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Re: Birds? What birds?
- To: BILL HILTON JR <bhilton@InfoAve.Net>, CAROLINA BIRDS <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Birds? What birds?
- From: Kate Finlayson <katefin@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 07:00:30 -0800 (PST)
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
This is the slow time of the year for bird feeding. I
work at Outdoor Bird Co. in Raleigh and we sell alot
less seed in Oct. and Nov. because there are so many
nuts, acorns, berries and seeds abundant in nature.
Not to mention, insects still being plentiful. So as
far as I know, it is normal every fall to see a lull
at the feeders. I am sorry that you have so few, but
maybe we are further north and getting more migrants
sooner. I still have no Purple finches, or siskins,
but the juncos are here in full force. The
red-breasted nuthatch, yellow-bellied sapsucker and
Hermit thrush are still here. I have seen a
ruby-crowned once, and the pine warblers are coming to
the peanut butter log and suet often. I have seen the
winter wren once and heard it several more mornings.
But very few cardinals are coming to the feeders,
mainly I see a few goldfinches, few chickadees, and
now the juncos.
Kate
--- BILL HILTON JR <bhilton@InfoAve.Net> wrote:
> CarolinaBirders . . .
>
> I'm just not sure whether to believe any of these
> reported sightings
> in the Carolinas of Purple Finches, Pine Siskins,
> Red-breasted
> Nuthatches, and the like.
>
> There are virtually NO birds at Hilton Pond near
> York SC, and haven't
> been for nearly two weeks. Even the resident
> Northern Cardinals and
> Carolina Chickadees have abandoned the sunflower
> seed feeders. I did
> capture a lone White-throated Sparrow yesterday-one
> I had banded last
> fall-and I think there was a Ruby-crowned Kinglet in
> a treetop this
> morning, but it could merely have been a bird-like
> leaf that my
> wishful thinking turned into a kinglet. (Oh, yeah,
> there WAS a Common
> Crow that flew over today, but he looked listless
> and lethargic and
> perhaps as if he had a Nile-like virus or
> something.)
>
> All I can figure is all the local birds are out
> spread-eagled
> somewhere, sopping up the 70-degree temperatures and
> UV radiation
> that have come with this phenomenally warm November.
>
> Anyone else in the Piedmont--or elsewhere--notice a
> dearth of avian
> activity at feeders or in your yards?
>
> Of course, the lack of visible bird like at my house
> could be
> correlated with the arrival of a miniature juvenile
> male
> Sharp-shinned Hawk late last month, a bird so small
> it can
> practically fly through my dense Trumpet Creeper
> patch without even
> slowing down. This guy would probably whomp up on a
> Whooping Crane if
> he had a chance.
>
> Lonely in York,
>
> BILL
>
> **********
>
> BILL HILTON JR.
> "The Piedmont Naturalist"
> Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
> 1432 DeVinney Road
> York, South Carolina 29745
> USA
>
> e-mail: <hilton@rubythroat.org>
>
> Voice & Fax: (803) 684-5852
>
> Operation RubyThroat Website:
> <http://www.rubythroat.org>
>
>
> "Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise
> or too busy to
> watch the sunset."
>
> BHjr.
>
> **********
>
=====
Kate Finlayson
N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
katefin@yahoo.com
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