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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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dpack
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Jam Lady
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dpack
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2511 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Mon May 27, 24 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Appreciate your reply dpack. We've heard birds fly into windows before, but this was a THWAK. Hawk must have body slammed the dove into the glass.
Interestingly, since then the two pairs of mourning doves that regularly come to peck at seed on the ground below the feeders have not been around.
We have red tail hawks, several species of owls, bald eagles, black vultures etc. Hawks and vultures, drifting through the sky, are the most observed. Vultures on the ground cleaning up roadkill too.
Here's a rather poor image from several years ago, of a Cooper's hawk plucking and eating a downy woodpecker, just outside the kitchen.
We have a diversity of wildlife. This year seems especially well endowed. There's the evening rabbit who also shows up in daytime, a raccoon has been around several times in the evening, once an opossum, chipmunks, and of course the deer. |
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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dpack
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8687 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8687 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45802 Location: yes
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Posted: Thu May 30, 24 5:37 am Post subject: |
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morning in bird town was fun, lots of "feed me, feed me" cheeping
some of it is mobile
afaik there are between 6 and 8 sparrow nest in the local flock
bigamy? its bigamay two
sparrow social dynamics are practical, a flock hand maid or a bigamist that can provide for two nests increases the flock's genetic legacy
the daws are ace fun, if a little expensive, i am trying not to think about a sack of mealworms, i could get decent person meat for a similar price
re mealworms, £5 a kilo is good, but it needs to be 10 kg in one go
at the rate the smalls and daws are eating them, it might last til late summer
if they are well stored, they will easily still be "use before"
a tiny bag at a time is daft money if you need to be consistent in a "bait"regime for a largish mixed flock
sammison news is good, doing mouse stuff |
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dpack
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