Hi Stella,
I was with a birding friend (Porter Turnbull) two weeks ago who was visiting his mother in Marion, Mass. He asked me about Carolina wrens because they were nearly absent in that area (the bend out to the Cape). I told him it was likely they experienced a winter die-off.
I spent three days birding with him in Lubec and Trescott along the immediate coast during the third week of June. We noticed that winter wrens, golden-crowned and ruby-crowned kinglets, juncos, swamp sparrows and white-throated sparrow populations were lower, in some cases, much lower, than previous years when I conducted annual point count surveys in that area (e.g., Quoddy Head State Park, Boot Head, the International Park on Campobello Island, 4 areas in Cutler). Black-capped chickadee numbers were also low when located away from human habitation.
Norm
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Stella Walsh <stellawalsh@earthlink.net> wrote:
Certainly a very difficult winter in Maine for this species. Know from friends a Appledore (Isles of Shoals) that none survived there.
Wondering if members retained or lost "their" Carolina Wrens this past winter.
Stella
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