BS: Winter Birds

Subject: BS: Winter Birds
From: Raptor
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 11:15 AM

I'm enjoying
Dark eyed juncos
Pine Siskens
Evening Grosbeaks
Blue Jays
Cardinals
Tree Sparrows
Starlings
Red-breasted Nuthatches
White Breasted Nuthatches
Downy Woodpeckers
Hairy Woodpeckers
At my feeders How about you?

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 11:58 AM

So far, I've noticed house sparrows (a whole herd of them, and they all flock to the feeder at the same time)
Black Capped Chickadees
Dark Eyed Junco
Cardinals (just the usual pair)
Blue Jays
Tufted Titmice

I know I'm missing some. The starlings hung around in the summer but are elsewhere now. One day I looked out to see a small hawk perched on my porch railing, eyeing the feeder as if it were an all-you-can-eat buffet. Luckily, the wee entrees aren't that stupid.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Janie
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:23 PM

Juncos
Cardinals
Carolina Chickadees (and also some black-capped, I think.)
tufted titmice
morning doves
rusty crows
goldfinches
house finches
purple finches
Carolina wrens
rufus-sided towhees
brown thrashers

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Beer
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:41 PM

And I have a Sharp shinned Hawk that is cleaning out my bird population. It takes a bird a day from my feeders and the winter has just begun. I started with 11 morning doves in September now I'm down to 6. I have the usual chickedees, sparrows, pair of red wings which surprise me that they stayed around. Bule jays, junckoes, nuthatches, downey and harry woodpecker and a pair of Cardinals that I'm hoping the hawk doesn't spot. I hate to think what I may have to do even though it is against the law. Any ideas in referance to the Hawk??
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 01:54 PM

Only the usual boring suburban stuff here in West London ! BUT my brother rescued a Harris Hawk out of a tree the other week - Jesses caught in the branches ! Shame he was so far away and I couldnt get up to see it before he took it to the local Falconry centre !

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: KateG
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 02:02 PM

Bears
Deer

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 02:09 PM

I was looking in our park and thought what Pretty Canadian Geese .

Then when they flew off they left a not so little presents .

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 02:29 PM

This is the time of year in southeast Alaska when the bird population is sparse. I enjoy the ravens- in summer they tend to head for the forests but in winter they are ubiqutous downtown. We also have a resident population of bald eagles, although there aren't as many as there in summer.

Most of our feathered friends this time of year are ducks, goldeneye, harlequin, bufflehead, mallard and others. They float in stately fashion in separate rafts on the ocean, ignoring each other.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 02:48 PM

Pretty much the usual flock...but...

I saw a rare Ream-nosed Romflombler on Tuesday. Failed to get a photo!

Also have had occasional visits this season from:

Grossbellied Nubbleheads
Parsimonious Nuthatches
Impecunious Gits
Least Northern Gits
Red-Eared Psychotrobes
Western Grey Twaddlers
Crested Glebes
Swanson's Glebes
Great Wallowing Glebes

And last, and possiby least as well...

the Least Glebe !

I wish to add that I am not responsible for attacks on songbirds at anyone's feeders.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Buddug
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 03:23 PM

Here on the North Wales coast saw lapwings landing yesterday - quite a sight.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 03:24 PM

Gloria's Swanson's Glebes, actually...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 04:21 PM

The tits have moved to new climes, only the blackbird has been hanging round the pyrocantha....

Must remember to hang one of the fat balls out on the bastard service tree this weekend maybe that will coax the tits back.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 04:41 PM

"Gloria's Swanson's Glebes, actually..." LH Are they related to the Golden Globes, Little Hawk?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: leftydee
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 07:33 PM

All the usual suspects:

Chickadees
English Sparrows
Goldfinches
Cardinals
Juncos
Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers
Mourning Doves
and I have a Cooper's Hawk working the feeders too. What the hell, he's a bird and he needs to eat too.

