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[Dahlia]

I haven't seen a Robin in a few years, but yesterday I saw one .

My oldest daughter has a bird feeder on her back porch and says that there is rarely a time during the day when there isn't a bird dining there! She has counted 10 different species that come visit!

 

[flowerbug]

i'm hoping with the field to the south of us going back to open field and some trees and shrubs planted will get some more pheasants and bobwhites back. we used to hear pheasants calling all the time and would see them around. haven't seen bobwhites in a much longer time.

 

[Marie2020]

i'm hoping with the field to the south of us going back to open field and some trees and shrubs planted will get some more pheasants and bobwhites back. we used to hear pheasants calling all the time and would see them around. haven't seen bobwhites in a much longer time.

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

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

What a funny crow! Our birds have been going crazy. Went on a bird walk with my daughter yesterday morning, we heard or saw whopperwhills, Cardinals, blue jays, mourning doves, robins, Bob white, blue birds, chickadee, medowlark, crows, mocking birds, chimney swifts, and even an owl! our new house is a bird watchers paradise!

I used to live in Oklahoma and Kansas and a lot of the birds you mentioned do not live here and I sure miss them.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

i'm hoping with the field to the south of us going back to open field and some trees and shrubs planted will get some more pheasants and bobwhites back. we used to hear pheasants calling all the time and would see them around. haven't seen bobwhites in a much longer time.

I hope they come back. DD had a peasant living close to her and she could here it. We had a few quail a month ago but they are gone now.

 

[Dahlia]

i'm hoping with the field to the south of us going back to open field and some trees and shrubs planted will get some more pheasants and bobwhites back. we used to hear pheasants calling all the time and would see them around. haven't seen bobwhites in a much longer time.

Today I was walking along the water and I heard some loud squeaking sounds. It looked closely and saw a mamma duck and nine goslings! They were so cute!!

 

[ducks4you]

i'm hoping with the field to the south of us going back to open field and some trees and shrubs planted will get some more pheasants and bobwhites back. we used to hear pheasants calling all the time and would see them around. haven't seen bobwhites in a much longer time.

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.

 

[flowerbug]

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.

there aren't any major coywolf populations around here that i know of as there aren't any wolves around either. there are coyotes around for sure. i've seen them running and can hear them yipping some nights.

the major predator of pheasants around here is likely the automobile and also some people hunted them (neighbor out back did) along with habitat destruction and feral kitties it's a major stack of predation they have to cope with. i'm not sure they will be able to come back without someone letting more out and not hunting them so much. we'll see what happens...

in comparison the wild turkeys manage because they are a much larger bird but also because they have such huge numbers of offspring.

 

[ducks4you]

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

 

[digitS']

a lot of the birds you mentioned

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.