Birds in the Garden

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Comment by Kimberly White 4 hours ago

Great pic Elizabeth! Good thing I don't have a bird feeder outside my window. I would have a hard time keeping focused on work.

Comment by ELIZABETH KNIGHT 9 hours ago

Comment by ELIZABETH KNIGHT 9 hours ago

A beautiful little pine warbler on the suet outside my office window..I do more bird watching than work but I'm fortunant that way!!

Comment by Sheri Cline on January 5, 2010 at 10:24am

I live on a small Island. The unbalanced problems we suffer here are caused by the "human hand". People move on and people come here from the metro areas and dump their cats or let their cats go outside, cats go after the quail, our quail populations have been severely depleted. More cats, more coyote's (larger litters because of the abundance of cats) and when the coyote cleans out the cats for a while, they get hungry and attack the dogs and now small children. I saw a coyote female take down a standard size Sheltie collie and drag it to her den to feed her pups. Once, the coyote's main diet was rat, mice and rabbits. We have plant invasion, English Ivy, Knot Weed, and kudzu, once inside house plants. Put out bird feeders, lure the pretty birds for your enjoyment and upset the balance of their cycle of life. Falcons (once quail eaters) no longer go after the mice, rats and rabbits & quail, because they find it easier to hit a bird at the feeder. Coyote and large birds of prey are now unbalanced and the rats, mice and rabbits are breeding out of control. We've had to do "rabbit round-ups" because they are eating areas to the dirt and causing barren land and on an island that is massive erosion. This has happened on some of the other islands also. I live on an island, but then again, when you look at our planet from space, it's just an island.

Does anyone have any idea how to recycle a years worth of bubble gum?

Just kidding!

Comment by Sharon Rose NW Ohio 5B on January 5, 2010 at 8:25am

So nice getting caught up on this board! Although I enjoyed a week's vacation to SE Florida, and returned to -1F on the 3rd. Beautiful though! :-)
Sherri: have really enjoyed your posts, and I might have to share the tased cat.
Our DNR has the falcon cams too...love all the great pictures and hate to agree with the starlings= rats w/ wings sentiment. :-/

Comment by Sheri Cline on January 5, 2010 at 6:32am

Peragine Falcons are one of my favorite subjects for doing watercolors. The city of Seattle has been working on a project to re-establish the P. falcons in the city for the last 20 years. Cameras are monunted at all nest sites and we can go one line 24/7 to watch them.They feed on the pigeons, birds that are "lured" by the humans to outside feeders or fed on the streets and the pigeon population has become unbalanced, they in turn raise offspring dependent on the "human feeder".

Comment by Berta Newton on January 4, 2010 at 10:54pm

Donald- nice pict of a falcon (?). Starlings+ rats with wings, heard them called that years ago. We've got them here, too.

Comment by Bonnie Long/zn5/Wi. on January 4, 2010 at 6:46pm

woo he's a beauty but they eat small birds, ours come around alot and someone is always gone when he leaves usually a sparrow so sad but life I guess

Comment by Donald Dunn on January 4, 2010 at 6:04pm

I took this picture this morning . I always know when there is a large bird in the yard because my cat curls his lip and makes that funny noise. He does not do that with the small birds.

Comment by Donald Dunn on January 4, 2010 at 6:02pm

Rich
I'll trade you one Re Wing black bird or two Starlings for a Painted Bunting. I'll have them air mailed to you.

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