Subject: Siskin question
Date: Dec 3 12:02:28 2002
From: C.B. - bolen_carolyn at hotmail.com


We had seen concentrations of Pine Siskins at our feeders with the last
sighting about 2 months ago. There were about 12 of them at a time, as far
as I could tell, regularly visiting the feeders daily.
We also had Gold-Crowns at our feeder seen last about 2 weeks ago. We
usually get about 6 or so that stay within the vicinity of our little yard.
We are in Ocean Park, Wa on the Long Beach Peninsula.
However these were the last times I saw them. I have not seen either species
since at our feeders and I haven't had time to go birding :-( so I don't
know how abundant they are on the Peninsula right now.

For the last few weeks mostly all I have coming to the feeders are tons and
tons of Juncos! They're everywhere! Dozens and donzens in our yard everyday!
I can't even count them all! :-) I don't mind though.
And of course some Chickadees and Red Brested Nuthatches. But that's about
it right now. The last exiting sighting we had was a Scrub Jay at our
feeders, seen only once for about 5 min.

From: "Jason Paulios" <jpaulios at hotmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: RE: Siskin question


>
> Tweeters, I was just going to send a message asking this same question. I
> can't even find ONE lately, let alone a concentration! I'm still hearing
> Goldfinches flying by, but no Siskin chatter. The Olympia CBC always has
> huge numbers of Siskins, so I guess they have less than two weeks to
arrive.
> I suppose this means we aren't going to get a repeat on the Redpoll
> irruption? I've also noticed that there seems to be a lack of
> Golden-Crowned Sparrows as well (at least locally).
>
>
> Jason Paulios
> JPaulios at hotmail.com
> Olympia, WA
>
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