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Gaye Horn
Guest
We have noticed a serious change in what we have in our back yard this year.
Normally at this time we would be feeding about 300 birds daily and they would include a Orphaned Black Bill Magpie and several Steller's Jays.. along withabout 60 American Goldfinch, similar numbers of House finch and Juncos. We also have wintering Song Sparrows and Black capped Chickadees.. Pine Siskins, Downey woodpeckers, Nothern Flickers, robins and waxwings going through along with redpolls both hoary and common arriving now... we also have a couple of American kestrels and a sharp shin hawk and a coopers.. a few redtails fly by and we have a grouping of mountain ravens in this vicinity..
This year our numbers are drastically reduced with no waxwings showing up at all... maybe 12 -20 amgf and same with the house finch .. fewer then 10 pine siskins and the jays are no shows for days on end.. I have not seen a woody in along time and no ravens either..a few robins on the yew berries and absolutely no flickers anywhere!
Now we are ten degrees warmer then normal this year due to a El Nino but the Christmas Bird count for the areas around my end of the Okanogan Valley are down seriously low. In fact lower then ever in the last ten years.
Anyone else noticing a big change in their areas?
Normally at this time we would be feeding about 300 birds daily and they would include a Orphaned Black Bill Magpie and several Steller's Jays.. along withabout 60 American Goldfinch, similar numbers of House finch and Juncos. We also have wintering Song Sparrows and Black capped Chickadees.. Pine Siskins, Downey woodpeckers, Nothern Flickers, robins and waxwings going through along with redpolls both hoary and common arriving now... we also have a couple of American kestrels and a sharp shin hawk and a coopers.. a few redtails fly by and we have a grouping of mountain ravens in this vicinity..
This year our numbers are drastically reduced with no waxwings showing up at all... maybe 12 -20 amgf and same with the house finch .. fewer then 10 pine siskins and the jays are no shows for days on end.. I have not seen a woody in along time and no ravens either..a few robins on the yew berries and absolutely no flickers anywhere!
Now we are ten degrees warmer then normal this year due to a El Nino but the Christmas Bird count for the areas around my end of the Okanogan Valley are down seriously low. In fact lower then ever in the last ten years.
Anyone else noticing a big change in their areas?