Post by fourthousandholes on Sept 9, 2006 14:01:37 GMT -5
A little over a month ago I got a letter from a friend living in Iowa, saying that she was hearing from friends
on the East coast that the normal array of birds seemed to be missing from their yards.
That wasn't the case where I live in Pennsylvania, so I didn't think much about it, but son-of-a-gun:
In the last three weeks all the robins, cardinals, bluebirds, and other birds of that size
seem to have vanished from here! They're not dying off. It's not a case of finding dead birds all
over the place. They simply seem to have left. I have no idea to where.
Naturally, I'm wondering how wide-spread this is.
We still have small starlings, and large birds like pigeons and geese, but none of the ones that are
about the size of a hand. Has anyone else noticed this strange disappearing act? August and the start
of September is too early for the usual flying south for the winter.
Unless winter is coming in about a week!
My bird bath has been unused for two weeks!
on the East coast that the normal array of birds seemed to be missing from their yards.
That wasn't the case where I live in Pennsylvania, so I didn't think much about it, but son-of-a-gun:
In the last three weeks all the robins, cardinals, bluebirds, and other birds of that size
seem to have vanished from here! They're not dying off. It's not a case of finding dead birds all
over the place. They simply seem to have left. I have no idea to where.
Naturally, I'm wondering how wide-spread this is.
We still have small starlings, and large birds like pigeons and geese, but none of the ones that are
about the size of a hand. Has anyone else noticed this strange disappearing act? August and the start
of September is too early for the usual flying south for the winter.
Unless winter is coming in about a week!
My bird bath has been unused for two weeks!
