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BruceH said:

What about Big Red!?.../QUOTE]

Big Red arrived one day ahead of schedule last year, Nov. 9, but she wouldn't come down and eat her "chickie" when I called her. She apparently had dined elsewhere.

I saw her twice more, being chased by crows in the park, and I haven't seen her since. Penn State set off explosives to chase the crows off campus (they are smart birds so they like to hang around campus and sit in on classes, however lacking an anal sphincter, that can get kind of messy).

This started in mid Feb. last year, and Big Red stopped coming around, because the park was infested with crows, which end up in the surrounding townships including mine. I feed them bread, cereal, and peanuts so they don't descend en masse on my backyard like a black cloud and consume all the black oil sunflower seeds I put out for the birds and squirrels in the winter. They also knock down my suet feeder and eat the suet.

With all those crows, Big Red, who usually hides in nooks and crannies in the trees from crows that are harassing her, apparently flew the coop.

While I miss feeding her and taking photos and videos, I'm relieved because she took up a lot of my time since she didn't always come down right away to eat her "chickie" (raw chicken or turkey), particularly on overcast days because it was dim in the morning and I think she was worried about the owl, who also takes up residency in the woods near the park. Plus, if she failed to show that morning, I'd have to keep going out looking for her to make sure didn't make a meal of my squirrel friends.

She'd meet up with her mate, and they would disappear for a week, so I got a mid-winter break.

By mid-January of last year, we had 125 crows in the nearby woods, too many to feed. No doubt the squirrels and song birds got short changed with the seeds and peanuts I put out for them, but this year, they are fattening up, which is good because it was only 10*F this morning, and with 2-3" snow cover, they couldn't get at their buried peanuts and acorns.

My $53.99 duck boots from Cabela's came in handy this morning walking on the icy snow cover when I went out to feed the birds and squirrels. Good investment!

Brock

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brocknroller said:

BruceH said:

What about Big Red!?.../QUOTE]

Big Red arrived one day ahead of schedule last year, Nov. 9, but she wouldn't come down and eat her "chickie" when I called her. She apparently had dined elsewhere.

I saw her twice more, being chased by crows in the park, and I haven't seen her since. Penn State set off explosives to chase the crows off campus (they are smart birds so they like to hang around campus and sit in on classes, however lacking an anal sphincter, that can get kind of messy).

This started in mid Feb. last year, and Big Red stopped coming around, because the park was infested with crows, which end up in the surrounding townships including mine. I feed them bread, cereal, and peanuts so they don't descend en masse on my backyard like a black cloud and consume all the black oil sunflower seeds I put out for the birds and squirrels in the winter. They also knock down my suet feeder and eat the suet.

With all those crows, Big Red, who usually hides in nooks and crannies in the trees from crows that are harassing her, apparently flew the coop.

While I miss feeding her and taking photos and videos, I'm relieved because she took up a lot of my time since she didn't always come down right away to eat her "chickie" (raw chicken or turkey), particularly on overcast days because it was dim in the morning and I think she was worried about the owl, who also takes up residency in the woods near the park. Plus, if she failed to show that morning, I'd have to keep going out looking for her to make sure didn't make a meal of my squirrel friends.

She'd meet up with her mate, and they would disappear for a week, so I got a mid-winter break.

By mid-January of last year, we had 125 crows in the nearby woods, too many to feed. No doubt the squirrels and song birds got short changed with the seeds and peanuts I put out for them, but this year, they are fattening up, which is good because it was only 10*F this morning, and with 2-3" snow cover, they couldn't get at their buried peanuts and acorns.

My $53.99 duck boots from Cabela's came in handy this morning walking on the icy snow cover when I went out to feed the birds and squirrels. Good investment!

Brock

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Brock:

You do have a predicament. When dealing with pests a nice pellet gun
can be a nice thing to have around.

You can choose what you consider a pest. o

Jerry

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If I win the Powerball I will buy everyone on Bird Forum a Swarovski 10x50 SV including you Brock. Then they will know what it is like to have the best binocular in the world.

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[email protected] said:

If I win the Powerball I will buy everyone on Bird Forum a Swarovski 10x50 SV including you Brock. Then they will know what it is like to have the best binocular in the world.

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brocknroller said:

Big Red arrived one day ahead of schedule last year, Nov. 9, but she wouldn't come down and eat her "chickie" when I called her. She apparently had dined elsewhere.
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Brock

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