Kammermeyer: Time for wild bird feeding
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- Kammermeyer: Time for wild bird feeding
- Christmas Bird Count reports 56 species
- Weather hinders this year’s Christmas Bird Count
- But will they throw the pucks back?
- Birdbrain’s headin’ home
- Birds of a feather spend time together Man spends retirement …
Kammermeyer: Time for wild bird feeding
Gainesville Times GA
If you have not tried it already you are in for a real treat and best of all it really helps the birds through a stressful tough winter season even in Northeast Georgia and further south. ver 65 million Americans have participated in bird feeding and bird watching which makes it one of the fastest growing hobbies in the country second only to gardening. These folks also spend more than two billion dollars on birdseed and over 600 million on baths feeders and houses every year. If you are not yet one of them join the crowd. Believe it or not there are good and not so good ways to do it but it is pretty easy to get started. Throwing seed on the ground is not the best way to feed birds as soil contact makes the seed mold and rot as well as increase potential for disease transmission from droppings especially bacteria such as salmonella.
Christmas Bird Count reports 56 species
Sioux City Journal IA
Total number of species counted was 56. The count was conducted as scheduled despite winds of 30 to 40 mph that caused occasional whiteouts and temperatures that fell from 32 degrees at 4:15 a.
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Weather hinders this year’s Christmas Bird Count
Crookston Daily Times MN
Many bird feeders were observed empty in yards around Crookston. The number of people feeding birds throughout the winter has decreased dramatically in recent years Feiro said adding that winter feeding is extremely important to bird survival especially during storms as we have witnessed so far this year. Following is a list of bird species observed during this years count: Greater prairie chicken rock dove (pigeon) downy woodpecker hairy woodpecker blue jay American crow black-capped chickadee white-breasted nuthatch European starling dark-eyed junco Lapland longspur snow bunting purple finch house finch common redpoll pine siskin American goldfinch house sparrow. The 2009 Crookston Christmas Bird Count will be held on Saturday Dec. Related Stories Loading additional related stories.
But will they throw the pucks back?
Los Angeles Times CA
A burst of feathers ensued and the pigeons flew away — except one. “I kicked the ball and poor pigeon” Aguirre a defender for the club team San Lorenzo told the Associated Press. “Now I will be remembered as the pigeon killer. Aguirre hit the bird during the 2-1 victory against Tigre in a three-team round-robin for the Argentine league championship. Several players surrounded the wounded bird as it tried to fly away but the bird collapsed. Eventually referee Saul Laverni scooped up the dead pigeon and placed it off the field. Aguirre joins Dave Winfield and Randy Johnson as athletes who have killed birds during competition.
Birdbrain’s headin’ home
Toronto Sun Canada
The disoriented bird was then whisked to Calgary where it was picked up by staff from the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. Naturalists there are working to nurse it back to health. The bird is about the size of a pigeon but has a long gull-like black bill a stocky torso vivid reddish-orange webbed feet and sits back on its legs like a puffin — built for the rolling waves of the North Atlantic not the flatlands of the prairies. “We sent pictures of the bird out to bird experts and they all came back saying this is a black guillemot from the East Coast. This is a visitor that stowed away from St. John’s that made his way across here” said Carol Kelly the executive director of the wildlife centre. “He is a wonderful feisty little bird.
Birds of a feather spend time together Man spends retirement …
The Ann Arbor News – MLive.com MI
Bunt is a familiar sight in downtown Brighton where heoften walks and shops with Paco on his shoulder or in thePinckney Community Schools where his children attended andhe has been invited to visit classrooms to share hiscolorful birds with students. “Paco sat on just aboutevery kid there” he says of his visit toPathfinder School. Although he has only cared for his family birds in the mostrecent decade he had homing pigeons as a child and isfamiliar with bird care. According to avian rescue groups companion birds are thethird most preferred pet nationally. But living with birdscan be challenging say both Bunt and experts.
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