Date: 10/28/24 6:04 pm From: Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] chickadee abundance
We have lots of Song Sparrows, as many as I have ever seen. But I wonder about avian flu. Has anyone heard about it affecting small passerines?
> On Oct 28, 2024, at 5:56 PM, HAL MICHAEL <ucd880...> wrote: > > About mid-year both species seemed to have vanished. A very few are showing up now. Both species. Don't think in banded any YOY. Actually, I think juncos and Steller's Jays are all I have seen YOY's. Not even Song Sparrow and we had lots around in previous years. > > > Hal Michael > Board of Directors,Ecologists Without Borders (http://ecowb.org/) > Olympia WA > 360-459-4005 > 360-791-7702 (C) > <ucd880...> > >> On 10/28/2024 5:36 PM PDT Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote: >> >> >> Hello tweets, >> >> Two of us, living several miles apart in Seattle, have noticed a substantial decline in Chestnut-backed Chickadees in our yards from their abundance this summer. Black-capped are still in the same numbers. Has anyone else seen this? >> >> Dennis Paulson >> Seattle >> _______________________________________________ >> Tweeters mailing list >> <Tweeters...> >> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
