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a bipartisan gang of crows and scrub jays chased it off a minute or two later at top volume, yes

anyway folks, don’t be a coward and put out rat poison; you can torpedo an ecosystem that way ::fingerguns:: (just think about all the things that eat rats, or eat dead things, or eat rat poison)

(for that matter, sticky traps are from satan’s w glove box and should be outlawed but that’s a rant for another time)

Corvidae anti-Owl squad strikes again.

Sometimes I get a great list of birds from Merlin, but it turns out it’s just the northern mockingbirds doing their impressions. 

My whole lot is a hair shy of 1/10 acre, including the house. My yard is tiiiiiny. I can see the damn things; hell, they often join me on the deck 😅

Cool! I had a great horned owl calling just before dawn a couple of weeks ago. We don’t get them that often, it was so pretty

It’s a first for me, but I got a look at it, just briefly. I mean, I live in the city, yanno? A mosfly single family home neighborhood, yes - but a densely packed one. My rewilding brings all the birds to the yard, lol….

Same I’m in suburban Long Island, we get the usual suburbia critters, raccoons, possums. I’ve never seen the owls, only heard them while laying in bed. Then one day I found a screech owl fledgling that had fallen into my basement window well. He was so cute when he was wishing me a happy demise

A reminder that this is a big country - two of those five birds are not on my Life list. We have Great Horned Owls, and the Red-breasted Nuthatch and Dark-eyed Junco are common in our backyard. But the only hummingbirds we have are Ruby-throated, and the Blue Jay is our most common bird.

Dang! We get the stellars jays too, out here - so the jays are like, preps/goths/rednecks (blue/stellars/scrub) 😅

Our Big Three birds are American Robin, Blue Jay and Northern Cardinal. We also have billions of House Sparrows at our feeders, but that's a pest species.