNYVALE TO PROTECT BUTCHER'S CORNER -- FREMONT AVENUE AND WOLFE ROAD @ EL CAMINO REAL! > GO TO: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/713/072/509/tell-the-city-of-sunnyvale-to-protect-butchers-corner/ + EMAIL THE SUNNYVALE CITY COUNCIL @ council@sunnyvale.ca.gov

SINCE THE BUTCHER FAMILY PROPERTY LIES ALONG THE HISTORIC EL CAMINO REAL ROUTE; IT SHOULD THEREFORE BE PROTECTED TO PAY HOMAGE NOT ONLY TO THE BUTCHER FAMILY -- BUT ALSO MIGRANT WORKERS WHO LIVED IN THE RAYNOR PARK AREA CREATED IN 1947 RIGHT AFTER WWII -- AS WELL AS SPANISH MISSIONARIES WHO PLANTED MUSTARD WEED ALONG THE EL CAMINO ROUTE SO LONG AGO

YAAAAAH! OPOSSUMS RULE! GO TO: Opossum Society of the United States @
http://opossumsocietyus.org/faq-opossum/

NOTE: SHORTLY AFTER POSTING THIS SEGMENT;
ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD POSSUMS GOT RUN
OVER ON DUNFORD WAY -- SO PLEASE DRIVE
CAREFULLY AND SLOW DOWN WHEN DRIVING
THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- THANX!

'CANADA GOOSE' TRACKS @
THE PETERSON TRACK

ANCIENT DINOSAUR TRACKS AT THE PETERSON FIELD? YES AND NO; THE ABOVE PHOTO SHOWS
THE TRACKS OF CANADA GEESE ON THE PETERSON TRACK; AND ANCIENT DINOSAUR TRACKS IN
THE PHOTO BELOW -- BUT! MANY AVIAN LIFE FORMS EVOLVED FROM ANCIENT DINOSAURS!?!
GO TO: BIRDS: THE LATE EVOLUTION OF DINOSAURS @ http://www.nhm.org/site/research-collections/dinosaur-institute/dinosaurs/birds-late-evolution-dinosaurs

ANCIENT DINOSAUR TRACKS

BIRDLAND 'DINOSAUR' NEIGHBORS (CANADA GEESE)

SEE ALSO: CANADA GEESE @ THE MARINA PLAYA APARTMENTS IN SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA @ http://addendumblog2.blogspot.com/2017/03/canada-geese-marina-playa-apartments-in.html

GHOST DOG? One night a few years ago while jogging on the Peterson track right about where I took the above photo; I looked over towards the baseball diamond and saw what appeared to be a white colored 'ghost dog' running from the baseball diamond towards the nature area; where it suddenly disappeared. It was a large long-legged dog; perhaps a Doberman or a Greyhound. My intuition tells me this 'ghost dog' used to be brought out to run on the Peterson field by its' owner; or perhaps a dog who used to live on the farm the Peterson property eventually replaced.