Watching the food chain in action
By adamg - 1/27/11 - 11:37 am
John Halamka reports all the extra bird food he's put out and the heated bird bath have attracted plenty of birds to his Wellesley backyard this winter - and not just of the birdseed-eating variety:
I looked up and saw a cardinal eating safflower. I looked up again and saw a Red-Shouldered hawk eating the cardinal.
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At least it was not a hawk
At least it was not a hawk going after a small dog or child in Boston Common.
Are cardinals sustainable?
I hope that hawk has done his homework and isn't participating in over-consumption of a breed of bird in danger of falling below sustainable levels.
No joke
He should really be eating an all-plant diet. For himself...and the planet.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Haven't I taught you people anything? The market will take care of it!
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
At HBS,
they now teach about Free Market Predation.
Outside of Rome
... covering up predatory behavior on their flocks seems to be making them endangered.
The Archdiocese Of Boston
The only known place in nature where cardinals cover up chicken hawk tracks.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Not just Rome
If they don't get something worked out with Pujols right quick, the species of cardinal endemic to St. Louis, Missouri, might sink below the point of no return.
I saw the headline and
I saw the headline and thought for sure it was a Hi-Lo vs. Whole Foods thing.
Whit
Only themselves to blame
They could have easily used the plight of the cardinal population in Arizona since 2008 as a guide.
I refuse to believe that
I refuse to believe that someone in Wellesley has a heated bird bath.