Date: 10/28/24 7:41 pm From: Shelf Life Community Story Project via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] chickadee abundance
I live in Seattle's Central District. We have A LOT of Black Capped
Chickadees right now and had more Chestnut Backed than usual over the
summer.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:17 PM Doug Santoni via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> I have been very concerned over the past few weeks by the absence of both
> Chickadee species and Red-breasted Nuthatches at my backyard feeders. I’m
> in the Seattle area not far from the Arboretum. I’ve been happy to see lots
> of House Finches, Golden-crowned Sparrows, Song Sparrows, and an occasional
> Spotted Towhee. But I hope the chickadees and nuthatches will come back!
>
> Doug Santoni
> Seattle, WA
> Dougsantoni at gmail dot com
>
>
> > On Oct 28, 2024, at 6:02 PM, HAL MICHAEL via Tweeters <
> <tweeters...> wrote:
> >
> > About midsummer all the small passerines seemed to essentially vanish
> from our yard. We have mixed conifer and deciduous so the two chickadees
> were other common, along with Songs Sparrow and dark-eyed Junco. We
> normally have quite a few Purple (especially) and House finches. All down.
> >
> > Last year was fairly low, but not this bad.
> >
> >
> > 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 5:58 PM PDT Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson...>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
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