[Shiny]

Originally Posted by Scarebird

We get hummingbirds mostly, but a roadrunner and her two children hunt frequently in our yard.

The chicks keep away but momma will allow me to give her water and snacks.

Just curious - what is a snack for a roadrunner?

I saw a few when visiting my son in AZ and thought they were fascinating.

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Originally Posted by Scarebird

We get hummingbirds mostly, but a roadrunner and her two children hunt frequently in our yard.

The chicks keep away but momma will allow me to give her water and snacks.

Now that would be neat; feeding a roadrunner. Sitting on the back porch I've had hummingbirds fly right up to my face and hover there looking at me, and then fly off. I'm thinking they may be ones we've rescued who flew into the garage and couldn't get out because they were bumping up against a window or up against the ceiling and we got them to land on a broom and walked them outside.

[Scarebird]

Originally Posted by Shiny

Just curious - what is a snack for a roadrunner?

I saw a few when visiting my son in AZ and thought they were fascinating.

They are Jurassic looking buggers...

She seems to be fond of shredded ham, but it cannot be cold.

[fyrffytr1]

I have about 1.5 acres minus the house and shop that I am slowly turning into a bird and pollinator habitat. I live in a suburban residential area and am fortunate to have a variety of birds and bugs. I have blue jays, red birds red and yellow finches, brown thrashers, wrens sparrows and hummingbirds. i also have several different butterflies, moths and assorted bugs. I also have squirrels, rabbits, deer, raccoons, opossums, black snakes copper heads and occasionally a water moccasin. It has been several years since I encountered a rattlesnake.
I only had to dispatch one copperhead and one moccasin for getting too close to the neighbors children. If I can, I relocate them to the swamp a couple hundred yards down the drainage easement that runs across the back of our properties.
The neatest visitor I had was a 4 foot long alligator that I loaded up in a plastic tote and relocated him to the local WMR with the blessing of the DNR.
Another interesting visitor was a hawk that landed on a section of split rail fence around one of our flower beds. I was able to get this shot just as he left. Sometimes the squirrels get confused about who has the right of way.

[fyrffytr1]

S0me more visitors The snake in the last two pictures will poll over and play dead when threatened. The water moccasin resides in the swamp and rarely ventures up to my yard unless there is a lot of water in the ditch.

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Some more.

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Last ones for tonight.

[77 TRASHCAN]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hamlin

I just wish these filthy bastards would die off or go home.

Our city parks with ponds are overrun with geese. We also have a small lake at the edge of town where most of t he geese congregate, buy they won't all stay there. They insist on coming to in town ponds. It doesn't help that folks feed them.
Had an article on the local paper a year ago, or so. Article said geese don't like grape Kool-aid......
Didn't say anything else though..
I wondered if a guy needs to put some grape Kool-aid in a super soaker squirter gun? Kids would enjoy that task...lol
Or put dry kool-aid in with bread and toss that to them
??? I don't know, but will keep asking till I get an answer. The geese don't just hang around the in town ponds, they get up in people's yards and do their thing, like they own the place.