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Perragrande (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-07-09 02:59 AMOriginal message The birds are GONE from Houston and nobody notices. I was in Houston during Hurricane Ike.My house was not damaged badly.The only birds I hear are the yellow crowned night herons in the evening. They are big.And sometimes a hawk. There are NO little birds: No sparrows, chickadees, and such.NO blue jays. No mockingbirds. All the grackles are in shopping center parking lots. It's really spooky. I think they all got killed.
Dover (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-07-09 03:17 AMResponse to Original message 1. That must feel so strange... I wonder if people even hear the birds....until they're gone.
jobycom (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-07-09 04:31 AMResponse to Original message 2. Happened in Mississippi after Katrina, too. The birds lost their infrastructure, too. No food, not nesting areas. It all came back, though.
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-07-09 06:39 AMResponse to Original message 3. You can have the grackles roosting in my tree if you want The tree is over my driveway and my truck looks like a guanomobile. I can come back from the carwash and before I even get out of the truck-SPLAT!
johncoby2 (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-07-09 09:19 AMResponse to Original message 4. Good catch! We have a bird feeder out back and all I have seen are the squirrels since Ike.
merci_me (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-07-09 12:45 PMResponse to Reply #4 5. Just the opposite here We feed the birds and squirrels and still have tons of birds, from the littlest finches and wrens to the large doves, purple martins and blue jays, to everything between. But the squirrel population isn't what it use to be, though we had seven in the yard begging for peanuts the other day, since the storm, usually it's just the same four. They come right to the door and bump the window. Sometimes I have to put my foot out to keep them from hopping in. A friend is involved in possum rescue (yikes) and became involved in trying to rescue some of the hundreds of baby squirrels around here, whose nests came down with the trees. She tells me trying to feed baby squirrels is a VERY time consuming job, but now all they were able to rescue have been taken to the appropriate areas and set free. The four who hange out in our yard are all the same size. They were very small after Ike, but are thriving. One thing we've noticed is a huge influx of butterflies since Ike. I wonder if they came from the more coastal areas. When they started showing up, a week or so after Ike, we went out and bought more of the plants the caterpillars feed on. They immediately began defoliating them, then going into the chrysalis stage, then more beautiful butterflies. Thankfully the weather is holding and the plants are all in bloom again, so the cycle repeats.
I dunno. I'm about 70 miles north of Houston and we got hit pretty hard by Ike. We have TONS of birds, squirrels, friggin deer, pelicans, coons, Heck ... all kinds of wildlife. Of course, I don't live in an alternate reality.KC
Damn the VRWC Hurricane Machine for killing all the birdies!
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Someone put the wrong settings in!
Someone needs to reprogram it so it knows that; Moonbat does not equal Bird.KC
