OT red wings

sdc eastern ia · Mar 22, 2013

I'm shocked at the low number of red wing blackbirds that came back. Anyone else notice? There used to be hundreds of them now only a few. Hope they don't go the way of the Monarch. BT and pesticide got most of them I think. And yes I know we have to eat.

JayinNY · Mar 22, 2013

Iv been seeing them here in eastern NY also. Not huge numbers of them, but there around.

Wheat Farmer · Mar 22, 2013

We have about the same number here in Mid state Colo. 7190" elev. If I'm out irrigating they just follow me up and down the ditch. We have a wet land and they love the cat tails.

paul · Mar 22, 2013

Was about zero last night, nothing has come back yet, or if it did it is very sorry and hunkered down somewhere..... High is supposed to get near freezing today, haven't seen that in a while.

Paul

RayP(MI) · Mar 22, 2013

Not here yet, wife did point out a fat robin in the back yard, poking amongs the little bare ground, between the snowbanks. Said it was a "big fat robbin." Replied it was a big STUPID robin!"

Mike M · Mar 22, 2013

Read somewhere that the overpopulation of cats running around is doing a number on the birds too !

Mike (WA) · Mar 22, 2013

Bird population is increasing at our place, now that the cat is getting old and prefers sleeping on the bed all day to going out and terrorizing the countryside. Can't say as I'll mourn the day she takes the final step- have never liked that cat, and its mutual.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 22, 2013

They have been slow to return this year here in western Illinois. They are usually the true sign of spring so i guess as we can tell outside spring is not here yet. You can see robin's about anytime, but the redwings are the true signs of spring. There were a quite few here a week ago, but have not seen very many since. I really haven't noticed any decrease the last several year's, in fact there were probably more last year than normal. Maybe they just congregrate in different areas some years.

Larry NEIL · Mar 22, 2013

Not a problem here...they come in a bunch of about 50-60 and clean my bird feeder out in a few hours!
My favorite cats are "sailcats". After they get hit on the road in the summer and run over a few hundred times, ya scoop 'em up with a snow shovel and throw them like a frizbee

teddy52food · Mar 22, 2013

When I saw the post, I thought you were talking about shoes.

Brian G. NY · Mar 22, 2013

Funny, I had one Red-winged Blackbird here for about a week in the first part of January. Never saw that before!
They come every year sometime between March 1st and 15th; they came on the 11th this year.
When I hear them, I know spring is really here.....well, maybe not this year! LOL
I have about a dozen around here (50 miles West of Albany) and I just got off the phone with a friend of mine in Rochester and he says he has about 40 at his feeders and they"re eating him out of house and home!

Geo-TH,In · Mar 22, 2013

On the news last night they had an article about declining bird population caused by the drought.

rrlund · Mar 22, 2013

I thought it was hockey.

rrlund · Mar 22, 2013

The cranes are back. My permit's good til the 31st. The nephew depopulated three of'em Sunday.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 22, 2013

They came back to NW. Pa. like aways, Maybe there something round you they don"t like.

Dieselbreath · Mar 22, 2013

When I had too many cattails around the pond (still do, it's a constant battle) I had many, many redwing blackbirds. Seems they love cattails.

Ultradog MN · Mar 22, 2013

Yup.
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gtractorfan · Mar 22, 2013

Their cousins- blackbirds without red spots on their wings- have shown up in big numbers again. This morning when I went to town there was a bunch of dead blackbirds laying on and near the road by an intersection. Wonder what got them, kind of suspect they shorted out the power line, but I don't know how a group of them could.

IrvIA · Mar 22, 2013

You can hunt CRANES???? Why? Are they considered a pest in your area?
Irv

GeneMO · Mar 23, 2013

Dirty little secret. The huge windmills are killing birds like crazy. And not just any birds. Endangered eagles, falcons, etc.

But we can't talke about that. Wind power is good, right?

Gene

scotc · Mar 23, 2013

Too many of them things here. The day they came in I came home to find the side of the house covered in white specks. The cats have been eating well.

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