Date: 12/9/25 11:14 am From: Bernie Carr (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Reminder: Fall season reports for Chat Briefs
Folks - Winter finches often migrate slowly due to factors such as snow cover. Now that northern fields are covered with deep snow, redpolls are on the move south. Evening grosbeaks moved into the northwestern Adirondacks already this "fall". Last winter they were few and far between. This fall in the Triad, we have a nice early invasion of purple finches. And hopefully, folks will be able to see and hear purple and house finches together this winter. Bernie CarrLewisville, NC On Dec 9, 2025 11:44 AM, Harry LeGrand <carolinabirds...> wrote:
Fellow birders, Now that the four-months-long Fall Season is over (August-November), as The Chat's Briefs for the Files editor, I would like to hear from any of you who have not posted important records for the season already on eBird. The great majority of the Briefs over the past decade have come from the editor perusing the eBird database, species by species, and picking out the most signficant reports. This is tedious (looking at over 400 Species Maps!), but I need to wait for a few more days to start so that any and all rarity sightings (as seen on the Carolina Bird Club Sightings page) have hopefully been approved as valid. But, a few of you might have some important records that were not on eBird, so please let me know what notable birds you saw. What I most want to hear from folks is their observations, or more likely their LACK of observations/records, of "winter finches". A couple of months ago we thought there might well be a good fall or winter season for Pine Siskins, maybe Red-breasted Nuthatches, and perhaps a few Evening Grosbeaks and Red Crossbills (away from the mountains). Yes, the less erratic Purple Finches have been trickling into the Carolinas in the last month, but the others seem to be nearly lacking -- at least as I write this on December 9! I'd like to hear from folks by December 20, if possible. Again, almost all of you submit eBird reports, so those data are already available to me on the website, and so a big "Thank You" for posting results. Harry LeGrand, Briefs for the Files editorRaleigh
