[Tweeters] Worried about lack of birds at my feeders

[Joshua Hayes via Tweeters]

We have two seed feeders and a suet feeder in the back and just suet in the front; we live near North Seattle College. I have not noticed any fall-off in bird activity. It's true they're taking less seed, but I assume this is because insect populations are rising with rising temperatures and increasing degree-days. We do provide water in back by rotating several scrubbed/bleached clay pot-bottoms out daily (that is, scrubbed every day. We have six, so we can always have one out, one scrubbed and bleached, and one drying before filling).

We're seeing the usual numbers of both chickadees, house finches, white-crowned sparrows, song sparrows, towhees, juncos, nuthatches, flickers, downies, and bushtits, although the bushtits have definitely gone from groups of about 20 down to what I presume are close family groups of 2-6.

I'm guessing there may also be birds on eggs, so they're keeping a low profile in general.

Josh Hayes
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