The "dive-bombers" around here are blue Jays and Mockingbirds. I watched a Mock harassing a big Redtail Hawk with food in his claws. He would fly up and down to get away, but the Mock kept going and going and going...
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Posted on 10/09/2009 8:29:19 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
I just bought a house with a huge backyard, with lots of natural trees and vegetation. I can’t believe how many different kinds of birds are back there. And speaking of hummingbirds, they sure are courageous little critters. They routinely dive-bomb birds that would probably just assume eat them for lunch. Amazing to watch.
The "dive-bombers" around here are blue Jays and Mockingbirds. I watched a Mock harassing a big Redtail Hawk with food in his claws. He would fly up and down to get away, but the Mock kept going and going and going...
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Cool pick! For some reason my hummingbirds don’t feed from my hummingbird feeders; or if they do, they do so when I’m not looking. But we have lots of flowers growing on vines all over the place, so purhaps that’s why. I have also noticed that 9 times out of 10, if my wife is wearing bright colors while doing dishes in the kitchen window, they will hover just outside the window and look at her. They don’t pay any attention to me when I’m doing dishes, bright colors or no :o(
PS But the do pay attention when I’m out in the backyard with a hose. If I spray the water up in the air, they will hover about 10-20 feet above the water stream, and then dive bomb it. Very fun to watch :o)
OH, that is so good.
My misunderstanding. I read through it quickly.
No problem! :)
What empirical evidence does Mr. Thomas cite to support this assertion?
Brian Thomas* also has a wrong statement in the first paragraph. He states:
“Monarch butterflies have fascinated biologists for a long time. A 3,000-mile road trip in even the most comfortable car would prove daunting to many humans, but these beautiful insects can migrate that same distance every year from Canada to a specific grove of fir trees in Mexico each fall. The next generation of monarchs can then travel back to Canada in the spring.”
Wrong.
The butterflies that are born in Mexico (east of the Rockies) or in costal California (west of the Rockies) do not fly all the way back to where they summer. There is another one or two generations in-between. The ones that fly south the next winter are the grand or great grandchildren of the ones that laid the eggs down south.
I have seen the Monarchs at Pacific Gove(between Monterey and Carmel)and saw more butterflies in that one little park than I have seen in the rest of my life.
I’ve harvested the larva and fed them until they formed their chrysalis indoors, to save them from insect and bird predators and watched them emerge. We didn’t have any around here this year and the butterfly weed plants were enormous but I’ve seen several adults in the past two weeks. Their timing must’ve been off this year.
This thread has nothing to do with Barack Obama’s achievement.
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