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Q: What’s with the rooster(s) which greet the dawn along Gulfshore Boulevard North around 4th and 5th avenues? (I’ve seen one and heard them when biking by.) Must be a pretty classy breed!
- Dave Pfaff, Naples
A: It’s just one rooster with one loud cock-a-doodle-doo. The yellow and black bird showed up months ago in that Old Naples area and appears to have put down roots, or a roost anyway.
“He has become the neighborhood rooster,” said Naples City Councilman John Sorey, who has lived in that area of Gulf Shore Boulevard for more than 15 years. “We don’t have any idea where he came from or how he got there. He just kind of showed up one day.”
Sorey said the rooster has good genes and a good set of lungs. He said the bird sits on a metal fence near Fourth Avenue North and Gulfshore Boulevard and announces the day.
“He sits up on that fence and crows his little heart out every morning from daylight until he gets tired of crowing, which is usually an hour or two,” Sorey said. “He loves to crow. He crows and crows and crows.”
The fence’s owner, a resident of the home on the corner of Third Avenue North and Gulfshore who prefers to remain unidentified, admits the rooster kind of adopted them because they have two bird feeders, but she said the bird doesn’t belong to them.
“He just goes around the neighborhood like he lives here,” she said. “Which is fine with us.”
Friends twice tried to catch the rooster to relocate him to a farm in Golden Gate Estates, but he was able to get away. The Humane Society also didn’t have any luck trapping him. The idea is to relocate him for his own safety because he frequently crosses Gulfshore Boulevard.
“We are afraid he’s going to get run over,” the woman said. “He crosses the street every day.”
Please don’t ask why the rooster crosses the road.
Q: When the rain measure is reported, what is that measurement? It seems we could get inches, then it shows only a trace or just the opposite. Is it from one place? If so, shouldn’t it be taken from multiple places?
- Glenn Wozniak, Naples
A: The daily “Weather Report” rainfall data on the back page of the B section of the Daily News is in inches, measured by the National Weather Service at Naples Municipal Airport, the official location of record for the city’s weather, according to Patrick Weeden, customer service manager for Newspaper Services Weather Central Inc.
Weeden said the rainfall could be reported from several different locations, but for comparison purposes, those locations should be consistent.
“We certainly should report from the same place every day,” he said.
Keep in mind that the rainfall figure published is from rain that fell in the 24-hour period ending at 5 p.m. the previous day. So, obviously, any rain that fell the previous evening or overnight would not be reflected until the next day.
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Tim Aten is chief online editor of the Daily News. E-mail questions with your name and city of residence to intheknow@naplesnews.com.
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Be extra careful with those wild roosters. They may appear docile and laid back but once you get them going they get excited and like to spit at you!!!!
#1 Posted by Jadip811 on July 2, 2008 at 5:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
i think we should have hunters mafia pull rank on the naples p.d. and kill the rooster.....is it not true that farm animals are not allowed in city.
#2 Posted by thethrob on July 2, 2008 at 8:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I like stories about free range chickens! Wet foot or Dry foot?
If it doesn't make it across the road some day then scoop it up and get it to Fifth Avenue and they can make up a fine pot of Roadkill Stew for the Council!
#3 Posted by chickendog on July 2, 2008 at 8:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I wander if the rooster is a run a way from the flock of chickens that have lived in the River Park area for decades?
Well the good folks on GSBN needed a little excitement in their lives anyway.
#4 Posted by swfl_ff on July 2, 2008 at 10:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think its awsome!! Naples needs a little more "country" in the mix... yeehaw! lol
#5 Posted by southernfilly on July 2, 2008 at 2:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Naples is a bird sanctuary. Farm animal or not it is protected. Hopefully Audubon will step up and help restore this species in its former habitat.
#6 Posted by swampbuggy on July 2, 2008 at 4:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well we have ducks all over Naples. So a rooster should not be a problem. Except for the noise bothering some of Naple's elite delicate ears.
You can tell he escaped from somewhere. Good breed and his beards were cut. Meaning he was used for cockfighting. A tradition in many countries. Even if its ilegal here.
#7 Posted by ricky369 on July 2, 2008 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As the Beatles once said: LET IT BE.
#8 Posted by babsmn on July 5, 2008 at 6:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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