I noticed it as well, however it happens almost every year to some degree or another at my house so I have always presumed it was either an abundance of natural food sources becoming available, or just the gap between when the summer residents move south and when the winter residents descend. I have always assumed it was Mother Nature giving me a month or so's respite before their eating bills start keeping up with my heating bills. 😊
Cheers,
Rob
From: maine-birds@googlegroups.com [mailto:maine-birds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Susan D
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 1:05 PM
To: Maine birds <maine-birds@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [Maine-birds] Where'd all my feeder birds go?
Has anyone heard of any bad seed going around or had a sudden drop off of feeder interest? Just wondering if I might have gotten a bag of bad seed or something--I had a very sudden and noticeable drop-off of all my regular platform and suet feeder birds about a month ago. I had built up a large population over 5-6 years of regulars from Mourning Doves, to Blue Jays, Chickadees, Goldfinches, sparrows, nuthatches, plus the seasonal episodic visits from Indigo Buntings RB Grosbeaks, lots of types of woodpeckers, etc . I use several feed varieties so there are always sunflower whole seeds and chips, millet, peanuts, finch-type thistle things out. I'm beginning to get occasional visitors back now but very low numbers. They all seemed to drop off during that very long, hot, dry spell in the late summer and early September. I'm worried. I'm thinking of throwing out all my seed and starting over.
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