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Published: 2019-09-21 15:14:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 325; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 0
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Hi, Well as you may have noticed,I'm not posting any bird pics. This is because I don't have any to take pics of....
Today I was out looking for butterflies and other creepy crawlies with my macro set up. I did find a neat butterfly (posting that pic ) and this Monarch butterfly chrysalis. Sadly this is the only one I have found this year... 2 years ago I found over 40 of them....doesn't bode well for these wonderful butterflies. I only found this one because 2 weeks ago I found a caterpillar, and noted the location. after searching the large field of Milkweed.. for 2 hours and coming up empty, I decided to go back and search that area where I found it. This was not far from that milkweed plant, so I figure it was the same caterpillar.
Now for a disturbing note.....
while out there walking the field, and the road coming and going back to the Jeep, I didn't see a single bird... yup not even the field Sparrows which were present last year....nothing...this was over 3 hours outside time...... I should have seen some birds,as the bushes are full of berries that in previous years always had birds feeding on them.
I have seen and noticed a steady decline in the bird numbers of my area,over the past few years, but this is really scary as they have all vanished.
here's a link to an article that helps explain what's going on.... www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/li…
it's an interesting read for sure
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The...lack of birds is concerning. To put it mildly.
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Hi, Yes indeed....and the bad part is ..it's Global...not just in my neck of the woods.
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Another great capture of a great find! I'd like to see something like this one day...maybe I should begin searching near milkweeds.
Sorry to hear about your birds. 
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Hi Erin,Thank you very much!
yeah I do hope the birds do make a come back....
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Yes very disturbing no birds here.. very short on insects too of all kinds.
There is a campaign in my area to plant wild flower seeds for next year so
I hope this will help bring them back.
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Hi Iris, Yeah it's a global problem.....I do hope the birds do bounce back..
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Beautiful capture George. I watched a thing on TV that was talking about how the bird population is down over all, I must say for myself Sparrows are about all I've seen at my bird feeders. I planted flowers to draw in Hummingbirds, but no luck with that.
Speaking of flowers, I have question. On the coloumbine do you cut the dead flower stems out, or just leave them? The ones I planted have been doing well, so I'm hopeful for next spring.
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Hi Tony, Thanks....
for the flowers, just cut off the tops, it looks like a pod, open this up, and spread the seeds inside....then you can take out the stems...I just usually leave the stems in the garden till the springtime and then remove them.
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Got it, I just wasn't sure with these.
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oohh you found one! Nice shot! Yes....not seeing any birds is disturbing...and a trend which sadly seems to be increasing all around. I really worry about the future of life as we know it on this planet.
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