Plus, my nemisis (sp?), about 20 squirells. I keep hoping the hawk will grab some of these greedy little beggars.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 08:45 PM

House Sparrow
Magpies
Dunnocks
Greenfinches
Great Tits
Blue Tits
Long-Tailed-Tits
Goldfinches
Chaffinches
Collared Doves
Wood Pigeon
Herring Gulls
Robin
Wren
Blackbird
Carrion Crow
Perigrine Falcon
Sparrow Hawk

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: KathWestra
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 12:02 AM

Would be nice to know WHERE you folks are seeing these winter birds!
I'm in Rockland in the Midcoast region of Maine, just a five-minute walk from my house to the harbor, and regularly see:
mallards
laughing, gray-backed, and black-backed gulls
a bald eagle that perches and fishes at Glen Cove just north of town crows
chickadees
scaups
buffleheads
cardinals and

the most exciting bird I've ever seen in my yard (just once):
an immature white-winged crossbill. Look it up in your bird guide. An amazingly lovely creature with a golden-bronze head and brease, designed by Nature with a special bill to open up pinecones to get at the seeds, but also eats insects, berries and other stuff. This one was foraging in my yard for close to 15 minutes, allowing me to get a terrific look with the binoculars.

Although I haven't seen them, there are also lots of pine siskins being spotted in Maine, as well as Bohemian and Cedar waxwings. And one snowy owl in Wells, about two hours south of here.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 02:08 AM

Perhaps the omissions are just as intresting?

I see the European Starling on many of the US lists - it is noticable that it is a bird that does not appear on my list.

Up to fairly recently it would have appeared on just about every garden list here.

The Song Thrush also is missing.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Beer
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 07:03 AM

Kath,
   What's a Snowy Owl doing down there. I live in Quebec an hour West of Montreal and around Feb. we get two hungry Snowies that hang around for about a month. The reason I'm told is that when it gets really difficult to find pray they start to venture further south. Do you have any newspaper referring to this siting? Very unusual I would think.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,only a guest
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 08:03 AM

osprey
cormorants
wood ducks
limpkins
wood storks
great herons
anhingas
ibis
little herons
white herons



check out my blog for wood stork pictures:
http://pineyflatwoodsgirl.blogspot.com

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 08:15 AM

I quess we are too temperate to have many seasonal birds since most specieas are with us year 'round... The finches turn briwn so they don't stand out but you ceratinly hear their usual portestation song... Cranky little fellers...

But, yeah, we do get the junkos in winter which are perfectly content to ground feed under the feeder...

And, of course, the Robins have headed a little further south as have the humming birds...

But the rest are purdy much year 'rounders...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Raptor
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 08:34 AM

I'm having fun figgureing out where people are based on thier bird lists!

Did any one here do a Christmass Bird Count?

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Beer
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 08:44 AM

Yep.
I participated last year and this year I'll be doing it again. I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: bobad
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 02:30 PM

I have the usual wintering seed eaters including large numbers of goldfinches and red polls cleaning out the feeders these days. Saw a pileated woodpecker a few days ago, the wild turkeys are keeping a low profile these days with Christmas just around the corner.

The sight of these colourful lifeforms is a connecting and reassuring presence in the relatively lifeless and monochromatic winter landscape.
They bring me joy.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 03:17 PM

We have lots of birds at our feeders this year including:

Chickadees
Finches
Cardinals
Nuthatches
Juncos
Titmice
Downey Woodpeckers
Blue Jays....tons of Blue Jays....13 of them at one time this morning.

It used to be that a few Blue Jays would swoop down to the feeders and all the smaller birds would scatter but that isn't happening this year. Everyone seems to be getting along with one another. Interesting thing to watch though...the Blue Jays love to steal the dog food that the dogs aren't minding at the moment!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:47 AM

I haven't had a chance to get out and do much bird observation this fall, and if the birds are as confused by our weather as the plants are, then we have an odd mix. We have had a drought for months and apart from some very hard freezes, it has been unseasonably warm.

