Re: birds and other critters

Maria - what lake - where are you in NE PA??

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From: Maria Olshin <marolsh@ptd.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:08:10 -0500

>The lake here is 315 acres, and lots of migratory waterfowl stop here. I've
>seen ruddy duck, buffleheads, goldeneyes, mergansers and cormorants, among
>others, but the most exciting sighting was a flock of loons. I counted 38 of
>them! There are also great blue and green herons and kingfishers. I
>occasionally see rose-breasted grosbeaks at my feeder, and just once, an
>indigo bunting. I've also seen quite a few eastern bluebirds in NE PA, but
>not at this elevation. There are bald eagles in the area, too. Auralie, have
>you ever heard that there are peregrines nesting on the George Washington
>Bridge? I think they live quite well on the pigeons in NYC.
>
>There is a rapidly growing population of resident Canadas here, and the
>Animal Control officer finds as many nests as he can in the spring and
>shakes the eggs vigorously, then puts them back. It prevents the parents
>from laying more eggs to replace broken or stolen ones. Unfortunately, he
>misses more than he finds. It wouldn't be so bad if I only had to watch my
>step in the yard, but my dog has goose poop radar, and she's on it like
>white on rice. Groshem as they never
>>> land here:-)  I've never seen a scarlet tanager; lucky you!
>>> 
>>> When we first built here and things were a tad more open, we had a
>>> few red-wings, but they don't like woods, so don't come now. The
>>> mocking birds aren't as numerous as they were for the same
>>> reason...they like more open areas best; actually, same with the
>>> starlings.  Used to have a resident family, but only see them in
>>> flocks in winter now when snow covers everything as they like grassy
>>> areas to hunt in.  I have seen red tailed hawks, but not on the
>>> property...we seem to have a resident pair of red-shouldered hawks as
>>> they are seen pretty regularly sitting in trees looking down for
>>> rodents (they can have all they want...I encourage them...'catch
>>> voles...catch voles'...all I can:-))  Not so thrilled when they
>>> decide to hunt at the feeders!  But they are magnificent birds.
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>> We're really very rustic even though part of the great "metropolitan sprawl."
>> 
>> Auralie
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 02/17/2003 11:55:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> mtalt@hort.net writes:
>> 
>>> That is remarkable, Auralie.  You must have some open fields and
>>> water near you to have red-wing blackbirds, kingfishers, mallards and
>>> heron.  I get a flock of Canada geese flying over every evening on
>>> their way to the Potomac River, but can't claim them as they never
>>> land here:-)  I've never seen a scarlet tanager; lucky you!
>>> 
>>> When we first built here and things were a tad more open, we had a
>>> few red-wings, but they don't like woods, so don't come now. The
>>> mocking birds aren't as numerous as they were for the same
>>> reason...they like more open areas best; actually, same with the
>>> starlings.  Used to have a resident family, but only see them in
>>> flocks in winter now when snow covers everything as they like grassy
>>> areas to hunt in.  I have seen red tailed hawks, but not on the
>>> property...we seem to have a resident pair of red-shouldered hawks as
>>> they are seen pretty regularly sitting in trees looking down for
>>> rodents (they can have all they want...I encourage them...'catch
>>> voles...catch voles'...all I can:-))  Not so thrilled when they
>>> decide to hunt at the feeders!  But they are magnificent birds.
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