Bird Watching: Top Ten Foods for Winter Birdfeeding, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
I went out this morning to refill our feeders, too. Seven inches of snow and temps in the single digits.

I hope my Carolina Wrens survive (along with the other birds, of course.). I read somewhere about the die-offs of this little sensitive-to-cold wren. Below is a graph that shows the ups and downs of the carolina wren population during the 1970's and early 80's.

During the 1980's the population rebuilt until the bitter cold winter of 1993 when the carolina wrens were killed off by as much as 80 or 90 % in our region. (I wish I could find the article about it--it's the reason I started feeding the birds in winter!)


This message was edited Feb 7, 2007 10:14 AM