I’ve seen a lot of wildlife changes over here. There are something like 100 lions roaming the Santa Cruz mountains. Each requires about 10 square miles of land. I think the lion populations are much higher now since hunting them was banned. Not sure why the turkey and coyote populations have soared and why they have moved into our neighborhoods.
Crows moved in here about 15 years ago. They eat the Mourning Dove eggs, so there are no more Mourning Doves here. What a lousy tradeoff! We get raucous “caw, caw, caw” with the rookeries here and no more gentle “coo, coo.”
We have mourning doves and crows.
Hopefully the environment is diverse enough to support them both.
We have so many birds. Even the magpies have a strong population.
That seems odd to me. Guess it needs to be more wooded for crows and doves to coexist. I have no shortage of mourning doves, American crows and ravens by me.
“Not sure why the turkey and coyote populations have soared and why they have moved into our neighborhoods.”
Maybe it’s all those lions in the hills!