..Just a question?.Since i see very little Mass of any kind
including acorns,do you think the flock will move,I mean it has to be tough on them this year around here,...I see nothing not even a Paa-Paa seed..do to dry weather i guess..what do you think Veterans...

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Edited by - totoe on 09/17/2002 08:25:02

Totoe up our way mast crops are scarce too.I've been seein lots of birds out in the fields,all times of the day.right now they are workin over the bugs pretty hard.Soon as the farmers pick the corn they'll be workin it.I am findin some wild cherries and wild grapes.First week of the fall season I like huntin the wild grapes.

..Around here Jal the wild grapes are falling unripe,it pretty
bad,here my friend....

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Tot,dont know if i'm any help here seeing as our flocks are quite aways a way from each other!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>But in lean years around these parts,(which by the way this year isn't lots of acorns)the birds turn really to the green grasses,berries, grapes,and as the temperatures become cooler in the morning the grasshoppers react slower presenting easy eating!The fields and creek bottoms is where most of this type of forage is found around here so consequently thats where the birds seem to be consentrated!<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>One other thing too is we have vast quanities of orchard land that has a variety of friuts and nuts grown.Olives,prunes,almonds,and walnuts, are predominate and we have flocks that live in these orchards all year long!Some of these birds can weigh quite a bit more than other birds that aren't orchard living!I guess thats what you call &quot;living high on the hog&quot;!! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!

I'VE seen birds servive winters by eating just bittersweet and barberries in bad winters here in MASS.

ACORNS, ACORNS, and more ACORNS is what I usually find in the Crop of a South West Missouri bird with the occasional grasshopper, berries, and other bugs from thier fall scratching.

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In Indiana they eat about anything that grows on the ground.Our crops are very dry around here also. I have seen them eat acorns, grass, corn, and even soybeans.