I did hear a throaty owl in a tree behind the house (over the creek) that was driving the dogs nuts. Robins are here most of the year, except in hot summer, and they're back now. Grackles, starlings, the usual suspects. I notice over at the big mall in the area one regularly hears an outdoor broadcast of a hawk's screech--intended to keep the grackles and starlings out of the parking lot trees. It does seem to work, and adds an interesting wildland adventure feel to the trip to the mall. ;)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,Pie Eye
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 12:53 PM

Counting birds is like counting pedestrians. Pointless. You never reach the end of them. What have you got when you have counted them? Nothing. Bloody waste of time is what it is. If I had counted all the birds I saw in the last 6 months, what would I have? A bloody huge number...and nothing useful to do with it, that's what. Now, as to counting the birds on Christmas...where does one stop? Do I count only those that can be seen from my kitchen window? If so, must I remain in the kitchen, at the window, for the whole day? I would not be able to do anything else, would I? This doesn't strike me as a good idea. If I went away to the washroom for a minute, I might miss a few birds. Then what? My count would be incomplete. Really, what's the use? You tell me.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:05 PM

Pensacola is winter home to one of the largest flocks of crows in the US. They roost in trees near the airport and fly to the county landfill about twenty miles away to feed each morning and then fly back to roost again in the evenings. They form an unbroken line of birds pretty much from one side of the county to the other. It appears that the migratory instinct instructing them to return to exactly the same place each winter is so strong that, even though their roosting area has been heavilly encroached upon by the airport, a major mall, countless strip malls and a college campus, they won't just move their roosts closer to the landfill to keep from having to fly forty miles each day.

Now, where I live, about an hour northeast of Pensacola itself, we don't really have any more crows in the winter than at any other time of year. What we do have are the ubiquitous European Starlings. Lots of 'em. Flocks that'll cover a ten acre pasture and hold the cattle grazing on it for ransom.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,Sam Grosbeak of Bent Hollow Fork
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:11 PM

We have been counting Raptor for some time now. There is still only one of him. Damn good thing! We appreciate the food, but we're starting to get pretty bored with the old staring routine. Doesn't he have anything better to do?

Hey! You lookin' at me? Well, you MUST be lookin' at me, cos I don't see anyone else around here. Hey! You LOOKIN' at me???

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,Edna Pine Siskin of Third Elm Branch
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:18 PM

He keeps staring at me too, and it gives me the creeps. I think he's some kind of deviant cross-species stalker. It's worth it for the food, though. My opinion is, he's too slow to be dangerous.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: The Shambles
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:25 PM

I did have two Starlings on the feeders this morning but it is unusual. At one time here they would have been one of the most common winter visitors.

It might sound logical to suggest that all of our birds have all flown to sunny Florida to form these huge flocks? Certainly many European human beings do this.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 02:50 PM

Looks like a mockingbird has broken into Little Hawk's house and is dancing on the computer keyboard, sounding like other birds, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,Eeyore
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 06:09 PM

I'm with Pie Eye on this. It's senseless to watch birds. No use in it at all. It leads nowhere. I suspect that one of the things one is condemned to do in Hell...for the somewhat smaller sins...is to watch birds for hours and hours...their varieties, of course, being very limited and unremarkable.

If you've really been bad, you have to downhill ski for hours on wet snow and then make speeches at ski lodges to crowds of drunken, noisy people who act like they know you, but really don't care for you in the least.

I'd rather eat thistles, frankly.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Scoville
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 06:36 PM

Nothing of interest here, just the usual cardinals, little brown sparrows, and the world's fattest mourning doves. We were considering having mourning dove in place of turkey for Thanksgiving. The ones in our yard are so fat my retirement-age house dog can almost catch them. We put out a bird feeder and now all our birds have gotten lazy (even the woodpeckers sometimes come for a snack. If you want to see some pissed-off cardinals, watch them try to bully a great, big, woodpecker off the feeder).

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,Woomer
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:13 PM

My dad had a woodpecker for many years, following a bad accident with a circular saw. It seemed to do the job okay, although he didn't have any more kids after that.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 07:17 AM

Never had a starling in this garden in Southern UK, and only recently had a house-sparrow. Nothing much different between Winter and Summer so my list is:

Blue Tit
Great Tit
Coal tit
Long-Tailed Tit
Bullfinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Nuthatch
Dunnock
Robin
Wren
Thrush
Blackbird
Wood-Pigeon
Collar Dove
Jay
Magpie
Crow
Jackdaw
Great Spotted Woodpecker

Odd visitors have been:
Pheasant (on the bird-table)
Long-Tailed Parakeet (huge colonies nearby)
Wood-Lark (spotted just the once)

And to top it all I appear to have attracted a Peregrine Falcon who surprised some guests by landing on my Washing Line the other day.

