Feeding Wild Birds

[Gill-b]

The sitting in "hides" for hours at a time is no different than what many hunters do while waiting for the shot at the game they are after.

Exactly that!!
I don't know how you/they do it.
(I just didn't want to mention hunters.)

Besides that, a motion capture device will not work in my circumstances as the wind is blowing the flower stem about and my camera will be constantly taking photographs.

 

[R2elk]

Rufous Hummingbird

 

[R2elk]

Exactly that!!
I don't know how you/they do it.
(I just didn't want to mention hunters.)

Besides that, a motion capture device will not work in my circumstances as the wind is blowing the flower stem about and my camera will be constantly taking photographs.

You can set it up to do time lapse photography and you might get lucky.

 

[sourland]

On Monday I saw a crow exhibiting neurological symptoms typical of West Nile virus at the club, and today I found the several days old carcass of another crow. Got to thinking and realized that my 'home' crows that I feed dog food to each night have not been around for a week or so. When West Nile first appeared here, it really depleted the crow population.

 

[Molpet]

On Monday I saw a crow exhibiting neurological symptoms typical of West Nile virus at the club, and today I found the several days old carcass of another crow. Got to thinking and realized that my 'home' crows that I feed dog food to each night have not been around for a week or so. When West Nile first appeared here, it really depleted the crow population.

Yes first time w. n. came through crows, jays and even squirrels were falling out of the trees.
Crows never came back to my place.