It may very well be a migrating flock. Years ago I used to have 20 to 30
Band-tailed Pigeons on my feeders year round. Other folks used to report
their spring arrival. Nowadays I only get 3-4 and sometimes 6 birds and not
every day but year round.


Hans

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM Tom Benedict via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> A glorious flock of at least 25 BTPI arrived in the big cedar just below

> us here in Burien, WA this morning. These are extremely handsome birds and

> I've never seen them in this large of grouping before. Smaller flocks are

> regular visitors. According to bird web.org they are fairly common march

> through September and uncommon October through February. These might be

> migrating through?

>

> Tom Benedict

> Seahurst, WA

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