Where's the birds?

[jimmyj]

I am pretty sure bats hibernate.

 

[turnkey4099]

Finally saw a big flock of small birds pecking at some road kill today and one hawk recently. That is all so far. We did have a light snow Wed, just enough to cover the ground. I sent a query to the newspaper but got no answer and nothing in the paper about it.

Another odd thing. I used to have a big ?flock? of barn swallows. I haven't seen one of those in several years.

Harry K

 

[imgone52]

A little snow each of the last two mornings and the feeders are busy. I believe the snow has covered whatever their natural source of feed was.

 

[NSBound]

I woke up one morning to nary a bird at my feeders. I wondered why too, until I saw this guy perched in a nearby tree :


IMGL8907 Sharp Shinned Hawk by Wallace River, on Flickr

 

[jmurray01]

I don't put bird feeders up, as my 84 year old neighbour feeds the birds and I just let her do it, but I've seen plenty Robin Red Breasts lately, but less Black Birds for some reason...

 

[ragkar]

I haven't seen any birds around here for a while. However there may be a reason. For the last few days I've been hearing a screech from some bird. It sounds like the screech that accompanies those tv documentary scenes that show an eagle soaring above a mountain.
I haven't spotted him yet, but I think that I have a raptor.

 

[jmurray01]

I haven't seen any birds around here for a while. However there may be a reason. For the last few days I've been hearing a screech from some bird. It sounds like the screech that accompanies those tv documentary scenes that show an eagle soaring above a mountain.
I haven't spotted him yet, but I think that I have a raptor.

So he is either scaring all the other birds away or killing them you reckon ?

 

[toppop52]

At my new place there's an eagle about a mile away and he patrols the area as well as a chicken/rabbit hawk, between them the birds lay low as well as the squirrels. I saw an eagle take a groundhog that was running across the field, so if he can grab a running 12 lb or so juvenile groundhog the squirrels and rabbits don't stand a chance. They may prefer fish, but that one grabbed a dead possum out of the road a couple of weeks ago.

 

[troutsqueezer]

Still waiting to spot that Ivory-billed Woodpecker that has come back from extinction. This town needs some re-invigorating. Or maybe an apparition of the Virgin Mary would work.

sorry fellow Birders...

 

[Wesdor]

No snow on the ground yet and that means lots of other food sources. We feed all year round and have cardinals, Flickers, Downey Woodpeckers so far. Last week we had a HUGE flock of starlings but they stayed in the cornfield north of the house.