Posted on 09/19/2019 7:58:43 PM PDT by Java4Jay
From grasslands to seashores to forests and backyards, birds are disappearing at an alarming rate in the United States and Canada, with a 29% population drop since 1970 and a net loss of about 2.9 billion birds, scientists said on Thursday.
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AND, tear down the Solar Farms!
Don’t forget the “flaming birds” in Solar Farms.
Yep, people are to blame. The people that pass laws against us culling the feral cat population, that is. Kill the cats and the birds will return. And the rabbits. And the squirrels. A lil’ ol’ 22 rimfire will do just fine.
You are right about the opossums and raccoons. The raccoons in particular are smart, and the big ones are strong too. I had to really “re-fortify” our chicken house and run, plus go to war with the buggers: I got a few of those “dog-proof” raccoon traps. They also turned out to work well on opossums.
Still, we have lots of good “cover” around, and there are plenty of birds singing here in the mornings to wake us up!
Some sort of bird has also been dining on our tomatoes...
https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/save-millions-of-birds-window-alert-invisible-ultraviolet-decals-warn-birds-about-deadly-windows.html
“Tell me about. Sounds like a flock of frickin’ pterodactyls out in the pasture every morning.”
LOL! Goonie birds, AKA Sandhill Cranes. Them damn things make quite the racket.
Illegals gotta eat. Taste like chicken.
Less birds more insects. Where is the increase in insects?
As it happens, late night tinfoil radio has a guest pushing fears of 5g tonight and by sheer coincidence one of his lines is somewhere 5g cell tech caused hundreds of birds to drop dead.
Just another thing to blame on globull warming.
The tomatoes might be getting eaten by tomato or tobacco hornworms- they will scoop out your tomatoes before bothering with the leaves, looks like a squirrel or groundhog took a few bites but it’s a caterpillar of a moth that flies in the evenings and loves 4 O’Clocks. The caterpillars are very hard to spot even though they grow to an impressive size. Check your plants closely morning and evening for a big fat green caterpillar with white slashes on its sides.
Sometimes you will find a big hornworm with what looks like white eggs sticking out of it... leave those alone, they will never mature to reproduce because the white eggs are those of a parasitic wasp...and you’ll want lots of those wasps if you like tomatoes.
That’s why they NEVER mention anything good happening. When they talk about climate change they always say the change is worse for everything, as if nothing can possibly benefit.
See my reply #88. I didn't forget!
I put bird nets on my strawberries and my harvest went up exponentially...had no idea how much was being snitched up until then. I did leave a patch for the robins but they’d have to eat the whole berry for a change rather than just eating the red parts when they are half ripe because they had unlimited access. Of course, a very old box turtle moved in under the net and ate his share, but he ate slugs too. You might want to try a net and see.
Piasa, I believe you are correct about raptors. Here in the middle of Manhattan, we have gained a substantial population of red-tailed hawks and peregrine falcons over the last 20 - 30 years. Despite that, we still have a lot of house sparrows in every bit of shrubbery, along with warblers, robins, house finches, and the occasional cardinal or blue jay in the parks - plus endless pigeons everywhere!
I netted every tree we have that currently bears fruit. The squirrels chewed through the nets and the bugs followed. We have two hanging strawberry baskets, and I gave up on them. They’re within ten feet of a window that one of our cats resides in full-time, and the birds just thumb their beaks at her. She can’t be bothered to even stretch as the birds peck at the berries; she just takes a nap. Some predator she is. I’ll need to build a geo-dome over the property before I get any relief.
I’ve noted this in my own backyard.....I used to be able to get an oriole once in a while....even my yellow finches are not as plentiful....
I've seen an indigo bunting before....last place was in NYS...decades ago....would love to see another....
I used to be able to see cedar waxwings but nothing for years....there were stellar jays on our property when we first built, but not one of them for 25yrs (curiously,my son has them in is backyard in Lynnwood wa...)
I really think the birds are down.....cats kill many birds....but I think it could be the insecticides etc...
a couple of yrs ago I saw a squirrel go into my bluebird house and later I saw a dead bluebird on the ground.....grrr.......
Damn woodpeckers keep eating all my grapes.
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