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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Hi Tweets,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">On Sunday afternoon 2/11, I was walking in my West Seattle neighborhood when I realized that a small tree ahead of me was full of chattery finches: not only House Finches and
American Goldfinches, but also Pine Siskins. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">It’s been a long time – months to a year or longer – since I’ve encountered a bunch of siskins. They’ve never been vastly abundant in my yard, but I seem to remember seeing
them more often, usually in small groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">I seem to remember reading on Tweeters about others noticing a lack of siskins, but a search of the archives doesn’t turn up many recent reports. I’m curious about others’
experience; have you noticed a lack followed by recent sightings? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">I did screengrabs of eBird sightings from Dec-Feb for the past 6 years, and by far the most sightings were recorded this year and in 2020-2021…but I think there’s a chance
that that 2020-21 increase in sightings may have been at least partly due to you-know-what and everyone suddenly home and available to look for siskins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">The
<a href="https://finchnetwork.org/western-irruption-alert-pine-grosbeaks-cassins-finches-and-others-making-record-movements">
Finch Research Network</a> predicted an irruption this year, with indicators noted as far back as July/August. So it’s interesting to see that that might be showing up now. What have you noticed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Thanks much,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black">Trileigh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:none">Trileigh Tucker<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Lucida Bright",serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:none">Pelly Valley, West Seattle <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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