This character was eating the remains of a road kill possum right in front of the house. There are still plenty of Buzzards, crows, hawks and eagles. Just no songbirds.
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?
(They figured in the Hiss case.)
This time of year I usually see murmurations of blackbirds that fill the sky on my commute to work. I saw one piddly flock this morning. I even made a note of the lack of birds. Odd.
This character was eating the remains of a road kill possum right in front of the house. There are still plenty of Buzzards, crows, hawks and eagles. Just no songbirds.
Birds? I hav...***beeeellllch!!!!*** haven't seen any birds!
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
I’m in Alabama 160 miles due North of Panama City. Plenty of birds on my land.
Lot’s of Cardinals, and the males already fighting, plenty of Mockingbirds still around, lots of different woodpeckers, nuthatches and Yellowhammers laughing away.
Plenty of Towhees scattering dried leaves and sounding like a heard of elephants in the woods.
I’ve got a ton of crows flying around, a few hawks, and plenty of buzzards looking for dead things.
Very close to the Mississippi here in Il. Bald eagles all over the place. The feral cats are the prey here.
And, yes, the traitor Alger Hiss was brought down in court by a trap set up by the prothonotary warbler.
It's a great historical story. I urge all FReepers to google it.
Prothonotary Warbler 1
American Traitors 0
LOL. Apparently I'm dyslexic.
5.56mm
I’m sure this can be tied to global warming somehow.
Oh, wow. Love that cat’s eyes.
I had a bird fly into my bedroom window this morning. It was stunned and flew away.
I would have been upset if it had been hurt.
Earth’s magnetic field is shifting. :)
We have quite a few crows around the place where I work. They are some funny characters.
A friend of mine had a family move away next door (suburbs)and they left their cats. For two or three years they kept muliplying and running around the neighborhood.
One morning he found a pile of cat fur in his yard. That night he saw a coyote. He said it was amazing. Within a few more days he didn’t notice anymore cats!
I once was driving through my suburban neighborhood in the pre-dawn hours and a coyote ran across the road in front of me. A huge cat hanging from its mouth. I had to chuckle at the image of the mighty cat, king of the neighborhood stalking a song-bird or baby bunny. Then - SNAP!
Actually they do......Their populations fluctuate over time from normal to vast excessive numbers which I have witnessed here in S. E. Michigan. Fortunately nature has it's own cure for the coon population via a naturally occurring virus called "canine distemper".
Years ago I witnessed such an outbreak that saw at least a half dozen raccoons wandering listlessly around a local golf course in the middle of the day.
When you have a growing population of subdivisions that is taking over natural habitat, the vermin such as the coons, skunks and opossum will flourish and in the rural farmland areas where game birds such as pheasant were common, their eggs will become a primary source of food for these vermin...........
I knew that might be the case but there are a surprising number of people who call it Elgin AFB. I suspect they think Eglin is a misprint.
They sure make it easy for mom and dad to find their mouths.
Is that a mouse tail hanging out of its mouth?
They are all up here in metro Atlanta especially the Starlings.
But because of that, we have plenty of wild birds. Nice.
That's what I was referring to........sorry i wasn't clear about it
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