Birds, What we are not watching for: Do you still have birds of any kind in your area?

nope. we've got more buzzards, jays, egrets, collared doves, blackbirds, robins and great tits than we know what to do with.

i noticed the number of birds this past spring down significantly around my house in south jersey, the number is always down in the winter months, but i hardly see any nowadays and i walk like 5 miles a day.

I just looked again...
It is the warmest part of the day presently. Very cold in our area. Usually, I would see lots of activitie.
Only the pigeons flying and I hear two birds in the far distance chirping.

It is very quiet.

We've got more Canada geese around here than I'm used to seeing, and the finches that live in my trees seem to be doing fine.

It's spotty here.. Just had a ton of the orange beak thorn somethings come through. I made the comment a month ago about it being well into the time when our yards should be FULL of black birds. Still haven't seen more than 3 or 4 together this winter.

Good to hear. Thank you for sharing.

Pretty normal here. Don't have as many Dark Eye Junco's at my feeder this year, come to find out their about three houses down at their feeder.

no birds here havent been any at my feeders for two days now.

What I found abnormal this summer is that crows were flying by groups of 100 or more, as opposed to a dozen max in the past.

See, it is the kind people who actually put the feeders out who really are the first to notice what is happening in the neighborhood, bird wise.

I hope it is the same here, that they are busy on the trees and feeders of my neighbors.
As long as they finally come an clear out the berries on the 4 old trees, I will be happy.

buy birdseed


WE NEED A BIRD INTERVIEWER

Wow, now that would be so fascinating to see.

I have seen a ton of hawks and magpies and ravens, of late, within the cities limits...
Had a young hawk perched on my roof this summer. :)

LOL

seriously...
We need regional bird feeding interviews please.

None around my house but saw a few hundred seagulls and buzzards, and other crap birds flying over the dump on my way home from work on the FL turnpike.

So. FL area

There is not a single bird in the entire sky. (Washington, DC)

Nope, the cats have had them all, except for the buzzards, and they're after the cats. Lol.

ru serious?
Not even a pigeon?


Everyone, go to your freeway overpasses and look for the pigeons. We presently have what I would deem, an infestation of pigeons at freeway intersections.

I live about 50 miles west of Philadelphia. We have had zero birds at our backyard feeder for 3 days. In the preceding weeks we had birds feeding all the time. Also, I received a window feeder as a Christmas gift. I hung it over the weekend and filled it with seed, but no birds have come.

As I reported earlier on another bird death thread...I'm in So FL and have a habit of feeding the birds here in my yard. There are ALWAYS several kinds,both front and back yard,as well as filling up a huge dead tree across the road,but for about 3 days now,there are none. NONE. NO ONE is coming to eat the food or drink/bathe in the water fountains. It is VERY creepy.

I'm in southeast Tennessee, and we had far fewer birds at our feeders this year than in the past. Usually have a wide variety & large numbers. No bluebirds this year, only 3 hummingbirds all summer long, and usually I have dozens, hardly any starlings (usually, they love our yard and we have dozens), only 3 downy woodpeckers and 1 red bellied wood pecker all year, very few robins. Usual numbers of chickadees, finches & cardinals, tho. We even have fewer doves than normal. Haven't seen any dead on the ground nor heard anything on the news recently, however there was a report mid-summer about many blackbirds being found dead in yards and fields.

Yes. I've always had tons of birds on my property, all winter long. This year, especially in the last week, I've noticed a huge drop.

I have Sand Plovers on my driveway all the time. They are all gone. No doves. Cardinals are missing. Even the Canadian Geese, which are normally a huge problem, are well down in numbers.

All I've seen, yesterday and today, have been a few geese and sparrows.

I live near a bird sanctuary and see rare birds on a regular basis, but not for the last year or so. Numbers are WAY down.

I think I am going to go for a long walk in the neighborhood today and tomorrow. Birds are very migratory (obviously)

I usually have a ton of different birds, who I couldn't even name by species, visiting at winter. I have lived her for only a few years and was so shocked to see the poliferation of birds in this neighborhood in all four seasons.

I am left dismayed as others have stated.

Middle Tn here (Nashville area) We have a lot of doves, cardinals, a good many blue jays and a lot of blackbirds. We might be down a little bit, but it looks pretty much the same as last year. I keep feeders full out in the front yard and a bird bath as well.

i'm started to get scared. been feeding my babies/birds for 15 yrs.
i go out there one morning and see the flocks laying dead in my yard, gonna skullfk me bad.

SE Texas here.

Lately I've seen, doves, warblers and herons.

Grackles are down--thank goodness

It's 70 degrees today and they should be everywhere, but there are none in my yard now, but can hear birds in the distance.

I've got plenty of Cardinals, and since I live near the ocean, Seagulls also. The bird population seems pretty normal for this time of year in NJ.

no birds at my feeder since I started watching this afternoon.:( I don't see any birds around at all and I live in North west NJ by a lake. There are always birds. This afternoon not a one, I'm getting spooked.

Colorado here.. We have a pasture of cows across from our house, we have trees everywhere, we went to another field yesterday to feed some horses, and it occurred to us.. no birds! The ONLY birds we have seen in the area in the last several days was one small flock of about 15 unidentified small greyish birds that flew above us as we went down the road.

Looked out windows to ever side of our house right now and not one single bird in a tree, flying, nada. We are in the part of Colorado that isn't snowy or too cold all winter.. West of Pueblo.

Maybe Trinity will give out "seed" money ?