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<td>Re: [Mnbird] Birds scarce?</td>
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<td>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:21:39 -0500</td>
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<td>Jim Traun <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jftraun@gmail.com"><jftraun@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td>DONALD GRUSSING Owner <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cdrussin@centurylink.net"><cdrussin@centurylink.net></a></td>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/26/2015 2:54 PM, DONALD GRUSSING
Owner via Mnbird wrote:<br>
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font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"> I'm mostly a yard bird guy.
I like to sit outside and see what's flying. I go to
grandkids' ball games and watch the sky as well as the games.
I drive by Target and look for the Ringed-bill Gulls relaxing
in the parking lot. It seems that I am not seeing as much as I
used to see.
<div>No Chimney Swifts occasionally twittering over the house,
no Barn Swallows, or hawks or any of the common visitors.
Yes, last night I saw a Green Heron and a small flock of
Cedar Waxwings at Freeman Park. A couple days before I saw
nothing at Bennett Park. A Broad Wing Hawk flew over my
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<div>Avian flu perhaps? Aging eyes? Too many Cooper's Hawks?
Am I the only one experiencing this?</div>
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<div>Don Grussing</div>
<div>Minnetonka</div>
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Moorhead backyard. No finches outside of two golds, no doves, no
orioles or catbirds. I am set up with lots of shelter, five water
baths, oranges, jelly, tons of peanuts and nijger thistle. All I
have and these are few, is nuthatches and chickadees, woodpeckers
(one pilieated regular customer) and robins, weavers and
grackles. All other birds have up and left for almost three
years. Used to be a zoo back there. Something is wrong. Even
migrating sparrows and warblers etc.were very few. Unreal, not at
all normal. The coopers hawk seems to have left me alone this
year since I put up a menacing looking plastic owl, not sure if
that did it but finally he has stopped dropping by after many
years of predating here.<br>
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