To all:

As another perspective, after living all my life in apts, townhouses, I bought an acre plus, sold off a farm with zero cover. After some planting, etc., I had my first Titmouse and my second Phoebe this week. Took seven years but am up to 120 yard birds (many flybys / overhead of course)  Most are occasional, but some are now regular. 5 years for a Chickadee and 4 for a Cardinal. But Cardinals now pretty regular and Parids occasional. 

Mike OBrien
Fairfield, PA

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On Oct 14, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Andy Wilson <> wrote:

> ...has been an interesting discussion! Maryland has only slightly over one acre
> of land per resident. If you add on other development and road infrastructure
> that comes with development, it soon becomes apparent that if we all had large
> yards there would be no forest, wetland or grassland left. No room for most
> wildlife, but I suppose a few species would do well, cardinals and robins etc. 
> 
> I made a conscious decision to buy a house on a small (0.15 acre) lot. Surely
> sprawling development is a much bigger threat to bird life than birds striking
> windows? In that regard, there is a lot to be said for high density living. 
> 
> just another 2 cents.
> 
> Andy Wilson,
> Frederick