Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:40:17 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Pierce Subject: Re: Where are the titmice? In-Reply-To: <000501c39f58$a4914c70$6501a8c0@JAM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All mine are present and accounted for. There were several weeks with very little feeder activity - even the squirrels were finding other places to be - but business has been quite brisk for the past week or so. The T-mice have been whistling a lot lately too. fdp -------------------------------------------- Fred Pierce (DNRC) Avialantic.com fpierce@avialantic.com www.avialantic.com ------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On > Behalf Of Janet Millenson > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:43 PM > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Where are the titmice? > > > 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================