Osprey - 7-4-2007 at 09:46 AM
Bad hurricanes kill or displace lots of birds on the peninsula. At my house I'm now visited daily by some Pyrrhuloxia which have stayed down in the
scrub near the beach for 12 straight years -- never saw one near my house. The Phainopepla (looks like a black cardinal) was here in droves and has
not been seen since Hurricane John 9 months ago. Anybody else seen strange bird changes after the storm? I'm not a birder so I don't know about how
they move about.
Cypress - 7-4-2007 at 10:03 AM
Osprey, We had a bad thunderstorm the other evening, rare in these parts, knocked the power out for 3 days. Blew down an osprey nest with two chicks.
They were just getting their pin feathers, killed 'em both.
bajajudy - 7-4-2007 at 10:57 AM
Seahawk
Cardinals do not migrate.
I just read up on them because I noticed that we dont have any in our yard anymore! I think that the reason is all the doves we now have that eat the
chicken feed that we leave everywhere. There are so many doves in the morning that when they all take off together, it sounds like a plane taking
off. Scared the you-know-what out of me the first time it happened.
Cardinals like a feeder in a shrub or a bush(probably not either one of the presidents). Putting the feeder here is also supposed to keep doves and
pigeons out as they do not like to feed in a closed area.
Cardinals really like sunflower seeds and in mating season the male will open them for the females...romantic,eh?
They also like cornbread and suet.
We have just put a feeder in one of our low ficus trees with some of last night's leftover(how did that happen) cornbread.
I will let you know if they like it but it sounds like they are already living in shrubs near your place.
Cypress...bummer
[Edited on 7-4-2007 by bajajudy]
bajajudy - 7-4-2007 at 05:03 PM
Checked to see what happened after Katrina and they said that the biggest problem was the habitat that had been destroyed. There were no trees for
nests. I would guess that our birds fared a little better because there were still trees for them to nest in.
I realized that my overzealous report on cardinals had not addressed your question. BUT you got to admit that it was weird that I had just looked up
cardinals last night...
Iflyfish - 7-4-2007 at 05:35 PM
Lovely birds, saw them for the first time around Cabo in Jan of 07. Hope they come back.
Iflyfish