Yo Tee, a new show............

[brooks]

.............just for you. Sunday night on NGC......Living Below Zeroit's a reality show about people who live in northern areas. I think it about Alaska and living above/in the Arctic circle. ;D ;D

[Bara]

Hey! I'm farther north than Tee!

[brooks]

Then you should watch it too
.

[Bara]

OK.

[Big Tee©]

I probably won't watch, it's likely gonna interfere with Heartbeat and Midsomer Murders. Cannot miss those!!!LOL Besides, I had enough of that crap already this year.

[Bara]

I'll watch it, Brooks. Tee can have my share of Heartbeat ... When I lived through the 50's and 60's, everything was brighter and more colourful ...

[brooks]

I want to watch it and the one just before it which is a new series on wild life in America.

[Big Tee©]

I checked ahead in the NatGeo listings and it isn't there, at least that I noticed. Maybe I didn't check at the right times.......hard telling because I kinda get b**ched up when I try to look ahead - usually hit the wrong button and wonder why my channel guide only shows ppv channels.

[brooks]

Oh Tee hope you see this today early, I made an error !!!!!!! The wild life in America is on Discovery channel. Sorry. Hope you get to see it.

[Big Tee©]

I saw that on the channel guide........and the early show is going to interfere with cat and horse feeding time and the later showing is going to interfere with Waking the Dead. It will be on tomorrow on regular Discovery and at least once on another Discovery subsidiary. Don't need to see snow, still some in people's trees

[Big Tee©]

Well. I did end up watching it since Waking the Dead is getting into reruns, at least for me.

I don't know what to make of the series since the second episode on the plains was pretty full of crap. There are no truly wild bison in Alberta - the ones they showed were at Wood Buffalo National Park and at least one shot was at Grasslands Park here in Sask. The dead calf stuff was at Yellowstone because both parks feed the bison during the winter - Wood Buffalo feeding ground is right beside the Yellowhead Highway, not sure where the feeding ground is in Grasslands though AND the North Saskatchewan River doesn't run in winter, it freezes solid. When they talked about outlaws hiding, they showed the right badlands but didn't say where it was - those badlands are 60 miles or so south west of me, but the large badlands were in SD.

I did like seeing the antelope though, since the rats with antlers and moose (who belong up north) have driven them out of here. They are so neat, and will let you walk almost up to them. If you are non-threatening, they will just carry on with what they are doing and allow you to watch if you are quiet. Used to herd them out of the yard before the moose came. The 'tame' herds will follow. and keep up with highway traffic just for the run and stay in their fences (think parks again) even if they can do a standing jump over 8' fences. Unlike cervids, they are smart enough to know which side their proverbial bread is buttered on and stay in an enclosure if feed is certain; both parks and ranchers feed them in winter as parks want to keep them and ranchers like them since they are not destructive.

Didnt care for the snow geese - they are too noisy and nothing new to me AND they upset the cats with the shrieking. Those who are out of snow goose territory now know the racket I live with twice a year. I cheered for the eagles and hawks when the stupid things landed on ice. They also never mentioned that some of the snow geese were Ross' geese and some Brandt's nor did they mention that all those geese are killing the northern tundra by eating everything in sight. Some years, there is no limit hunting on the foul creatures (or is that fowl?) because of the destruction they leave in their wake. Used to be a time when the southern hunters were limited to 20 birds on their trip, now they can take pretty near 20 per hunting day back across the border and resident hunters have no limit on numbers. What they showed on the ice, you see here in almost every farm field spring and fall and that is for a few weeks and changing residents.

They also didnt mention our newest nuisance animal on the northern plains - beavers. I'm pretty sure they are now building on the river here - the water is higher and in a different area than normal this spring. Someone is going to have to blast a dam downstream again.

[Big Tee©]

I should have said the series about the north wasn't on here but two of the North America wildlife ones were

[brooks]

Well I was so disappointed I changed the channel. I am tired of watch animals killing one another.

[ZenRider]

The video from nature shows don't bother me much, it's nature. The narratives and commentaries sometimes make me a bit.

Hahaha, show busted by Big Tee! I'll take your snow geese and trade you the neighbor's chihuahua, a chihuahua terrier mix and a Jack Russellish dog.

As for the violent shows and movies, I'm not sure if it reflects our society or influences it. Perhaps a combination of both?

[Big Tee©]

Zen, I just cannot stand when the narrators spew pure unadulterated intact male cow poop. It's pretty hard not to say anything when you recognise the location because you have passed by it so often or live close to it; I have seen the Wood Buffalo bison eating from lovely round bales one dry summer when I had to go past a few times and saw one winter feeding and the unmistakable remains of an open feed lot are plain for all to see.

No, I will reluctantly take the geese since it isnt every day, just a few weeks