I came home from work today to find one tube feeder of sunflower chips empty (I have the guard on it so no squirrels get in) and a bigger diameter tube 1/4 empty. They were full this morning when I left for work!! I filled both tubes up again and in about 15 minutes I counted 53 PINE SISKINS!!! They were battling for position on the tubes and from the cage guards. There were also a bunch feeding on thr ground. There were even more calling from the spruce trees around my home so the number is likely higher than 53!! They were also joined by 24 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES and 2 PURPLE FINCHES.
This is going to get expensive! Sunflower chips are not cheap!! This rivals what I had in mid winter a couple years back already and it is only the first week of October. Anyone else have large numbers of siskins this early? Dave Nicosia -- 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/ --
