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Watching the food chain in action

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 going after a small dog or child in Boston Common.

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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.

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He should really be eating an all-plant diet. For himself...and the planet.

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Haven't I taught you people anything? The market will take care of it!

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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they now teach about Free Market Predation.

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... covering up predatory behavior on their flocks seems to be making them endangered.

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The only known place in nature where cardinals cover up chicken hawk tracks.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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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.

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I saw the headline and thought for sure it was a Hi-Lo vs. Whole Foods thing.

Whit

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They could have easily used the plight of the cardinal population in Arizona since 2008 as a guide.

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I refuse to believe that someone in Wellesley has a heated bird bath.

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