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Garden Master
What birds are common in your garden?
It is interesting to me that some species are so common in some areas. You can be sure that whatever a situation is in one person's yard and garden, that bird population may be found to be totally absent just a few hundred miles away.
Perhaps, we might be pleased that some species can adapt well to human habitation. Personally, I would have appreciated the humans fitting in a little better with what was already here. I'm confident that indigenous people in North America transformed the environment, notably by fire, so that some animal species flourished, or did not.
I seldom see Wrens. If I would want to, I know of a small creek on the north side of a mountain where I'm likely to find them. The location should have some Brown Creepers and Nuthatches, also. Probably, a Flycatcher, of one sort or another, would be perched overhead. A Towhee might be searching through the underbrush. Of course, there situation right now in January is a mystery to me. I used to visit during a summer afternoon and it was only about a 30 minute walk from my home. Where, 4 of those species would be around, but not the Wrens, then or here.
I now live elsewhere and further from that more natural area and its common summer birds. I'm not likely to see ANY of those here, where single family homes are separated by 50' of altered landscapes. About a mile away, the river courses its way through the valley and I have discovered that there are many more species than those or those few here at home.
What birds are common around your home?
Steve
It is interesting to me that some species are so common in some areas. You can be sure that whatever a situation is in one person's yard and garden, that bird population may be found to be totally absent just a few hundred miles away.
Perhaps, we might be pleased that some species can adapt well to human habitation. Personally, I would have appreciated the humans fitting in a little better with what was already here. I'm confident that indigenous people in North America transformed the environment, notably by fire, so that some animal species flourished, or did not.
I seldom see Wrens. If I would want to, I know of a small creek on the north side of a mountain where I'm likely to find them. The location should have some Brown Creepers and Nuthatches, also. Probably, a Flycatcher, of one sort or another, would be perched overhead. A Towhee might be searching through the underbrush. Of course, there situation right now in January is a mystery to me. I used to visit during a summer afternoon and it was only about a 30 minute walk from my home. Where, 4 of those species would be around, but not the Wrens, then or here.
I now live elsewhere and further from that more natural area and its common summer birds. I'm not likely to see ANY of those here, where single family homes are separated by 50' of altered landscapes. About a mile away, the river courses its way through the valley and I have discovered that there are many more species than those or those few here at home.
What birds are common around your home?
Steve