tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929589052969709491.post745984059488525224..comments2023-10-29T03:31:04.521-04:00Comments on Bird Tweets: Beach havenFrance Paulsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06275125696736597888noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929589052969709491.post-48279347807134310222016-05-08T17:36:09.350-04:002016-05-08T17:36:09.350-04:00You bring up good points and I tend to agree with ...You bring up good points and I tend to agree with you about 'poisonous decoy' - we all know what happens to a rat that has eaten poison....sure, it dies but the raptor that eats it dies too! let's just hope that the effort put forth toward conservation and protection will work in the long run.France Paulsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06275125696736597888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929589052969709491.post-3448732210382519172016-05-04T09:29:41.611-04:002016-05-04T09:29:41.611-04:00Hi France-
SNPL have started nesting on Siesta, as...Hi France-<br />SNPL have started nesting on Siesta, as well. We believe Fish Crows were at least part of the reason for failure of most of their nests last spring. Marco island and Naples lost both Skimmer and Least Tern nests to the crows. The "brilliant" solution this year, and they have already done it on Siesta, is to leave mildly poisonous decoy quail eggs for the crows to eat. SUPPOSEDLY,<br />it will not harm crows or their nestlings, but will teach them not to predate SNPL nests. As a native Floridian, I cringe every time a nonnatural solution is introduced, but we shall see. Crows<br />got a right to live, too, and the SNPL nests are so camouflaged by nature that even a bird can't see them. My own personal observation is that the posts for the marked-off areas are giving the crows convenient perches from which to harass the nest colonies. Without them, there are no vantage points for them on the perfectly flat beach. Who knows? The birds do. Time will tell. Thanks for bringing us along, as always,<br />Patch Patch Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859015054104360440noreply@blogger.com