The list below was created at enature.com; it represents the species (birds and otherwise) that I’ve seen in my own back yard. The deer and fox are old sightings; everything else has been seen in the past 3 days!
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Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum |
Seen only once, ground feeding in the late afternoon. | 5/25/2007 |
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Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis |
Daily visitor. May be black-capped chickadee. | 5/28/2007 |
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Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus |
5/27/2007 | |
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Common Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus |
5/28/2007 | |
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Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis |
5/28/2007 | |
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Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea |
5/27/2007 | |
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Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
Daily visitors, male and female | 5/28/2007 |
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Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius |
Questionable sighting, once only, ground feeding in the mid-morning. | 5/28/2007 |
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Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus |
5/25/2007 | |
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris |
Daily visitors, maile and female | 5/28/2007 |
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Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor (Parus bicolor) |
Daily visitors, always in pairs. | 5/28/2007 |
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Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana |
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White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus |
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I live in an abundance of birds, but the only ones I’ve been noticing lately are the barn swallows. Every year, I have to shoot several because they are such pests.
By: Jeffro on May 28, 2007
at 6:37 pm
Jeffro, pest or not, shooting ‘em is agin the law. As song birds, they are protected. ‘Sides, they eat bugs like mosquitoes, deer flies and such. They’re your friends, man!
By: joated on May 28, 2007
at 7:24 pm
Not in my state…..
And you can clean up their droppings from my porch, if you are so inclined.
By: Jeffro on May 30, 2007
at 1:04 am
As a migratory species, the swallow IS protected by federal law.
By: joated on June 1, 2007
at 8:25 pm
It is the ignorance of people like Jeffro that is causing the dwindling numbers of birds, along with other causes, in nature. I have a hard time believing that people do not know that ALL birds, except for the European Starling and the House Sparrow, are protected by FEDERAL law.
I have confronted others who make it a sport of killing songbirds. After quoting the law to them, and it made no difference to them, they were reported.
By: John Briggs on June 6, 2007
at 2:31 pm
John, I think Jeffro made his reasons for targeting barn swallows perfectly clear, and I think that it’s overkill to call anyone ignorant because they don’t want to allow birds to foul their homes with feces. He is certainly not “killing for sport”, as you imply in your comment.
While I’m entirely in favor of preserving species, I don’t think that birds should be given priority over people. Bird feces is full of disease, besides being unpleasant to see, smell and walk through. Human health concerns MUST take precedence over bird populations.
MG
By: MorningGlory on June 7, 2007
at 1:33 pm
Jeffro, have you tried any other method of controlling the birds short of actually shooting them. I understand your problem, but I think there might be better ways. Check out Nixalite for some ideas. I’m sure there are other websites with home-fashioned ways of removing unwanted birds.
John, thanks for your private reply to my comment above. You made some valid points, and with your permission, I’d like to post it.
MG
By: MorningGlory on June 8, 2007
at 6:07 am
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By: Morning Glory 2 Sometimes, the birds need to go away. « on June 9, 2007
at 8:03 am