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Vanity - where are the birds??
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Posted on 12/16/2014 2:52:17 PM PST by saminfl

I live in the Florida panhandle. I have a couple of bird feeders in my yard and I keep them filled. For the last few weeks, I haven't had to add any food. It dawned on me that there are no birds in my yard anymore. I used to have many cardinals along with jays, doves, woodpeckers and all the little ones I am not smart enough to identify.

I thought it was just me, but I had dinner with two of my neighbors the other night and they brought up the subject asking where the birds have gone.

Have any Freepers noticed their birds are missing?


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KEYWORDS: birds; cardinals; jays
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101 posted on 12/16/2014 5:29:13 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Yardstick
We have quite a few crows around the place where I work. They are some funny characters.

Yeah, we have them in Alexandria, VA.


102 posted on 12/16/2014 5:33:17 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Don W
By your bird list, I can tell you're a westerner.

My hunch is that your unidentified striped sparrow is a white-crowned sparrow.

This time of year, hundreds of thousands of them overwinter throughout the western states.

103 posted on 12/16/2014 5:49:59 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: saminfl

The City of Key West claims to have 40,000 outdoor cats—a major destination for migrating songbirds! In the Florida Keys, I visit a friend who has a “outdoor” cat; invariably, the cat kills a bird each time I visit. One day, her cat presented us with a warm, but dead, Cardinal. An hour later, my friend and I were watching a lizard that was dining on fire ants. “Remarkable”, we thought—then her cat came over and killed it, too! :(


104 posted on 12/16/2014 6:12:01 PM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: Flycatcher
After some research, it appears that I had a visit from a small flock of Pine Siskins (carduelus pinus)!

They were finches, not sparrows.

I have heard that a spotted towhee and varied thrush have been spotted in the area, so I eagerly await their appearance at my feeder.

105 posted on 12/16/2014 8:08:22 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods burn. When whites riot, nations and CONTINENTS burn))
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To: Don W
Lucky you. You have some classic Pacific Northwest birds, even though some of them travel south for awhile in winter.

Just saw some varied thrushes in Mendocino County (Calif) last week while on vacation. What a great yard bird!

And glad you solved your bird mystery.

106 posted on 12/16/2014 8:17:17 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: saminfl

Seem to be about the same number here in south Jersey, although it usually takes them awhile to come back to the feeder as the weather turns colder in the late fall....


107 posted on 12/16/2014 8:55:53 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: yarddog

I’ve got lots of rattlesnakes and moccasins and plenty of songbirds too.


108 posted on 01/17/2015 8:30:25 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: yarddog

I’ve got lots of rattlesnakes and moccasins and plenty of songbirds too.

The worst birdkillers are rats- snakes probably kill way more rats than birds.


109 posted on 01/17/2015 8:31:08 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: saminfl

I can flip you a few birds if you need. :)


110 posted on 01/17/2015 8:32:59 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

You are offering a food source 3x a day! Plus a warm house.

Either stop feeding the bird sooooo much, really...they’ll be fine or turn the heat off in the house.


111 posted on 01/17/2015 8:35:35 AM PST by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: saminfl

Judging by the date you most likely have a coopers or sharp shin hawk visiting you on migration. I’m to your south and around the same time I had a couple of them, inexperienced ones, mobbing my aviary- boy was one surprised when he dived at a conure and I popped up instead when my birds let rip the alarms calls- I had been stooped over inside scooping feed for my birds. It’s seasonal.


112 posted on 01/17/2015 8:39:16 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

They’ve been back for the last couple of weeks.


113 posted on 01/17/2015 9:11:01 AM PST by saminfl
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