Squirrels kill a lot of birds. They raid the nests, eating eggs and nestlings and the new fledges.
Rats- and if you leave birdseed in your feeders at night you will have rats, lots of them- kill songbirds, eating a little, though rarely the entire thing. A full feeder will often host upwards of 60 rats per night in FL.
‘Possums kill a huge number of birds, grabbing them off the perch at night; their urine also carries a pathogen that makes birds ill and can kill them.
Skunks are opportunistic bird killers, and for some reason they like to eat just the head. The cats usually eat the bods and leave the heads.
Coons will eat anything, killing anything up to the size of a goose and carrying it off. I’ve lost turkeys to these varmints.
Not to mention weasels, mink, bobcat, fox and coyote, though at least the bobcat, fox & coyote will catch your cats.
Cooper’s hawks and sharpies specialize in songbird killing; I have a a fit with these hawks every year about this time as they try to strike my aviaries. The red shouldered hawks are snake eaters and are never a problem, in fact when they are around they run off the redtails and the bird killing hawks.
Thank you for the detailed but useless nature lesson.
I do not live in Florida but I do have a 24/7 CC/DVR security system watching all 4 points of the property, color by day and infrared by night.
It’s stinking cats slaughtering everything.
I’ve seen them on the recordings.
I case you missed it in my other post, most of our mammalian predators have died of rabies, except for possums that are mostly immune to the virus due to their too-low body temperature.
The cats have also used my yard as their personal toilet, infecting my yard with worms.
I spend a small fortune every month giving the dogs Interceptor tablets to combat the disgusting things.