I only get house finches (love the hoppity hoppity), crows, and the occasional mockingbird and the very occasional small hawk. Plus robins. But I don't have a feeder as it drove my late cat nuts. I hear the occasional flicker woodpecker; there are definitely pecking holes in the utility poles.
I miss robins. we used to get a lot of mockingbird in the yard, but see few of them recently, and lots of crows, can hear them roosting in the neighborhood most nights, and I always see about 5-8 when I walk every day. I rather like them.
The robins are only occasional in early spring. The mockingbird population has gone down, but the crow population went way up during lockdown. One of them will come fairly close and stare at me to remind me who's the boss. I didn't mind when the mockingbird who liked imitating the neighbor's long multi-sound car alarm finally died after the neighbor moved. Oh, and a few mourning doves cooing just after sunset.
With the endless drought, there are far fewer water sources for all of the wildlife. We have a lot less raccoons and possums than before too.
We had a mockingbird once who learned to replicate the squeaky sound our a bour all made when Boston Terrier chewed on it. Really fairly amusing. but car alarm, ouch!
Whoop whoop, honk honk, eee-aww, eee-aww, and other such noises. And the real alarm was set way too sensitive so it's no wonder the bird learned it. The whole street was glad when those people moved away; the alarm went off often in the middle of the night and the next-door neighbor would stagger out and pull the wire loose, then he'd chew them out the next day. As the bedroom faces the street, I really didn't like either the noise or the blinking lights.
I've lived here 30 years and no one's ever had their car stolen.
I’m enjoying the redwing blackbirds and the baby ducks 🦆!
Just love the birds!! As mom said, we had the joy of seeing the beautiful red-winged black bird yesterday 😊
Interesting that at the moment are temperatures are about the same. My 19 is near your 60-70.
You are in Australia? aren't you? If so, definitely interesting that spring and fall temps are so similar!
Yes I am. So 68 F is about 20C. We had some unusually warm days last week.
Yes I am in Australia
I only get house finches (love the hoppity hoppity), crows, and the occasional mockingbird and the very occasional small hawk. Plus robins. But I don't have a feeder as it drove my late cat nuts. I hear the occasional flicker woodpecker; there are definitely pecking holes in the utility poles.
I miss robins. we used to get a lot of mockingbird in the yard, but see few of them recently, and lots of crows, can hear them roosting in the neighborhood most nights, and I always see about 5-8 when I walk every day. I rather like them.
The robins are only occasional in early spring. The mockingbird population has gone down, but the crow population went way up during lockdown. One of them will come fairly close and stare at me to remind me who's the boss. I didn't mind when the mockingbird who liked imitating the neighbor's long multi-sound car alarm finally died after the neighbor moved. Oh, and a few mourning doves cooing just after sunset.
With the endless drought, there are far fewer water sources for all of the wildlife. We have a lot less raccoons and possums than before too.
We had a mockingbird once who learned to replicate the squeaky sound our a bour all made when Boston Terrier chewed on it. Really fairly amusing. but car alarm, ouch!
Whoop whoop, honk honk, eee-aww, eee-aww, and other such noises. And the real alarm was set way too sensitive so it's no wonder the bird learned it. The whole street was glad when those people moved away; the alarm went off often in the middle of the night and the next-door neighbor would stagger out and pull the wire loose, then he'd chew them out the next day. As the bedroom faces the street, I really didn't like either the noise or the blinking lights.
I've lived here 30 years and no one's ever had their car stolen.