The recent storm caused a considerable fallout of birds in the San Luis Valley. In Monte Vista, 12-14 inches of snow effectively cutoff any source of food for many migrating birds. It was not looking very good. Lisa and I did our best and cleared lawn and spread some seed for the ground scratching birds. We also put out mealworms from our mealworm mill, and that got immediately used by robins, sage thrashers, warblers, and hermit thrushes. My sole remaining hummingbird feeder was used by 2 hummers, and I believe they would have been in big trouble otherwise. Sadly, we had nothing to offer the swallows circling the house. On the local roads, many birds died as they huddled near the cleared road edges, but failed to escape the fast-moving vehicles. I examined some of the road-killed birds and there were mtn bluebirds, robins, hermit thrush, vesper sparrow and wilson warblers. Anyway, snows are melting and I hope the birds can get back to feeding and migrating.
John Rawinski Monte Vista, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/67086baa-eff3-4bd2-9d57-b866f6373f52n%40googlegroups.com.
