10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds. This is it, it’s called safflower seed.

2011 184

2011 Woodpeckers Blackbirds Deer 184

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Over the years Jethro approached rabbits as if they should be his friends, but they usually fled. Jethro and the Bunny. Jethro the dog.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

You typically do not find a bird this naked or featherless outside of the nest unless there has been a storm or the nest has been attacked by predator like a raccoon, chipmunk, squirrel or corvids. When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest.

Fox 264

Fox Birds Raised Geese 264