The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for November 20, 2019

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    allen@home  almost 5 years ago

    Not only cats,but cars,and trucks,mean kids with bb-guns. You would not last very long walking around in the city.

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    wldhrsy2luv  almost 5 years ago

    A bird’s life is not easy. And, then they have to eat worms.

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    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    we’ve found that hawfinches are particularly dim about windows – we’ve tried all sorts of things to try to warn them about the glass, but they still insist on flying full speed into the windows and breaking their necks…

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    RabbitHole  almost 5 years ago

    Millions? Does someone walk around and count them? BTW, how many are killed by the windmills? The WaPo claims that up to nearly a billion birds are killed every year flying into windows in the US (mostly in homes and smaller buildings – not skyscraper windows). I suspect one of their fact checkers walked around the country counting them (NOT). I guess from the WaPo’s take, people need to tear down their homes, small businesses need to tear down their small buildings and we should all live in caves. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/stop-blaming-cats-as-many-as-988-million-birds-die-annually-in-window-collisions/2014/02/03/9837fe80-8866-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html .

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    Stevefk  almost 5 years ago

    Call Uber!

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    paul GROSS Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    That’s only if they make it through the wind turbines

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    t jacobs  almost 5 years ago

    My Neighbor used to get mad when he would see my cats hunting birds in his yard

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    Nubmaeme  almost 5 years ago

    Has anyone else noticed the three F’s in the word office in the first panel?

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    TurbosDad  almost 5 years ago

    “Offfice”? Three "f"s? This is serious, indeed!…

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    NaturLvr  almost 5 years ago

    Thanks, Adrian. Although it’s not practical to expect the world to do away with all windows, we can do some things to help our little feathered friends. Architects for these big business buildings need to get on board with this.

    For the rest of us little guys in our homes:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Droll-Yankees-Warning-Web-2-Decals-Prevent-Window-Strikes-Protect-Wild-Birds-/390386736289?trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs0

    It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little – do what you can. Sydney Smith

    Every little bit helps.

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    Mediatech  almost 5 years ago

    Evolution in action, the survivors will be the birds smart enough not to fly into windows.

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    cyndefrizzell  almost 5 years ago

    Offfice?

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    jmworacle  almost 5 years ago

    Why doesn’t P.E.T.A. and the A.S.P.C.A pool their resources to research for windows that will deter the birds from flying into them. Ignore the wind farms they’re politically correct. As long as they’re not in Robert F. Kennedy’s JR backyard that is.

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