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| Searles O'Dubhain |
 Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:01 am |
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"Searles O'Dubhain" <odubhain@comcast.net> wrote in message
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The thought has crossed my mind more than once at times like these
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interfering with strictly physical survival of the fittest is an
appropriate action.
I mean to say *if* these were appropriate actions and what could be
their consequences.
Searles |
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| DarcyLeg |
| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:43 am |
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Quote: OK, so I'm supporting the birds, and they're dependent upon me to a certain
extent - but I'm also building up other food sources, by doing things like
attracting insects. Winter however it's a bit hard round here for birds, so
I make sure that there's plenty of food out.
Kevin
I view it as a re-balancing! Here in the SE so much has been built on or
subject to industrial farming practices that the various populations have
declined. Cat ownership and the increase of Magpie population (due to the
large amount of road kill) has been another factor.
I regard putting food out as going a little way to help support them. It's not
much and as the report I've just posted shows, maybe un-clean bird tables has
been responsible for spreading disease!
I don't use hanging baskets but I shall be ensuring their cleanliness from now
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Cheers, Dave. |
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| Elaine Stutt |
| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:22 am |
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DarcyLeg (darcyleg@aol.com) writes:
Quote: OK, so I'm supporting the birds, and they're dependent upon me to a certain
extent - but I'm also building up other food sources, by doing things like
attracting insects. Winter however it's a bit hard round here for birds, so
I make sure that there's plenty of food out.
Kevin
I view it as a re-balancing! Here in the SE so much has been built on or
subject to industrial farming practices that the various populations have
declined. Cat ownership and the increase of Magpie population (due to the
large amount of road kill) has been another factor.
I regard putting food out as going a little way to help support them. It's not
much and as the report I've just posted shows, maybe un-clean bird tables has
been responsible for spreading disease!
I don't use hanging baskets but I shall be ensuring their cleanliness from now
on.
Cheers, Dave.
Thanks for the report link, gory pictures but thorough. I'd heard of
bird mites being spread at feeding stations out east but nothing here.
I hadn't heard of the salmonella. I asked a local friend who's a birder
and she said, there's been a few reports but nothing much. I'll be more
careful about the cleaning.
We've had some winter migrants in from farther north. A flock of
little Redpolls showed up at the feeder. They're small and cute.
Then on some of the bigger trees was a flock of Bohemian Waxwings.
They're quite a attractive but I haven't seen one up close this year.
They're usually in big flocks and up where I can't see them well.
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| DarcyLeg |
| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:37 am |
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Quote: Thanks for the report link, gory pictures but thorough. I'd heard of
bird mites being spread at feeding stations out east but nothing here.
I hadn't heard of the salmonella. I asked a local friend who's a birder
and she said, there's been a few reports but nothing much. I'll be more
careful about the cleaning.
Me too I have been ensuring that all old food is cleaned away.
Sorry about the delay responding things have got a bit hectic here over the
past week. It's time for the great wind to blow this leaf to another mulching
ground. So we've been house hunting again hopefully for something more
permanent.
Quote: We've had some winter migrants in from farther north. A flock of
little Redpolls showed up at the feeder. They're small and cute.
Then on some of the bigger trees was a flock of Bohemian Waxwings.
They're quite a attractive but I haven't seen one up close this year.
They're usually in big flocks and up where I can't see them well.
Elaine
Sounds fab I love the names - Bohemian Waxwings conjures up images of a bunch
of long-feathered romantic birds lazing around the trees discussing Bauhaus
architecture.
Cheers, Dave. |
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