Posted: Sat Aug 06, 22 12:48 pm Post subject: extreme heat event casualties
75% casualties among the sparrows
100% casualties among the two closest blackbird families, the local area has almost none when there were many
100% casualties among the wrens
very high casualties among the assorted small birds
50% casualties among the woodies, ditto townies
silent summer
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8897 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
as a little good news, the 7 sparrows have been joined by 5 from the next flock along, 2 of whom look like ones who grew up and moved to a new colony last year
food water safety in numbers and plenty of available real estate
i forgot, approx 40% casualties among the local jackdaw community, my two "pet" ones are ok
the sammisons were in a nice damp mouse castle bunker and seem fine
invertebrate world, hard to tell so far, the mix changes week by week and year by year(developing ecosystem with invertebrate munchers)
the soil based ones seem fine, it was cold watered a few times
the crevice based ones are ok in some places
the exposed on plants ones might have been toasted, not many foliage based bugs and beetles at the mo
when it was very hot, and humid in the yard, quite a few were happy in the carboniferous and did a week's life in an afternoon
Rather hard to tell casualties here. There are a lot of pigeons around, and I understand the peregrine has been seen locally, which explains the tap dancing on the roof of the trailer, as they keep low when it is on the hunt. Not too many butterflies in the garden, but as it is dry the buddliah won't be producing much.
it seems the survivors of the two most local(and related)sparrow colonies have teamed up to create a 2/3 size colony
15 adults and a handful of juveniles, no recent fledglings and there should be dozens
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