they may be dying from low body temperatures due to lack of enough food to
get them through the night.



On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Linda Phillips <linda_phillips1252 at msn.com
> wrote:

> Hi Tweeters,
>
> Today in the Kenmore Elem. School Arboretum I found a GCKI stuck in the
> crotch of a twiggy bush http://www.flickr.com/photos/88699795 at N03/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/88699795 at N03/>
> It was not impale. It appears to have just dropped dead and landed there.
> Most likely it had been there at least overnight because although it was
> not raining at the moment the bird was soaking wet. (I didn't have my
> camera with be at the time so it was a couple of hours later that I snapped
> these pictures, it had dried out somewhat by that time.) There is no
> obvious wounds on the bird.
> In October I found another seemingly unharmed but dead GCKI on the trail
> very close to this same spot.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion to what is happening to my neighborhood Golden
> Crowns?
>
>
> Linda Phillips
> Kenmore 98028
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