Comments on: Jason, the UPS Driver: What Brown Did For Me! https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2013/07/05/jason-the-ups-driver-what-brown-did-for-me/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Bill Richardson https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2013/07/05/jason-the-ups-driver-what-brown-did-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-549169 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:29:14 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=15081#comment-549169 In reply to Bob Pelkey.

Interesting. 14 kittens certainly is promising although I have no idea what the survival rate is. I am in northern Illinois during the summers and panthers (we call them mountain lions here) are starting to be reported along with wolves. A mountain lion was killed by police in the city of Chicago a couple of years back and traced to South Dakota. A wolf was killed by a car just north of us near the Wisconsin line. When I was growing up here, we had no deer, coyotes or geese. Now all 3 are abundant. Now sandhill cranes are nesting in the area. Nature is really resilient if given half a chance. I wonder if mountain lions and wolves will gain a foothold here in Illinois?

]]> By: Bob Pelkey https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2013/07/05/jason-the-ups-driver-what-brown-did-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-548823 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:57:50 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=15081#comment-548823 How cool is that! Both parents are certainly nearby sharing feeding responsibility. The chicks might be a mere few days old or less if still at the nest. It appears you may have masked the other chick in the upper right corner. The wood is believed to provide shade to the nest in consideration of its creation according to my Sibley Guide of behavior for the species. I’m surprised you didn’t bring your arsenal of gear to the nest with confidence you would see what you did. There have been 11 known Florida Panther deaths this year through 6/29/2013 (eight due to impact by vehicles and three from “intraspecific aggression” according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission). There are 14 known kittens to date this year within the parks of the I-75 and US 41 Naples to Miami corridor as noted by the same source. There are no kitten deaths noted.

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