Last year in Greenbelt I didn't hear wood thrushes much at all compared to the usual but this year I hear them quite a bit...not very scientific but hopefully next year they will be back in your neck of the woods?  Or, is this a more general trend people are seeing/hearing (not hearing)?

Michel Cavigelli


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From: Maryland Birds & Birding on behalf of Gail Frantz
Sent: Mon 5/23/2011 11:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] decline of yard birds
 
In a message dated 5/23/2011 9:15:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

Hi  All:

Last night as I sat out on my porch I realized that I hadn't heard  the 
wood thrush call this spring.  When I moved to this house that backs  up on 
Northwest branch park, I would hear wood thrush, towhees, catbirds and  others 
in the predawn and dusk chorus.  Several years ago the towhee  ceased to be 
heard.  Last year I heard no catbirds and now this year I  only hear robins, 
scarlet tanagers and cardinals.  What a loss and a  tragedy - not to hear 
the fluting sounds of the wood thrush!

Sally  Wechsler
silver spring, md
 
Hi Sally,
 
This Sunday I was complaining to Debbie Terry that this is the  first 
summer in over 40 years we have heard no wood thrush in the adjoining  woods.
There is no construction in our surrounding area. 
Scary isn't it?


Gail  Frantz
13955 Old Hanover Rd
Reisterstown,  MD
21136

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