In a message dated 9/21/2006 2:38:37 AM GMT Daylight Time,
dennispaulson at comcast.net writes:

Today my yard was empty of birds, except for the omnipresent Steller's Jays,
the occasional flicker and hummingbird, and a solitary Rock Pigeon. I never
saw a chickadee or nuthatch or House Finch come to the sunflower seeds, nor a
towhee or Song Sparrow at the millet, sights that have been frequent during
this month. I would have thought that on a cool, wet day like today they
would need these quick and easy sources of food even more than during the summer,
but the drop-off in activity was shocking.


Has anyone else noticed this today or at other times? Or did I just have a
Sharp-shinned Hawk perched on my roof all day?

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
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I'd like to blame the Sharpshin or the young Cooper's that visits.
Among the Band-tailed, we have a young one obviously dying. And yet, we
still have nuthatches, chickadees, towhees and finches and, I think some
goldfinches at the feeder. Guess it's because we're further south and they haven't
decided to leave just yet.
Today was a banner day!! Almost everything showed up (near the
compost), and elsewhere in our conifer/deciduous woods. Betty, who has very acute
hearing ,said that the only missing birds were our waxwings ..?.. Has
anyone else noticed the absence of these birds? We usually have them overhead or
in the treetops, especially when the Juneberries (our northwestern species of
Amelanchier*) are abundant.
Any idea why their absence? M.

*reference from "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" by Euell Gibbons


(Mrs.) Murray Hansen
Graham, WA
253-847-4087