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Old Apr 24, 2021, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BethRags View Post


I love the sounds of all the birds around here. I so wish I could name them all. My mother-in-law used to give tours at a local university arboretum; she knew all about the birds. It was fascinating!

Thank you for the pics! The cemetery is amazing, isn't it.
I'm fairly knowledgeable about New Jersey birds, but not at all about Czech ones. I imagine the arboretum had some beauties in it. Was that in CA or NY (or other place)? I know CA has oodles of wonderful birdies.

Czech Republic has some attractive birds, but the ones I see near my house are all quite plain-looking. Plus, they piss us off that they refuse to eat the seed from our bird feeder. I tell my husband that they dislike it because it is too modern-looking (like a Frank Lloyd Wright house). Maybe they only go to places that look like European cottages . There are a few birds in CZ that I'm familiar with, but the doves make a slightly different cooing noise than the ones in New Jersey. Strange. Well, they speak a slightly different language here.

We could only view part of the cemetery today because of covid closings. In any case, what we saw was amazing and it is in a beautiful, quiet hilly area. One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries, outside of Israel, is in Prague. It's a major "must see" for anyone, but particularly people of Jewish heritage (The Wikipedia entry on it is interesting: Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague - Wikipedia).
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*Beth*, Anonymous41462, Anonymous45023, Nammu, Sunflower123, ~Christina
Thanks for this!
*Beth*, ~Christina