[Tweeters] Pine Siskins storming our feeders ... (maybe they're coming from Seattle!)

[dgrainger at birdsbydave.com]

In the throng mobbing our feeders, I have not seen any that are 
obviously sick, just ravenously hungry. Port Townsend, WA


On 2021-01-10 15:28, THOMAS BENEDICT wrote:

> Are we thinking that the feeders are making the siskin sick? Or are

> they already sick because there was a food supply shortage somewhere

> else? Or do we think that having feeders will spread whatever sickness

> the siskin have to other species or healthy siskin populations?

> 

>  Tom Benedict

>  Seahurst, WA

> 

>> On 01/10/2021 12:12 PM Ellen Blackstone <ellenblackstone at gmail.com>

>> wrote:

>> 

>> Alas, count mine as one more feederless yard -- had to take the

>> feeders down after having 2 sick siskins.

>> Bummer.

>> 

>> Ellen Blackstone, Wedgwood, Seattle

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