07-03-2006, 04:38 AM
Aloha Birders!
From reading this email, I will appreciate the little feathered fliers around here more! I hear a lot of them in the morning (sometimes too early in the morning) but many times I can't see who's chirping. It is mostly chirping, not cooing doves or pigeons. Not too many cardinals, although occasionally I will hear them, but I don't know who the rest of the bird sounds belong to.
We have some sort of long leggedy owl back in the gulch. We saw him (her?) standing by the side of the road one evening and he had the most amazingly long legs for an owl. I always picture them with tiny feet for some reason. When standing, the tail is clear of the ground so that makes sense, but I never thought of them with such long legs. There are a couple of them there, although we only saw the one standing since most times they are flying around or sitting on a telephone pole.
Do birds move their areas? There have been several I'o around, then not as many, then more again. The owls seem to go from three or four to none then back again. There are the occasional bats flying around and the occasional few wild turkeys and kalij pheasants. Are they migratory or nomadic or just new ones moving in when the old ones move out?
At the bird feeder, we have three araucana and one cuckoo marans. There will be two white crested black polish and one giant australorp after they get big enough to be let out of the small chicken coop. So far they are all females, especially since chicken soup cures crowing. There is also a nesting box next to the window so they come eat their food and then leave eggs in the box. Pretty easy chicken keeping, but the wild birds don't seem to like the arrangement as much as throwing seed on the ground.
I was trying to get a pair of Pilgrim geese to eat the grass in the back yard and was searching for geese on the internet. There is a place in Okalhoma which sells Nene geese! I was amazed about that. Didn't find any Pilgrim geese, though, since apparently goslings are a springtime item.
If Nene geese are bought online from a place in Oklahoma are they then considered "domestic" geese and can they be kept in the back yard? Guess I should ask the fish and wildlife folks or someone like that, huh?
A hui hou,
Cathy
From reading this email, I will appreciate the little feathered fliers around here more! I hear a lot of them in the morning (sometimes too early in the morning) but many times I can't see who's chirping. It is mostly chirping, not cooing doves or pigeons. Not too many cardinals, although occasionally I will hear them, but I don't know who the rest of the bird sounds belong to.
We have some sort of long leggedy owl back in the gulch. We saw him (her?) standing by the side of the road one evening and he had the most amazingly long legs for an owl. I always picture them with tiny feet for some reason. When standing, the tail is clear of the ground so that makes sense, but I never thought of them with such long legs. There are a couple of them there, although we only saw the one standing since most times they are flying around or sitting on a telephone pole.
Do birds move their areas? There have been several I'o around, then not as many, then more again. The owls seem to go from three or four to none then back again. There are the occasional bats flying around and the occasional few wild turkeys and kalij pheasants. Are they migratory or nomadic or just new ones moving in when the old ones move out?
At the bird feeder, we have three araucana and one cuckoo marans. There will be two white crested black polish and one giant australorp after they get big enough to be let out of the small chicken coop. So far they are all females, especially since chicken soup cures crowing. There is also a nesting box next to the window so they come eat their food and then leave eggs in the box. Pretty easy chicken keeping, but the wild birds don't seem to like the arrangement as much as throwing seed on the ground.
I was trying to get a pair of Pilgrim geese to eat the grass in the back yard and was searching for geese on the internet. There is a place in Okalhoma which sells Nene geese! I was amazed about that. Didn't find any Pilgrim geese, though, since apparently goslings are a springtime item.
If Nene geese are bought online from a place in Oklahoma are they then considered "domestic" geese and can they be kept in the back yard? Guess I should ask the fish and wildlife folks or someone like that, huh?
A hui hou,
Cathy
Kurt Wilson