After a total Siskin drought since October, 1999, we had four Pine 
Siskins on the thistle feeder yesterday afternoon, December 22.  Our 
yard is inside the Washington Beltway.  So far today, there has been 
no further sign of them, however.  The frequent transit through the 
yard of a Sharp-shinned Hawk has been keeping our feeder birds in 
skittish mode all week.

Mike Bowen
Bethesda

At 02:08 PM 12/23/2008 -0500, Paul O'Brien wrote:
>We had nine Siskins on the feeders at 8AM and have had twos and threes all
>day.  That's the first flock here since Oct. 23.  Could they be here for the
>duration?  Perhaps we'll see tomorrow.
>
>Paul O'Brien
>Rockville, Mont. Co., MD

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