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Pine Siskin (at last)
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu (CAROLINA BIRDS)
- Subject: Pine Siskin (at last)
- From: BILL HILTON JR Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History<hilton@hiltonpond.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:15:56 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
The cool, wet weather of early February finally brought in my
long-awaited flock of American Goldfinches; in the past four days
(4-7 Feb) I've banded 97 of them at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont
Natural History near York SC. Coincidentally, I had to refill my
thistle seed feeder for the first time in several winters.
And, along with the goldfinches today there was a single Pine
Siskin--the first since 21 February 1990 and only the ninth in the
past eight years. This trend is quite a change, since Pine Siskins
were among my most dependable winter birds in the mid- to late-1980s.
In fact, thanks to numbers like 486 banded in the winter of 1986-87,
Pine Siskins are still my seventh most commonly captured bird with
1,538 banded over the past 21 years.
A photo of today's illustrious Pine Siskin will appear in the next
edition of "This Week at Hilton Pond."
For an up-to-date chart depicting the most commonly banded birds at
Hilton Pond Center, see
http://www.hiltonpond.org/Ch02BandSpeciesTotals.html .
Happy Nature Watching!
BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845
Please visit our web sites at http://www.hiltonpond.org and
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watch the sunset." BHjr.