Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:42:33 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Where are the titmice? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In my yard, Tufted Titmouse has always been one of those birds that's seen or heard virtually every day, year-round -- yet in recent weeks I've hardly seen any. With the change of seasons the feeders have become busy again, but the finches, chickadees and nuthatches aren't being joined by the usual perky little gray birds. Has anyone else noticed fewer titmice around lately? The scarcity of crows (presumably from the depredations of West Nile) is bad enough, but losing the little dicky-birds too would be very alarming. Janet Millenson Potomac, MD (Montgomery County) janet@twocrows.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================