I've been noticing all of the Tweeters messages about Pine Siskins. I've also got a good flock of over one hundred hanging out at my feeders. I noticed what I thought were unusually high numbers at Christmas Bird Count time here in Olympia. Today, I did some noodling around with the Christmas Bird Count website and saw good evidence that Pine Siskin numbers are high this winter all over the Pacific Northwest, probably higher than at any other time in the past five years.

Kelly McAllister
Olympia, Washington