Posted on 09/19/2019 7:58:43 PM PDT by Java4Jay
Unfortunately the few birds remaining still manage to poop on my windshield three times a week.
Agreed. I was just going to say they didn’t visit my yard. And we have an ornamental pond they love to drink and bathe in.
That video was incredibly sad.
I hate those ugly windmills, they have them atop many of the beautiful hills going up into the Poconos now, and they just look awful. And out of a dozen or so, maybe one is turning at any sort of speed most of the time. Solar farms are hideous too, taking up acres and acres in some places — just outside of Boston there are quite a few of these visual blights.
Like that scary Hitchcock movie “The Birds?”
House Sparrows are invasive and growing in numbers. They are also a danger to cavity nest builders such as chickadees.
I've seen a growing number of grackles which are also a danger to song bird nest builders in that they will eat the eggs and chicks.
I'm doing my best to protect the song birds by shooting the sparrows and grackles every chance I get.
And don't get me started on starlings....
I think all these birds are on my place. The finch at my place can eat a gallon of sunflower seeds a day. Have finch, sparrows, swallows and thrush.
I also have a good number of birds of prey. 3-4 different hawk species and a few American Eagles. I have 5 acres of mowed lawn teeming with field mice. Nothing like watching those birds hunt.
This is simply more Fake News™.
LOL!
Saw that after I posted.
Tellem!
Tellem what you toldem!
Tellem again!
I had two pair of chickadees nest in the bird house on the side of my house. When the babies of the first pair fledged, the second pair took over the house and had babies.........
Human population up by 40% with corresponding habitat loss.
Nearly all the increase from immigration.
Open the borders.
Boy, I'll say! Here in S.E. Michigan I haven't seen so many monarchs as I have this fall.......all heading S.W
They are all in New Jersey. LOL
That’s interesting. I had a similar occurance
We have a red ceramic apple bird house suspended from a tree limb. It has been there for yers, un occupied. Last year the Chickadees nested in it.
This year the wrens who have always lived here nested there, then the Chickadees and then the wrens again.
This is yet another examlpe of how wild life has adapted to living with humans.
A lot of birds prey on other birds. In the areas where I’ve lived, we’ve lost far more baby birds to birds - crows, particularly - than ever to cats.
You need to come to our house then. We have all the Mourning Doves you’d care to view. All day, all year. Hubby feeds them and we have for over 20 years. Same with the Hummers. We have more hummers in the winter, when they’re supposed to migrate, than we do in the summer.
I had a piebald-headed (feathers are white, not colored) Robin hanging around all spring and summer. He was easy to spot, and his favorite perch was my cucumber trellis.
Decade after decade of widespread habitat destruction.
So glad to hear that! We’ve added TONS of Milkweed all over the place and Beau is careful not to mow it down in the cow pasture, as well.
I had a lot of Monarch caterpillars around this year - a very good thing! :)
Funny you mention the movie “The Birds.” My son and I drove to the coast yesterday for some hiking with our dog. Pescadero, CA was full of blackbirds yesterday. They are incredibly noisy in flocks. As we were walking along the streets of the town, I told my son “this is like the Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds.’”
The trend should reverse now we’ve had fewer weddings and fewer grains of rice for Tweety to choke on
Also, this is natural selection at its finest- at one point we were inundated by starlings and other imported birds
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