Subject: [Tweeters] General trends reports?
Date: Aug 31 16:57:42 2009
From: Kathy Andrich - chukarbird at yahoo.com


Hi Doug,

I have all of your House Finches, in just the past week overrun with them. They spend as much time fighting and jockeying for position as eating. Plenty of Am Goldfinch too--with a few Bl-capped Chickadee and Red-breasted Nuthatch thrown in for good measure.

Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
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--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Douglas Daily <dfdpaf at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Douglas Daily <dfdpaf at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] General trends reports?
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 1:50 PM
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> p{margin:0px;}We've been a bit behind in
> our birding but I'm curious about local reports.
> We had a lot of hummers early in the summer, very few at
> the moment, is this a pattern?
>
> We had successful if small chickadee nesting output this
> year, but so far pretty quiet. Not unusual but I expect more
> action very soon.
>
> We have been severely low on house finches. Ok with juncos.
>
>
> We have a new (2nd year) pea patch north of us which is
> (should be) attracting more birds. I'll try and make an
> effort to bird over there, but I would expect good birds
> over there would spill over to our yard which has been a
> reliable source of food and water for many years.
>
> Just curious, what people are seeing in their immediate
> area compared the past.
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