Wish blue jays leave her alone
I found the live cam for Angel last year, right after her first chick hatched. Watched all the way through to fledging.
Now I, along with many others, am eagerly awaiting this year’s brood. She and Tom have been busy getting the nest ready and she should lay her eggs soon.
She is a real beauty and an excellent momma.
Mind controlling hawk?
Red tailed hawks are the coyotes of the sky and should be shot on sight.
The bane of my hood are the crows.
They eat the eggs and young of all bird nests. I try to take them out with a pellet gun…they know me.
Last year, the crows killed the hatchlings of a Mississippi Kite nest in my tree while I was at work.
The pair left in late June when they had just arrived from their migration in May.
I do not like crows and they know it.
There is an absolute line (DMZ?) where the Blue Jays hold off the crows and it has been holding for a number of years.
Sort of like when engineers said it was impossible that bees could fly.
And I have great respect for most real engineers.
To credit “love” for the survival of this bird is a bit whimsical. I mean, love has been misdefined so much that it is now a vague word, and not at all scientific:
“Almost 2.5 million.”
Really? Who counted them?
I see them patrolling the freeways, swooping down to grab mice in the medians.
In the 1970s those same scientists would have concluded she’s just making any evolutionary adaptation for the coming ice age.
There was a white gray squirrel that lived in our neighbor hood for several years. The squirrel adapted to the existing conditions
Angel and tom should feed their fledglings Blue jays
As long as there is strong pair bonding with a male that will aggressively nest-guarding a site, the female should be okay.
There’s a herd of leucistic White-tailed deer at the former Seneca Army Depot and adjacent areas. They have done well for decades.
Angel the red-tailed hawk is leucistic, which is similar to being albino.
I think I graduated with Lou and Al.