BIRDS

[CalandLinda]

Up here in the SC foot hills our little Humming Birds are leaving for warmer places to spend the winter.

[mlh]

Originally Posted by CalandLinda

Up here in the SC foot hills our little Humming Birds are leaving for warmer places to spend the winter.

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Ours up here in western Va are sticking around for a few more days or at less they were here yesterday. They could be ones just passing through heading to S.C.
Lynwood

[CalandLinda]

Found at an RV Park at Scuffletown, SC.

Smelled like a bird, acted like a bird, looked like a bird and ran like a bird. It must have been a bird.

[mlh]

It’s Big Bird.
Lynwood

[mhs4771]

Can't be Big Bird, it's not Yellow

[mlh]

Our hummingbirds are still around just not as many as we had before.
Lynwood

[CalandLinda]

Here is an old Brown Pelican basking in the sun at a busy pier at John's Pass, Madeira Beach, FL.

[mlh]

I know this is a fairly old thread but how do they know? A neighbor has a few chickens maybe a dozen. A pair of broad wing hawks are staying around here. The chickens have never seen a hawk. You have never seen old hens head for the chicken house so fast when one of the hawks fly over. Crows and buzzards fly over many times every day. How do they know the difference and how do they know the hawks will harm them?
Lynwood

[AZ Traveler]

Generations of their kin that did not survive raptor encounters.

[mlh]

We now think it’s awful to kill a hawk but think about this. Seventy years ago people were trying to feed their families on what they could grow, the game they could shoot or catch and you had a fox or hawk catching your chickens. They were eggs and Sunday dinner. I’ll bet everybody here would shoot a hawk if it meant your family wouldn’t go without dinner. We almost wiped deer out but they were a source of free food. I have an older friend who said a neighbor would bring the neighbors elk he had shot. There were elk here in western Virginia then. They had stocked at the Peaks of Otter on the Blueridge Parkway. We had a pair on the property in the fifties. It’s easy for us to say it was awful to wipe out all the game but if it meant feeding your family or going without something to eat, I can’t imagine not feeding your family. Hank Williams Jr said it best ‘a country boy can survive’.
Lynwood