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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruff" data-source="post: 3666396" data-attributes="member: 114987"><p>Assuming you haven't had a major eco change locally, no clear cutting, etc, it's probably the weather this year. I find some years are more mixed than others in terms of species myself and this season, which has been bitterly cold since mid December, I basically get only three species (chickadees, northern junco and purple finch) as opposed to a possible dozen or so varieties in other years. I know that the whole east coast has been unusually cold as well, it could be that all of your less cold friendly birds (which are most of the birds you name) have flown to a warmer clime- easy for them to do after all.</p></blockquote><p></p>