[Leica] Birds in the Bush

Tue Sep 1 05:15:59 PDT 2020

Fort Wayne actually has a lot of wildlife. Red squirrels, black squirrels, raccoons, opossums, chipmunks, robins, toads, tree frogs, sparrows, cardinals, crows, groundhogs, garter snakes, and rabbits are all extremely common in the city. In recent years, large numbers of red tailed hawks and peregrine falcons have moved in, too. A few days ago, my son and I counted more than 50 hawks circling in the sky above our neighborhood. We live in the city! Deer have been coming into the city in large numbers in the last few years, too.

All of the animals I have mentioned, except for the deer, are MORE common In the city than they are in rural areas! Deer are badly overpopulated in rural Indiana, which is what's pushing them into large cities like Ft. Wayne.

There is a vulture in my neighborhood, too. My cat, Sneaky, likes murdering for fun but will not eat his kills. I've seen him on several occasions leave a dead mouse or bird on the driveway, and then he sits and watches as the vultures comes and eats it! It's like the vulture is saying "Thanks, cat!" and the cat is responding "My pleasure....murder is fun, and my human slave doesn't like cleaning up my kills anyway!" I do appreciate the vulture's help on that!

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On 9/1/20, 7:58 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of imra at iol.ie> wrote:

    Not to shabby at all, Jayanand. The only fauna we have are native foxes, 
    the odd grey squirrel which has booted out our native reds, thanks to 
    carrying a disease that the greys are immune to, and rats and mice. The 
    squirrels have got wily enough after experiences with the local cats, 
    and stay high - one even runs along the top of my beech hedge while my 
    cat inwardly fumes. Unfortunately, having a cat has minimised the bird 
    life, even though they fly in and nest in the hedge - another source of 
    intense frustration for our cat who has tremendous patience, if a 
    complete lack of smarts. To be honest, it's the dumbest cat we've ever 
    had, and comparing to my son's Siamese would be like comparing an amoeba 
    to Einstein.

    On 01/09/2020 11:52, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
    > Instead of sparrows, we have an urban area full of pigeons...
    >
    > I jest. There are plenty of pigeons, but Chennai has plenty of waterbodies
    > full of sea birds and migratory birds - from thousands of Greater Flamingos
    > to the smallest prinias. Cannot really complain.
    >
    > >From my bedroom, which opens out into the Bay of Bengal, in addition to the
    > inevitable crows and pigeons, I have often spotted Painted Storks,
    > Open-billed Storks, Spot-billed Pelicans, Cormorants, Cattle and
    > Intermediate Egrets, Sunbirds, Koel, Mynahs, Kingfishers (Common,
    > White-throated and Pied), Black Kites, Shikra and many more. Unfortunately,
    > all a bit too small (I live on the fifth floor of a condo comfortably above
    > the surrounding vegetation), or a bit too far away to photograph - but good
    > to dust off the binoculars from time to time. At ground level, within the
    > residential complex lurks two grey mongoose and young, so no doubt, there
    > are plenty of snakes around. All in all, not too shabby in an urban area of
    > 8-10 million people!
    >
    > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/PLBS/
    >
    > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/WIndia/Vedbirds/
    >
    > Cheers
    > Jayanand
    >
    >
    >
    > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 3:51 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
    >
    >> Good ol' Monsanto and their ilk!?? Who needs birds anyway - all that
    >> twittering noise in the mornings.
    >> I hope they've put up plenty of benches to give depressed birdwatchers
    >> somewhere to sit down and cry.
    >>
    >> Nice shot, Chris
    >>
    >> Douglas
    >>
    >>
    >> On 01/09/2020 03:00, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
    >>> Nice to see sparrows. They have disappeared completely from Urban India,
    >>> which has been attributed to their feeding on pesticide infused grain.
    >>>
    >>> Cheers
    >>> Jayanand
    >>>
    >>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:54 AM Christopher Crawford <
    >>> chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> This row of bushes was COVERED in hundreds of sparrows! I photographed
    >>>> them in the evening shortly before sunset one day last week.
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> https://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=3312
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> Olympus OM-D E-M1 mark II and 45-150mm f4-5.6 Panasonic lens.
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> --
    >>>>
    >>>> Chris Crawford
    >>>>
    >>>> Fine Art Photography
    >>>>
    >>>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
    >>>>
    >>>> 260-437-8990
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
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