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10:40p, 4/27/20
I'm trying to turn my yard into a bird haven. Have multiple bird feeders set up, 2 hummingbird feeders, & every plant I have is for hummingbirds/butterflies. I usually dozens of cardinals, dove, etc everyday. I have a nest on my front porch but I'm not sure the species. I have the painted buntings visit every day & are beautiful. I have some woodpeckers too. The hummingbirds are very active. Last year, with just one feeder, I would have up to a dozen at a time. I make my own food, 1 cup of sugar, 4 cups of water.

I also have a cubby of quail that showed up last year. They are back this year. I have added meal worms into my feeders for them. Also is good for the roadrunners in the yard.

Hawks are also very active at my house. For some reason they pick off the roadrunners before they do the dove who are just sitting under the feeders getting fatter.
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At our feeders, the coopers goes after the sparrows for the most part. I have never seen one take a dove, and we have plenty of fat white wings it could easily take. My suspicion is that the doves are too heavy to carry away to a more comfortable dining location.
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6:12a, 4/28/20
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the coopers goes after the sparrows for the most part.
They have hit the cowbirds on ours. I call that a win win
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the coopers goes after the sparrows for the most part.
They have hit the cowbirds on ours. I call that a win win
Indeed!

I found fledgling bluebird feathers recently which was no bueno.
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Speaking of roadrunners, anybody have some pics of one?
One of my favorite birds.
Couple from Big Bend.



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1:17p, 4/28/20
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Some awesome photography on this thread!
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They are definitely in the area, just harder to see because we have more vegetation to hide in than out west. I have seen one down the road from my house in south CS behind a school near some open fields. Where we lived a few years ago, when I took the Indigo Bunting pics, there was a pair close by that likely nested in the area.
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In reply to Aries • 1:34p, 4/28/20
You didn't mention it, and may have one, but a water feature is very important for birds. If you have one with a pump or drip system for running water, that is a big bonus. Birds hear running water and it attracts them like a magnet. Feeders are great, but not all birds eat seeds or from a feeder. Every bird needs water, even in winter.
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Mama looks like she'd rip your heart out if you got a step closer.
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11:26a, 4/29/20
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There's a guy near Lubbock who posts a lot of nature photos, and he's pretty good. He got a lot of shots of hawks following his tractor the other day.

https://www.facebook.com/Farmtofoto/
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And the primier wildlife photographer in West Texas, is, of course Wyman Meinzer. I think this video has been posted here several times.

https://vimeo.com/22132017?fbclid=IwAR2EMjPTkr-cAnBNKc88QNbX_5bQWPgbS2Q1EMUgZWUQP4gTrMjTtJLkU-k
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There's a guy near Lubbock who posts a lot of nature photos, and he's pretty good. He got a lot of shots of hawks following his tractor the other day.

https://www.facebook.com/Farmtofoto/
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From Farm to Foto, Visions of a West Texas Farmer

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And the primier wildlife photographer in West Texas, is, of course Wyman Meinzer. I think this video has been posted here several times.

https://vimeo.com/22132017?fbclid=IwAR2EMjPTkr-cAnBNKc88QNbX_5bQWPgbS2Q1EMUgZWUQP4gTrMjTtJLkU-k
Yeh, he's good. I starting following him on FB this winter.

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4:46a, 4/30/20
Went to the coast yesterday and migration birds for the most part where non-existent but I did get these.





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8:49a, 4/30/20
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Osprey by the office from yesterday.
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FAT SEXY said:
Is that platform positioned up there for nesting purposes?

Probably. And to keep them out of the wires
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9:39a, 4/30/20
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Yes, those nesting platforms are very common all over up here. I've seen them up in the DFW area some, too.

I grabbed my wife's fancy camera and took a few more on the way into the office this morning.





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FAT SEXY said:
Pour one out for all the BBQ'd Ospreys of the past that died so todays birds can get these sweet ass nesting platforms.

The real MVPs

Worked a farm once that had a spot where one high voltage line went off from another at a 90 degree angle and slightly lower. Find a dead immature bald eagle underneath it one time. He had arced by hitting two lines at once.

Called the wildlife people, who made the utility cover the lines with insulation for a few feet either side of the intersection.

I very much got the idea they all would have preferred I shoveled and shut up.

Goes along with the time I found a great horned owl with a broken wing. Local wildlife guy came out, declared it beyond help, and beat it to death with a piece of rebar.

All those "Lone Star Law" episodes where they take animals to rehabbers.....yeah, not so much.
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Found this Luna Moth hanging out below the outside light tonight. Pretty cool to see one this early in East Tennessee.
I know a lot about a little, and a little about a lot.
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ttha_aggie_09 said:
LEJ said:


Terrible guesses
Excellent hint and I am shocked no one picked up on it! Me and the kids find killdeer nests almost every year. A couple of times they have been in the playground mulch.
Used to work at a place that had a lot of rock roads and there would be 6 to 10 of these nests right in the road. I would take some core samples, about four inches in diameter and 18" or so in length and build a box around the nest. Trucks going along the roads would move to the side or pass over the nest without any damage to it. I now lease that property and still find a nest or two each year and do the same thing.
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Bluebirds hatching. This is our second clutch from this box this spring. All 5 fledged on the first batch. We'll see how this group does. Finger crossed.
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Bluebirds hatching. This is our second clutch from this box this spring. All 5 fledged on the first batch. We'll see how this group does. Finger crossed.
That's great. I have little ones in 2 of 3 boxes right now.
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11:29a, 5/1/20
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After a week on the chase, I finally shot a decent picture of this red bird. My research leads to a Northern Cardinal. A pair of these birds have been chasing each other across the yard for months. They've been very elusive, so getting close has been difficult.


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