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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gretchen" data-source="post: 1632705" data-attributes="member: 70591">Unsuccessful guess at weather and birdsI've been watching weather (esp. wind) more carefully recently trying to estimate the more likely times to see birds.Well, last night was rainy and a new front (from the north) has been coming in for a day and a half, so I thought I should go out this morning and see if anything had been blown down and was looking for breakfast.  It was cold (gone down probably 15 or more degrees Celsius in 36 hours) and no sign of the sun, and no sign of birds almost.  I waited until 7:30 a.m. thinking it would be too cold/dreary for them earlier, but I guess I should have gone earlier or later.  Even the bulbul flock required hunting down - they were just starting to get active after 8:00 it seemed.  The sparrows were hardly in evidence and the magpies subdued as well.  Well, I can't blame them - very unpleasant to so suddenly have such cold weather.Perhaps its getting late for the small migrants I might see in the trees and there are mostly just cranes to wait for - as the guys down the road in Beidaihe are doing?</blockquote>