The extraordinarily hot summer in the East Cascades seems to have
contributed to earlier-than-typical vertical migration of some summer
mountain species moving down into the Ellensburg area. The very hot summer
and early snowmelt -- and resultant drying of mountain meadows -- depressed
insect hatchings in much of the E Cascades. (It's possible that forest
fires contributed to pushing the birds around.) I last noticed a similarly
earlier-than-normal vertical migration in fall 2015, which was a very dry
summer after a paltry snowpack.

Steve Loitz
Ellensburg, WA

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:24 PM David B. Williams <wingate at seanet.com>
wrote:


> Greetings. We all know that climate change is jostling our seasons. I was

> wondering if there are particular birds that are being more impacted by the

> shifts, such as when flowers bloom, when bugs are out pollinating, hotter

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> Any thoughts would be great.

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> Thanks kindly,

> David

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