----------
From: William Kaufman <beaux at u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:04:26 -0400
To: <MurrayH at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] where do they go?


This summer no Flickers, Downies or Hairies. An occasional Stellars and
House finch.
Only Towhees, Chickadees, Juncos and a Nuthatch regularly. Several years
ago they were all here in numbers.
Bill Kaufman
Woodinville WA



on 9/22/06 10:15 PM, MurrayH at aol.com at MurrayH at aol.com wrote:

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?
-----

Dennis Paulson

1724 NE 98 St.

Seattle, WA 98115

206-528-1382

dennispaulson at comcast.net

=

_______________________________________________
Tweeters mailing list





Tweeters at u.washington.edu
http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters". . .
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

_______________________________________________
Tweeters mailing list
Tweeters at u.washington.edu
http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20060923/378869bd/attachment.htm