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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Slim
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Ty Gwyn
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Slim
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Ty Gwyn
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Mistress Rose
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6533 Location: New England (In the US of A)
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 19 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Ty Gwyn wrote: |
I didn't realise Moose were in New England,and the Black Bear I presume, |
Yes, moose population is here, and their silhouette is on lots of tourist souvenirs, but there are some concerns that climate change is allowing damaging populations of winter ticks to build up and lessen their numbers. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181017080814.htm
Yep, only black bear here, no brown bear - so walking in the woods is pretty safe, though there are very rare mountain lion sightings.
Maybe ten years back a 19 year old woman was killed by coyotes just over the border in Canada - also incredibly rare (the death, not coyotes generally - they're all over the place). The coyotes here have a strong proportion of their genetic makeup from wolf interbreeding, so they look like small wolves, not like the "mangy big fox" look of the western coyotes. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45381 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 19 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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the very young sammison,we have not been properly introduced as yet so i do not know their name, who was gleaning under the seed feeder a few mins ago is very cute.
no rat sign for a while , traps stood down(see recolonization by sammison clan), i hope things continue to improve.
anecdote rather than data but it seems there are more sparrows than at this time of year previously.
that might be down to a stable feed supply bringing more here or it might be there are more and previously the all turned up when food was available but there were less of them
afaik this crew think of here as their primary forage territory, most of them ever since they fledged.
they accept me as part of the landscape even if i am pottering or looking or chatting or pointing a 400mm lens at them while cursing focus confusing leaves (i think i have that sorted now i know how to choose the correct focus modes)
i have decided to do a year from jan 1 for collecting data about them so i will see who starts the year and how their lives and offspring go.
from first fledge seems daft, knowing more about who survived early winter, who are pairs or not etc before the breeding season and then who are/become parents, siblings, handmaids and bigamists might be easier to document(might )
colour coding them all would be great but rather intrusive:lol: so my nest bit of the learning curve is to try to tell them apart from snaps etc. some of them i think i know by name and some i know by family/clutch
just to confuse matters i think there might be some crossover from more than one nest.
unless i am mistaken the 2 dark beak youngsters had 2 pale beak siblings this year or one pair adopted a couple of fledglings to join their pale beak 2.
it is that sort of thing i want to try to learn more about, the helper handmaids(of both genders)aspect is interesting as well.
forgo being rejected as an untested partner and by showing what you can do rather than how you look/smell or whatever sparrows find attractive "pull" later. it sort of makes sense for some to pair based on performance rather than promise. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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dpack
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6533 Location: New England (In the US of A)
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dpack
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