Re: birds and other critters

Marge, I kind of accused him of not being very observant.  We have many
different types of birds, several species of finch, sparrows, many
raptors three resident types of hummingbirds, jays and I would think one
big difference is that we have many of them 365 days of the year.  Of
course you could be right and he was in a fly way and saw several species
on their way to somewhere else.  Boy, I didn't include all the types of
coastal birds.  Auralie, I live 30 miles from the Pacific...as the crow
flies if you'll pardon the pun!

DF

Marge Talt wrote:

> I don't know about 'more', but the wildlife in CA is different from
> the wildlife in more eastern states.  Could be he lived under a fly
> through path or something:-)  I lived in SF when I lived in CA, so
> there weren't as many birds as I have in a suburban woodland here,
> but my MIL lived in Walnut Hills and then LeisureWorld not far from
> there and I recall there were deer (mule, I think as opposed to white
> tail), coyotes and quail (something I never see here) around her
> place.  I would imagine (without doing a search) that the numbers of
> species of wildlife are comparable, but possibly that some of yours
> are not as visible in backyards as some of ours....now, as to birds,
> I do not know.  What birds come to your feeders or do you see around
> your place?
>
> Another thought is the type of terrain where you are.  Eastern parts
> (and some parts of the midwest) are pretty heavily wooded.  More open
> territory (the golden hills of CA, for instance) might not offer the
> variety of nesting sites that more wooded territory does.  Tho' seems
> to me when I ventured up the coast, we went through a lot of woodland
> areas...been about 35 years, so things may have changed:-)
>
> And, where does this fella live?  Is it in an urban place; wooded
> place; open hills and scrub or what?  Where you are more or less
> determines what kinds of wild critters are going to live near you.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> > From: David Franzman <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
> > Hey, I'm curious for those of you who are from the green east but
> have
> > spent time here in the arid west.  I was just talking with a fella
> who
> > has lived here for the last four years and he says that one of the
> > biggest things he's had to adapt to has been the lack of critters
> > specifically birds in Ca. versus Chicago where he hails.  He says
> that
> > in the spring, summer and fall there are many, many more birds and
> just
> > plain wildlife there than there is here.  Can anybody enlighten me?
> > I've never lived anywhere else so I don't have anything to compare
> it
> > to.
>
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