After I began reducing the squirrel population all the warblers and orioles and various other birds came back. Squirrels eat baby birds and had largely wiped out the neighborhood summer birds....otherwise once common warblers and vireos totally gone or very rare visitors....the squirrel taste better than pheasants or ruffed grouse by the way.
However if you like them that's your thing …..I hate them as I prefer the winter birds at my feeders of which those crazy gray squirrels scare away. You can just imagine what I think about that. But if you are having fun more power to you. I am a little surprised you haven't had any of the plains snakes drop on but such being the various rattle snake species and the non venomous types which caught me by surprise given I forgot forgot there were other tupes of snakes on the plains....
The woodpecker is a red bellied wood pecker...not sure if male ot female but that's an academic western bird...still cool...the little gray white bird is a white breasted nuthatch'''very entertaining little bird...the birds on the ground I think are brown thrashers which is wicked cool...we used to have around'''they got rare over the years and that hawk looks like a female coopers' hawk..the bird hawks whose diet is often birds if they can catch them...a hawk that actually tries to catch crows but often the numbers are such that the crow sized hawk rarely catches one in a group....and if it does there is a prolonged battle but even then the crows' buddies can help it escape although not without a wound or two...I have seen three juviniles(?) attack about 30 crows once and that was quite the melee as these brazen hawks land right amongst the crows who make their displeasure known...always entertaining to see this. Never expected this scenario however...late Semptember early October there abouts...a cooper suddenly rushed at the crow apparently grabbing it and at this time I figured at least one of the hawks had lunch time to open fire on any available crows..not sure of that day as they all vacated with the other hawks in pursuit..while educational over all that area is one of the things I often complain about...big deal 300 crows in a field but one shot they all vacate.....this why I move on in a scenario like that...The other deal is an area I frequented in the past was always interrupted by a distant hawk battle-species unknown-and the crows wouldn't come to my area only calling for me to help them.!! Days like that I wait a whiles due to the distance but eventually split as it's going nowhere fast' Same with those bald eagles the crows will harass them down the river aways...and no shooting....
Have 31 oaks on my property. Squirrels are terminated as they get into everything. Even had one in my home years ago. These are the small red squirrels.
Ted
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Have 31 oaks on my property. Squirrels are terminated as they get into everything. Even had one in my home years ago. These are the small red squirrels.
Ted
That's the spirit!!!!
The red squirrel is a dedicated bird killer....more so than the gray but they both will do it!
Those chickens are Americanos are they not Bob? My wife has a few laying hens... kind of the thing to do now in suburbia. Pic below is a leghorn americano cross ~8 weeks old. Fresh eggs are wonderful are they not!
Killer C. Those red squirrels have quite the appetite for young songbirds and eggs. Chew into nesting boxes like a chainsaw.
Hi Ted, they are a cross between a Rhode Island Red and a New Hampshire Red chicken. Good layers and a big chicken for the meat. They are just spoiled rotten children who are just pets and I eat the eggs they give me. A little Fox Squirrel likes to lay underneath their chicken house and once in a while there is a confrontation!
So ya doing ok? I just got back from the funeral home, one of my old friends whom I shot many a crow on his farm ground passed away on October 10th. He was 74 years old. Had a lot of good times with him over the past 40 odd years. He lived 1 mile SE of the old Medora crow roost. He had a small feed yard that the crows used before heading for the roost, had many a good shoot there in the old days.
