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[flowerbug]

she really is for me too... i've never lived with any one else for as long. about 2/3rds of my life.

 

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[Rillowen]

If you don't have pheasant it is probably bc coywolves are picking them off.
There is a guy in S., where DD's live who raises them in about 4 large outdoor cages, something like 20'x100', and the enclosures protect them Most years from weasels, although I spoke to him once and a weasel got into one of the enclosures and decimated his flock.

They are rare here, we have a pretty high opossum and coyote population. The neighbors have mass baught and raised and released them a few times, but there still isn't much stable population.

 

[Rillowen]

There are some (or similar) nearby.

There is quite a variety of swallows in the interior NW and swifts are out in the sage country of the Columbia Basin occupying cliffs. No mockingbirds but the Sage Thrasher is a relative and out there as well.

"Development" puts pressure on native bird populations. When the human residents were a fraction of the number of what they are now, many native birds had wider ranges.

I had always dreamed of having mocking birds in my yard, I find them so cool! I never thought I would though. I was so surprised when I saw them here, it to me weeks (and several occasions of lading in front of me and wing flashing) to realize it wasnt wishful thinking!

 

[Rillowen]

Domestic turkeys are a sneeze away from wild turkeys and they can fly up to tree branches, which helps with predators.

We do have quite the turkey population here, so much that the state offers incentives for hunting them! The neighbors usually get 3+ a year.

 

[digitS']

I hope they come back soon.
That little Robin was a welcoming sight for me after about 3 years

I believe that I am correct in thinking that a “Robin” in the UK is a finch. A Robin in N America is a thrush with the same color pattern .

 

[Marie2020]

I believe that I am correct in thinking that a “Robin” in the UK is a finch. A Robin in N America is a thrush with the same color pattern .

Beautiful little red breasted creatures. They are usually on on Christmas cards

 

[flowerbug]

Beautiful little red breasted creatures. They are usually on on Christmas cards

a very different looking tweety bird. pretty.

USA Robins are about twice the size by the looks of it.