![]() ![]() ![]() Female may not flush when nest is monitored, unless she is touched. When roosting, flushed birds often return. Adult may chatter loudly when nest area is approached. Some show no fear of humans when nesting in outbuildings. Monitoring: May abandon nests during construction or egg laying if disturbed (or female is captured). Those cocky things fly around teasing the cat so when one gets eaten I don't feel sorry for it. One of them even ate my father's rooster! The only birds my cat has killed is those annoying Blue Jays who were just asking for it. Several of the neighborhood dogs have a bad habit of killing small animals. Around here dogs are the biggest threat to birds. If birds are that stupid to build nests where predators can get to them then they deserve whatever they get. My personal rule is that I don't interfere with nature. I live in what is supposed to be a rural area but it's like anytime a developer (or whoever) sees trees, they tear them down to build houses and stores. Aren't people more of threat to birds than cats anyway? With all the building that goes on, birds will probably become extinct one day. They've been doing it for over thousands of years. I like watching birds and don't like to see them hurt, but why pick on cats? It's their nature to hunt small animals. :) They sure are cute little things and they love the peanut butter/cornmeal/shortening mix that I put out in a log feeder for them in the winter. Out of all of the birds that I get here, I call them the most eccentric. My dad had one build a nest in his fishing net one yet. I have bluebird houses stacked up in our corncrib and one year the Carolina wrens made a nest in one of them even with it turned upside down. I didn't shut the door again until after the babies fledged. One year I had a pair build a nest on one of the shelves in my workshop after those little opportunists sneaked in there a few days when I had the door open and made themselves right at home. That's a Carolina wren for ya, building a nest in such a strange place. They always make it look like it's urgent. I love to put a few lengths of vine in a big storage container and watch the cats scurry along on their way to somewhere that I guess they have in mind. They're my very favorite caterpillar to raise. Wow, it looks like she left you the mother lode there, Sherry! -) I think the most I ever had in a bunch was about 24. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |