[Magdalen] What is as Rare....

[Charles Wohlers]

Last year was a hard winter (2014-15) in many areas of the East, south of 
here. Boston, for example had at least as much snow as we did. This isn't 
good for wildlife, especially birds like cardinals which don't migrate much. 
So the populations crash - but they should come back.

Up here, where the winter of 2014-15 wasn't all that unusual, we haven't 
seen any particular absence of any bird species (other than our resident 
woodcock, who we missed last year). Robins have been here for a couple of 
weeks now, you can hear Canada geese circling over our pond, and the first 
phoebe showed up today, right on schedule. Our feeder has attracted lots of 
pine siskins and goldfinches, neither of which we've seen here before.

So I suspect this is just temporary, and things should return to normal 
within a year or two.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What is as Rare....




Last year there was a marked reduction in  song birds of all  types here
in NE PA.  There were no regional robins, for example.   Ditto for
cardinals.


It is only slightly better this year with both species audible, and  yet not
near by.  Other songbirds seem sparse as well.

What is the world coming to?



David Strang.