Am pretty sure I've also had Blackcap & Fieldfare but am waiting till they come again to be sure!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 08:43 AM

Hey Sam and Edna Flock off! You Cheep Bastards!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:05 AM

The ways things change in a faily short time. Lamenting the shortage of Starlings but now both of us having Perigines on our garden list - does rather demonstrate this........

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:45 AM

Yes, bird feeders can be a little too attractive sometimes - but that's life!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:55 AM

On Christmas day I saw a :-
Stuffed Turkey,
Plated Pheasant,
Plated Pigeon.
Sandwiched Chicken.
There were a lot of swallows! (eatin' them all)
Some Puffin' (loss of breath through overeatin')
A few 'owls at the Christmas cracker jokes
A lapwing (when I dropped a piece of the Turkey)
A Duck (when someone threw some pudding)
A Robin (someone stole my sandwich)
Birds everywhere eh?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Ron Davies
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:30 PM

We have now (DC area)

Carolina wren
Carolina chickadee
red-bellied woodpecker
white-breasted nuthatch
downy woodpecker
mourning dove
cardinal
white-throated sparrow
house finch
purple finch
goldfinch
junco
tufted titmouse

maybe a few more

And I have a few questions.

We used to get both red-breasted and white-breasted nuthatches. Could the loss of the red-breasted ones be due to global warming? (they like it cooler)

Also, I thought the juncos were "slate-colored juncos". Never heard of "dark-eyed juncos".
Is that a species caused by interbreeding or something similar?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Peace
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:54 PM

Pic of dark-eyed junco here.

from here.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Janie
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:19 AM

Just realized that I am not seeing white-throated sparrows. They are usually a winter staple in my yard.

Nasty. Nasty. At Mom & Dad's for Christmas. No where to park but under the Bradford pears, which are loaded with their little brown fruits. Flocks of Starlings descend on them. Eat. Poop. Car covered in brown starling poop. Yuck. Happy New Year.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: the one
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 08:32 AM

barn owls

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 12:20 PM

In UK the Teat....the most common of the owls

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 02:04 PM

I saw two hawks hunting by the 401, one between Windsor and London on Boxing Day, and the other yesterday on the stretch between Kingston and Prescott. Dark head, light grey flecked breast -- that's all I could see, so I don't know what species; they were definitely hawks, thought, as their flight attitude and wing shape were unmistakeable.

I think this is the first time I've seen hawks this late into the winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 03:42 PM

We've had starlings around for a while, whilst carol singing in the market the Saturday before Christmas Eve, one sat and listened to us for a good 10 minutes before flapping off and eating the holly berries from the flower stall.

We've had a bit of snow (barely enough to cool a hobbit's toes) this week so the birds have been hiding in the warm. All I've seen is a blackbird and a sparrow..... but there is a song thrush nearby in one of the churchyards, I heard it singing the other day.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:09 PM

Slate Colored Junco is The eastern sub-species of the Dark-eyed Junco

And the ranges of birds move qiute a lot back and fourth. Probably not a result of Warming but it is possible.
We are getting a lot of Virginia Oppossum here in Central Ontario. That wouldn't have been possible when we had colder winters because of thier naked tails and hands.

Southern bird spiecies are moving north as well such as Northern Mockingbird, and Tufted Titmouse!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Ron Davies
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 09:26 PM

Raptor--

Does this support my hypothesis of the red-breasted nuthatches disappearing due to global warming, since they like it cooler? You do have them further north, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 04:13 AM

I saw a red-breasted nuthatch a few years ago that had flown across the Atlantic Ocean to Holkham Pines in Norfolk UK.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Raptor
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:27 AM

Ron there are too many different factors that might determine range changes to be certin or to pinpoint one cause!

