And oh by the way I manage a small colony of feral cats near me and in the two years I have done so. They have not killed ONE BIRD. Not ONE!! They are far more interested in mice and squirrels And they know they are getting a square meal and do not needto hunt Educate humanity. And don't take it out on a cat Amen. I'm done Mona cavallero Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

How do you know that, Mona? Feral cats are second only to collisions with windows in the toll they take annually on bird populations with feral cats being responsible for an estimated 500 MILLION bird deaths here in the US every single year. Do you follow each and every cat around day and night to see what they are eating or surgically go into their stomachs to find out what the contents are? Feral cats are killers, nonnative and not necessary here. I hate to see 500 million of the organisms I love most of all, the ones that bring myself and many others around me countless hours of enjoyment and happiness, dying every year from something that is so easily preventable. To learn more about feral cats and bird mortality click here: http://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-content/uploads/Bird_mortality_chart.jpg or here: http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/cats/index.html Alex Burdo Fairfield On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:50 PM, mcavallero1@comcast.net wrote: > And oh by the way I manage a small colony of feral cats near me and in the two years I have done so. They have not killed ONE BIRD. Not ONE!! They are far more interested in mice and squirrels > And they know they are getting a square meal and do not needto hunt > Educate humanity. And don't take it out on a cat > Amen. I'm done > Mona cavallero > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > _______________________________________________ > This list is provided by the Connecticut Ornithological Association (COA) for the discussion of birds and birding in Connecticut. > For subscription information visit http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org