Bye Bye Birdies
Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Gold Plated Bird The real birds are leaving, gone by a third (Lyrics rejected by Janis Joplin) This is an Are Birds Going The Way of the White Rhino? story. We live in the mountains of New Mexico, and the birds are plentiful here. Our hummer feeders are swarmed. Our peanut platform hosts the Jays (Scrub and Stellar's) in great number. Eight seed feeders pump pounds of black oil sunflower and assorted grains into titmouse, towhee, nuthatch (pygmy and standard), wrens of many stripes, sparrows and doves and robins and hawks of many shades... I could go on and do the whole list, but you get the picture, LOTs of birds hereabouts. (The mighty ravens are my favorite, and we have two that come to one particular suet feeder.) Things aren't that good in Europe these days. Farmland Birds in France Are in Steep Decline NY Times 4.11.2018 Now this is scary. Massive drop off in