Birds are gone

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64. Yes--all those poisons

Besides the rodenticide secondary poisoning of the predators, hawks, owls, mtn lion, etc. The rest of that stuff wipes out the insect populations that provide food for the birds. Even the seed eaters feed bugs to their chicks when they're nestlings. So the bird populations are starving to death.

I've had several 'discussions' on my front porch with the pesticide salesmen that come door to door here. (SoCal) They are SO persistant--oh this spray is organic, or it won't harm the butterflies, it just kills spiders. I say that I want the spiders, and everything else that's in my all native front yard. It's feeding the birds! Just last week I had to literally close the door on the guy that would not stop talking, trying to sell me on his product. I had already repeated several times that I was not interested and I want the insects to be out there! Argh!!