We don’t have bumblebees this year. We still have honeybees, but not as many
as we used to have. We had goldfinches nesting here this year and still have
house finches and of course house sparrows. We had one birdhouse that raised
tree swallows.
Joan Glabach
Severance, CO
Sent from my
I am in Jeffco as well, though a different part, in the neighborhoods just
east of Standley Lake. We've been in this house over 20 years and I've been
feeding the birds in my yard all that time.
This is the first year that house finches are almost entirely absent.
Normally I'd have up to a
If it is a long term phenomenon reaching a peak vs. short term, it may be
worthwhile to look at what has been happening with precipitation in the
longer term as well. In general, the southern parts of the state are
getting drier. Only the northern front range seems to be holding own or
even
Hi:
David Leatherman in his recent post pointed out detecting movement of
traditional mountain and foothill species downslope to the plains. This
phenomena has previously been posted on Cobirds this summer with observers
commenting on how the mountain species are just not present in the
