I doubt if they care about birds or anything else except their profit. Instead of dozens and dozens of chickadees flying in and out of the feeders, we now saw only three. Oddly, a few Junco birds are still around. Lots of pushes of birds migrating. We had had the normal number of birds the previous winter and into spring and early summer. I think a lot depends on the area. There were five or six woodpeckers, four bluejays and eleven mourning doves… and yes, mourning doves will eat from an elevated feeder. It is eerie. The sad truth about the wind farms is that not one of them, worldwide, has closed one coal-fired plant. I wonder… was it just too cold and wet for the summer’s baby birds to survive? I’ve noticed the same thing here in central PA. So far, so good here in NC. My seed cakes are a no show either. ... Now over the past couple of years less and less birds appear. These loose associations can include a dozen species and more than fifty individuals. Very, very strange. The Pygmy is a bird of the long-needled pine forests of the western U.S. Winter arrived with a vengeance here. Here in Vermont I am seeing the same thing, very few birds! Walked the woods a few times end of this week. It’s mid-December and quite cold, especially this week (daytime high around -10C). It is very disconcerting and we are definitely noticing the absence of the birds this year. Our email newsletter shares the latest programs and initiatives. I put some ground seeds down and no luck with that either. Where have all the birds gone? I look up in the trees (I live in a very wooded area) and at my neighbors feeders and there are no birds anywhere. And they are all close at hand. December 2017 is the first winter in 30 years that there are no chickadees around here. You’d think “once” they say “one bird” get eaten by a cat…it would be like, “ooh, let’s don’t go too close to the ground there…predator”. Had a “couple” chickadee swooping around one flew into the open window of the SUV. These long-billed, short-tailed songbirds travel through tree canopies with chickadees, kinglets, and woodpeckers but stick to tree trunks and branches, where they search bark furrows for hidden insects. 2 inches here and feet in the South Towns. Are the Trump Administration's Environmental Rollbacks Built to Last? I think it was in July when we first noticed that there weren’t as many birds around as usual. Nearby, several Black-capped Chickadees inspect leaves and twigs for small insects or cocoons. The sunshine here is scorching and I believe they can’t take it. I have lived in venus tx for 40 years on a 6 acre land, in all my life I have never seen this. We have also noted a dramatic decrease in bird activity. All I can say is a long hard cold winter once it sets in. There has to be a reason why, and I do not believe that the “natural bush” has enough on the branches for the birds to eat. © 2013 Tune In to Nature.org November 2018 Narrator: Mary McCann. Their are sticking around. Bald Eagle. I haven’t noticed a change this year. My personal favorite singing bird. Tons of Red-breasted, hairy and downy woodpeckers too. Well, we all know that everything in the wildlife world is “predatory”. Lonsdale, MN. I wonder if there is any connection. Then I noticed in the middle of summer to the end (now). Initially, it was swamped with black capped chickadees. Rachel Carson wrote about a “Silent Spring” due to the poisons mankind has put into our environment. The songbirds in our backyard actually serenade me when I come out to bring them fresh water and feed. A neighbor told me that some idiot introduced coyotes into Uwharrie Forest to “control the deer population”…eek. I cried because we used to have so many of them. We have the titmice, chickadees, both kinds of nuthatches, a couple of woodpeckers and some sparrows and mourning doves but not in the numbers of last year. I would whistle to the mocking birds all year round and now they are gone. Question: Are titmice so dominant over the chickadees that the former never allow the latter to feed at the same location? I want my birds back!!! We are real bird lovers. Bird calls provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. —Shirley, Solving the Natural Peanut Butter Oil Separation Problem. More watchful eyes mean better detection of predators, allowing each bird to spend more time feeding. We just moved to this place in April so I am not sure what is normal here but I do know that I rarily saw a Robin. Written by Shirley Filed Under: Enjoying Nature. Last week we were swarmed by them at our crab apple tree. Spread the word. Little; Red-breasted Nuthatch by W.L. We have a ton of birds around the SW metro, Robins, Cardinals, Chickadee’s, Ducks, Swans, among many others and a lot of predator birds lately too. I love watching them, and their screeching is hard to overlook, so I know for sure that there were no baby birds being fed at this feeder. Nearby, several Black-capped Chickadees inspect leaves and twigs for small insects or cocoons. Something “does” kill off small things around here. Not a single bird anywhere. Check out the hundreds of other articles in the Choosing Voluntary Simplicity article archives. I have 4 sets of cardinals, to many gold finches to count, Downeyand red headed woodpeckers . I hear sandhill cranes nearly every day too. How Much Does It Cost to Feed YOUR Family? We protect birds and the places they need. more robins last week, but still everywhere. We live in the city but behind our houses, is a dense “forest”…hence the name, “Oakwood Forest”, and back there, they have a number of shrubs, extremely tall old gum trees, lots of grown over tree limbs, etc…makes for pretty good shelter. BirdNote episodes air daily on public radio stations nationwide. Very strange. Does Frugality Mean You Shouldn’t Have Nice Things? Saw Redwings en route in the marshy areas. We keep one feeder filled all summer, and we usually have baby birds perched on or around it with the parent birds feeding their babies from the feeder. There are no Finches, Nuthatches, or any other common Winter birds at our feeders. Can You Tell I’m Really, Really, REALLY Looking Forward to Spring? I live in Northern Ontario and up until this winter we have been buying 50lb bags of oils a month for the winter birds. Up until September, we would have to fill the feeders every other day to keep up. Our lawn is usually riddled with Snow Birds, a winter staple of birds, and have had many snow storms to date with not one Snow Bird in sight. But no-o-o-oh…they just keep on making the same deadly mistakes. I would save my bread to through to the birds at the parking lot at work and it would be there the next day. No robins at the house. The poor things really need water these days, even if all you have is pie tin to place on the ground, it will help. Another explanation they gave was that bird populations naturally fluctuate from year to year and that a feeder that is really “busy” one year may have few birds the next. We are constantly fighting to keep them out of our feeders, but haven’t seen one as yet. Where have all the songbirds gone? I’m getting on in years, but let’s hope they’ll all be around for centuries to come. We had tons of bluebirds and finches there and I enjoyed watching them play in the snow. It’s still winter a few hours north, so I think we are temporarily loaded up south of the snow line.