Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The biggest danger to birds here is domestic cats. Wantage has too many cats for wild birds to have much hope :-( Sent from my iPad On 10 Jul 2011, at 01:48, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I'm so sorry. We have been watching a mockingbird nest in our fig bush. > There are three new babies. The mockingbirds have been fighting a gallant > fight against the local hawk, even going so far as to sit on his head! I'm > afraid the hawk or a snake or a feral cat is going to get them soon. So > many dangers out there for tiny birds. I guess it's still survival of the > fittest. > > Tina > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> > wrote: > >> I was hoping to chronicle the growing up of the pigeon family on my >> mother-in-law's balcony... >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/**24844563 at >> N04/5879450337/in/**photostream<http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at >> N04/5879450337/in/photostream> >>> >> >> ...but it was not to be. The neighborhood crows found the nest. One of the >> two babies was killed and eaten a over a week ago. Yesterday the survivor >> suffered the same fate. >> >> I was laid up for the last week with a nasty case of bronchitis, so I >> haven't visited since the three day-old pictures. Now there's nothing to >> photograph. >> >> Real life ain't like Disney. >> >> --Peter >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information