(July 25, 2021 at 12:51 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: That's weird...we have cardinals all the time. I love to watch them since they are always in pairs. We are getting quite a variety of birds this year. Last year we didn't have many. They all seem to be back this year. I added a bird feeder to the front of the house outside my office...it took a while for the birds to come to it, now I can barely keep it filled it's become so popular.
You can tell when the blue jays have been in the bird bath as the whole back deck is wet when they get done. I think someone is feeding steroids to them...damn things are huge!
My guess for the lack of birds is they were effected by the deep freeze and late frosts. Most crepe myrtle, azalea, butterfly bush, and hibiscus died back to the roots and had to regrow from the ground up. That sent the migrants further south. The birds that were around for -15°F, like cardinal and robin, likely lost population.
Everything else appears to have recovered. It was the longest and fullest redbud and dogwood season I can remember.
