I've seen one single monarch - just yesterday. And my yard is full of
wild milkweed.
Jeanne Baumann, west Como Park area of St. Paul
On 7/19/2024 12:22 PM, Missy Bowen wrote:
No monarchs. Troubling.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 12:17 PM Jeffrey
Saffle<jeffrey.saf...@hsc.utah.edu>
wrote:
We have a few hummers here in Lake Elmo but I’m much more struck by a
near-total absence of monarch butterflies. I successfully raised and
released 16 monarchs in June/early July but since then I’ve only
found one
caterpillar and seen one adult. I suspect the relentlessly rainy
weather
was hard on them. What are others’ thought?
Jeffrey Saffle
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 19, 2024, at 11:27 AM, Jason Frank<jmfran...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in Ortonville, and haven't seen a single hummingbird all summer
long. I
only saw a few in the spring.
There are no Japanese Beetles this far west yet, so no one around
here is
spraying for them. Plenty of people are spraying for everything else,
though. Ortonville is governed by the type of 20th Century idiocy that
employs a municipal mosquito spray truck which circles the town once a
week
to kill every flying insect in its path (can't have all dem golfers
and
lakeshore dwellers gettin all itchy, don't ya know). There are
plenty of
flowers around town, and good nesting habitat in the parks and
ravines. I
too am noticing low numbers of Barn and Tree Swallows... and I haven't
seen
a Kestrel since April. At this point, it could be a whole cumulative
effect
of climate, over-spraying and insect population collapse, and bird
flu,
which I'd imagine could spread to hummers if their feeders are in
close
proximity to seed and suet feeders. All those storms and heavy rain
during
nesting season probably didn't help, either.
Jason Frank
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 8:36 PM Nancy Steinhauser
<nancyhu...@gmail.com
wrote:
Wondering if anyone else has seen the numbers go down this summer.
From a
great start (over 30 birds arrived at the feeders.....and who
knows the
ones I didn't see) in mid-May, the numbers now have dwindled to less
than a
dozen, and that's up from 3 or 4 because the little ones have
fledged.
Neighbors and co-workers (the north shore and inland above Two
Harbors)
have reported the same "drop" in birds. Bewildered. They started to
disappear early to mid-June and have not returned. Wondering about
bird
flu.
We have had a huge mosquito population this summer because of all the
rain. But that hasn't dropped hummingbird numbers coming to
feeders in
previous wet summers.
Any ideas/experiences? The numbers here have been steadily going
up for
over
25 years. Many feeders out. Such a shock to have so few birds.
Thanks in advance.
Nancy in Superior Highlands
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