A nice way to say I don't know!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 10:44 AM

"I saw two hawks hunting by the 401, one between Windsor and London on Boxing Day, and the other yesterday on the stretch between Kingston and Prescott. Dark head, light grey flecked breast -- that's all I could see, so I don't know what species; they were definitely hawks, thought, as their flight attitude and wing shape were unmistakeable."

Likely suspect: Buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk). I think their diet largely consists of foraging Scuirus carolinensis (grey squirrel) at this time of year.

ABC

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 11:25 AM

ER... are oppossums birds?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Raptor
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 11:47 AM

Sounds like a red-tail to me! Although I'd bet they're hunting voles and mice.

The Opposum bird would look funny would it not?

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 02:04 PM

"I saw two hawks hunting by the 401, one between Windsor and London on Boxing Day, and the other yesterday on the stretch between Kingston and Prescott. Dark head, light grey flecked breast -- that's all I could see, so I don't know what species; they were definitely hawks, thought, as their flight attitude and wing shape were unmistakeable."

The most likely birds of prey to be seen on UK motorways are not really true 'hawks' (Accipiter Spp); but falcons - Kestrel Falco tinnunculus. Most likely to be seen hovering.

Next and becoming increasingly common in certain areas but with a different hunting style are Common Buzzard Buteo buteo, which wait to pounce on road casulties from lighting poles and road signs.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: maeve
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:58 PM

Kath- We had a snowy owl here in Whitefield, too, just before Christmas. I have a photo and saw others taken by a neighbor who spotted it on her barn.

Beer- They are a bit unusual, but not unheard of, in New England. I remember one visit in New Hampshire, too, years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: KathWestra
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 11:49 AM

Just checking in on this thread after being down in Washington, DC, for Christmas holidays. Beer, the report on the snowy owl was listed on the Maine bird report, which can be found (along with wonderful sighting reports from birders all over the world) at http://www.birdingonthe.net
Click on the link for regional lists, and then on Maine (or wherever you want to see what's been sighted).

Snowy owls do get quite far south, though not often. About three years ago, a Snowy showed up at a farm in Maryland just north of the Washington, D.C. area (where I lived at the time)and stayed for about six weeks. I have a beautiful photograph, taken by my friend Donald Sweig, of the owl flying through light snow from a fencepost toward the camera. We went to see the bird a number of times, and each time it was magical. Don's amazing picture captures the magic.

Ron, I love the Carolina Wrens, which stay in the Washington, DC, area all winter long and are the only songbirds that sing all winter long. There's nothing like seeing one of the little guys fly from the suet feeder to the shelter of the shrubbery, throw back his head, and sing. More magic.

Happy New Year, all you fellow birdlovers!
Kathy

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: open mike
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 06:31 PM

i plan to attend the local audubon society bird count tomorrow.
i did have an unusual sigthing of a goose (Ross's goose? small one)
walking in the road the other night in the middle of the night.
it allowed me to approach quite close, then flew a short distance,
only to appear in teh road around the bend...it didn't occur to me
until someone mentioned it...could this strange behavior be indicative
of bird flue? is there any warning about having contact with sick
birds? I have pet canaries at home i do not want to infect. and
neighbors have chickens.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Ron Davies
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 03:28 PM

Kathy--

A snowy owl in light snow at a farm in Maryland--sounds unearthly. Hope I get a chance someday to see that photo.

And a crossbill--that's amazing!

By the way, do you also get red-breasted nuthatches?   I know we used to get them, and no longer do. And I'm pretty sure we now get more mockingbirds staying all winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 03:34 PM

Saw an amazing bird of prey in our garden (in Cheshire UK) the other week. It stood on a low heap of grass and we got a good look. Dark head, pale breast with brown horizontal bars, fierce face. I think it must have been a sparrowhawk, which they say is around here,but I've never seen before, not close up. Last week heard a buzzard mewing as it was mobbed by crows.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Birds
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Jan 06 - 03:38 PM

while typing last message noticed the adverts for bird repelling devices. Who do they think reads this thread?