[Tweeters] Am I the only person on south sound who hasn't seen any Pine siskins all fall/winter?

[Jeannine Carter]

Adding that we also haven’t seen any here in NW Seattle. I live in North Beach, between Carkeek and Gold Gardens parks with multiple wooded ravines running north-south, and in previous years the flocks came through methodically moving from tree to tree. Last year’s eruption was massive and downright eerie when they came through. This year, nada. My regulars and I are thankful for the peace around the feeders :)

Jeannine
NW Seattle
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Am I the only person on south sound who hasn't seen any Pine siskins all fall/winter?

I'm hearing there is a large cone crop in BC that is keeping them up there.



On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 1:36 PM PENNY & DAVID KOYAMA <plkoyama at comcast.net<mailto:plkoyama at comcast.net>> wrote:
Tweets,
I haven't seen one anywhere, but due to Covid recovery and holiday events, we've been sticking close to home since early Nov.  We do have scads of Am Goldfinches, though, quickly running through our seed supply. They don't fight as much as Pine Siskins, which is always entertaining.  I guess this just isn't one of those siskin eruptive years.
Penny Koyama, Bothell
On 12/29/2022 1:45 PM Philip Dickinson <pdickins at gmail.com<mailto:pdickins at gmail.com>> wrote:


We have been seeing only a few siskins north of Seattle, occasionally one or two at a time and no large flocks. My son says the same is true in central Texas

Phil Dickinson

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On Dec 29, 2022, at 11:19 AM, Betty Watson <rocky98502 at gmail.com<mailto:rocky98502 at gmail.com>> wrote:

We're out near the end of Steamboat Island Rd in west Olympia.  I was just wondering what other people have been experiencing.  This year we've had about 4 X as many juncos, the usual number of goldfinches but zero siskins.
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