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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Oct 12, 2025 at 12:42:04, Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div>I don’t recall seeing so much bird activity at our feeders for a long time. I put out seed on the window ledge outside my office (at home), and it has been deluged with birds today, mostly Black-capped Chickadees and Red-breasted Nuthatches taking away sunflower seeds to cache, but also other species. I think they know that winter is coming.<br></div>
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I’m seeing a similar increase in usage, especially with the suet feeder, but I’ve had both a Pileated and at least one Flicker start visiting daily this fall (along with a continuing Downy). We’re at about 500’ elevation, and we had the seasonal army of Robins move through going downslope a couple of weeks early this year (it’s amazing to suddenly have 100ish Robins in the yard for a couple of days, and then disappear again)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It looks like the summer Juncos are gone, and the winter Juncos have started showing up in numbers. We have a very nice population of Red-Breasted Nuthatches and Spotted Towhees here year round. The summer birds (Tanagers, Grosbeaks, Swainson’s Thrush, Western Flycatcher et al) are gone. The Stellar Jays are really busy stashing for the winter as well. All this indicates to me a cool, wet winter (and with La Niña officially in place, that seems more likely).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Chuq<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">---------------------------------------<br><br>Chuq Von Rospach (<a href="http://www.chuq.me" target="_blank">http://www.chuq.me</a>)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Silverdale, Washington</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Birder, Nature and Wildlife Photographer<br><br>Email me at: <a href="mailto:chuqvr@gmail.com" target="_blank">chuqvr@gmail.com</a><br>Mastodon: @<a href="mailto:chuqvr@fosstodon.org" target="_blank">chuqvr@fosstodon.org</a><br><br>Stay Updated with what I'm doing: <a href="https://www.chuq.me/6fps/" target="_blank">https://www.chuq.me/6fps/</a><br>My latest e-book: <a href="https://www.chuq.me/ebooks" target="_blank">https://www.chuq.me/ebooks</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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