Feeding Wild Birds

[sourland]

Today while sitting on the club porch I saw a coyote cross the lane just outside the gate.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Today while sitting on the club porch I saw a coyote cross the lane just outside the gate.

Never saw a coyote bird!

 

[sourland]

A heavily parasitized hornworm has 'set up ' shop just outside our bathroom window. Yes, I grow tomato plants in my flower beds - no surprise there. The Ichneumon flies/wasps are starting to hatch. Tiny little things even when viewed through a magnifying glass. Something in nature that I have never witnessed before. Always something more.

 

[R2elk]

A heavily parasitized hornworm has 'set up ' shop just outside our bathroom window. Yes, I grow tomato plants in my flower beds - no surprise there. The Ichneumon flies/wasps are starting to hatch. Tiny little things even when viewed through a magnifying glass. Something in nature that I have never witnessed before. Always something more.

Did you miss my Sphinx Moth Caterpillar posts?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ous-social-salad-splash.1406620/post-23105566

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ous-social-salad-splash.1406620/post-23105583

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ous-social-salad-splash.1406620/post-23105588

 

[sourland]

Did you miss my Sphinx Moth Caterpillar posts?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ous-social-salad-splash.1406620/post-23105566

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ous-social-salad-splash.1406620/post-23105583

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ous-social-salad-splash.1406620/post-23105588

I did miss them - neat. Are there color variations as the ones that I have dealt with are generally more green.

 

[R2elk]

I did miss them - neat. Are there color variations as the ones that I have dealt with are generally more green.

Yes there are color variations just as there are with the Tomato Hornworms.

 

[R2elk]

Time to start getting your chicken molt pics.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...est-worst-chicken-molt-pictures-2020.1407979/

 

[Murple]

I live on the East coast, New Jersey to be specific. I have lived in the same home for 54 years and have fed the wild birds that entire time. This year populations are at an all time low. I would guess somewhere around 20 % of what normally feed here and at a wildlife club where I also feed. I was wondering if anyone else has noted a similar decrease in wild bird populations. I know that West Nile hit here fairly hard last year. Perhaps that is what caused the reduction ?

Personally, I think they might be moving gradually more southwestish. I live in PA and have seen Orioles, tanagers, kestrels, goldfinches, and hummingbirds (to name a few of the birds I don’t see frequently) and they are EVERYWHERE. This is the first year I’ve ever seen an oriole, and one is nesting in my yard. They must be just gradually shifting Southwest...?

 

[R2elk]

Personally, I think they might be moving gradually more southwestish. I live in PA and have seen Orioles, tanagers, kestrels, goldfinches, and hummingbirds (to name a few of the birds I don’t see frequently) and they are EVERYWHERE. This is the first year I’ve ever seen an oriole, and one is nesting in my yard. They must be just gradually shifting Southwest...?

I grew up in SW PA. We had Baltimore Orioles every summer.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I grew up in SW PA. We had Baltimore Orioles every summer.

We had them nest in our front yard one year in NY.n