i have dozens of corvids (all of the aforementioned), and my
nuthatches/chickadees/siskins/grosbeaks don't have problems being
near/around my feeders... i'm sure almost all of them are breeding back in
my greenbelt, so perhaps it's an urban thang?

00 caren
http://www.ParkGallery.org
george davis creek, north fork


On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 14:32, Josh Hayes <josh.hayes at q.com> wrote:

> Tweets,
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> We?ve noticed a dramatic drop-off in yard birds this year, and we?ve also
> had a pair of crows successfully raise a kid in the back yard as well as a
> very prolific family of Steller?s Jays (mostly in the FRONT yard, but really
> all over the place).
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> I wonder if the two things are connected. Would the presence of relatively
> large, aggressive corvids breeding in our yard incline smaller passerines to
> go elsewhere? The adorable bushtit nest we had was destroyed ? I suspect one
> of the corvids of doing the deed. Not that there?s anything we can really do
> about it, but maybe try to chase off the crows next year if they start
> building another nest.
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> I miss my nuthatches!
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> -Josh Hayes, josh dot hayes at q dot com
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