I’ve been thinking of asking some questions too.
I track hummer feeder rates, retired but still a number crazed engineer, and ytd this year is emptying rate is running down 2/3 vs 2017, and last year was down a ways from the previous year. Frantic evening feeder use continues, but rates remain down. Using sugar water consumption to do abundance, my hummer flock is way down. Any thoughts or links to studies? I saw some comments on bird West Nile, but ??
My swallow flock is down too. I’ll check species tomorrow. Bluebirds and house wrens welcome the lower competition.
When I was up in the park mid May, birds seemed a week or two behind, anecdotally of course. Any other delayed appearance observations?
Bill Moore
Hoot Owl
Inkom
> On Jun 16, 2018, at 4:29 PM, lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]
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> Just an interesting observation. I usually have Tree Swallows being very common by this time of year. This season, however, Violet-Green Swallows are quite common with only a handful of Trees around. Haven’t figured out the reason. Thoughts?
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> Brian Carrigan
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