[whitecrow]

Originally Posted by SkyWatcher

Oh, and birds keep flying into the windows, despite the fact that we have things on the glass to warn the birds that it is glass.

The behavior of birds concerns me because of their sensitivity to magnetic influences and other factors in the environment that aren't obvious to us (think canaries in coal mines). Only three years ago I counted over 60 species of birds in and around our creek. This year I have found 12, maybe fifteen. I haven't seen the snowy egrets for three years, nor herons. There's still a great egret that visits now and then, but there used to be a nesting pair. There are still crows and mallards and small finches and sparrows. Not near as many hawks. You get the picture.