Irruption Year
This year is "irruption year" meaning the birds from the arctic come down to lower states in search of food. We had a 1 report of Red Crossbill and 1 report of White-winged Crossbill. Pine Siskns have been very common and Evening Grosbeaks have been very common also. By January the birds have settled in for the winter and will come to feeders and stay till March. This might be a good winter for Bohemian Waxwings in Connecticut, I have 2 red-cedars which attract many waxwings hopefully I get Bohemian Waxwings in my yard! This year isn't going to be crossbill year in my state, but you never know! Common Redpolls have been passing my I had a flock of 4 flyover. Hoary Redpolls would be amazing to see has they came last irruption year. I had a flyover Evening Grosbeak flyover my house and 6 Pine Siskins at my feeder
For more information take a look at the Winter Finch Forecast:
http://jeaniron.ca/2018/wff18.htm
Good Birding!
T.B.
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Cool!
Yes the finches have been nice this year! I had a flock of 25+ Common Redpolls in Eastern NY recently. This year has also had crazy Red Breasted Nuthatch irruption.
@sam727 Yes, this is a crazy RBNU irruption! As I said by January expect way more redpolls if this is a successful irruption year, which it probably is going to be
here in Berlin I have also been seeing more finches that in most years. Chaffinches, Bramblings, Goldfinches, Siskins, Linnets, Greenfinches, Hawfinches. I also saw a early flock of Redpolls in October, which was quite a surprise since they usually only arrive here in January!
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