We are experiencing the same small number of feeder birds as Glenn reports. I would also guess we have about 20% of our usual number of feeder birds.
Has this been discussed here recently? If so, I apologize that I missed it. Is it possible that West Nile Virus is affecting our feeder birds? I know that at the Finger Lakes Raptor Center in Lodi there have been many, many raptors afflicted with WNV. I keep wondering if it affecting our songbirds, woodpeckers, crows, etc. A quick Google search brought me to this article. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/west-nile-virus-still-wiping-out-birds-across-north-america Indeed, we do have our usual chickadee flock, but even our usually high numbers of Juncos are scarce this winter. If it is WNV, what should we be doing with our feeding stations? Sally Eller West shore, Cayuga Lake Ovid/Romulus On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Glenn Wilson <wil...@stny.rr.com> wrote: > We have 3 Chickadees, 2 Hairy Woodpeckers, 1 Tufted Titmouse, 2 Cardinals, > and 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker. This is about 20% of normal. I find it hard > to believe the extra food available in the Wild is causing this. > > Glenn Wilson > Endicott, NY > www.WilsonsWarbler.com > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
