I agree with Kelly. I have had many more siskins at my feeder this year than in the past 5 or so years. Siskin, purple finch, and varied thrush numbers are way up this year, while evening grosbeak and junco numbers are down. At least in my yard.

Mike Wile
Redmond, WA
mikewile at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly McAllister
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:44 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Pine Siskin irruption year.... here


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


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