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I am also noticing the (complete?) lack of Hermit Thrushes here this year. I heard several early on in Spring and none since. Their song and call is usually a given every morning and evening well into the summer. But not in 2015. Nancy E Dalhousie, Kings Co On 2015-06-23, at 9:08 PM, James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> wrote: > I did my Breeding Bird route that starts at Jordan Falls and runs into Shelburne and up into Welshtown on June 20. The results were scary. A lack of many of the usual species. Low species count and numbers of individual species and very poor for warblers, hermit thrushes and swallows. Many of the stops that were usually booming with life were almost vacant. I hope this is not a sign of things to come. This route usually results in large counts for hermit thrushes of which this year numbers were way down. On a brief look at the preliminary data I see we recorded only 19 hermit thrushes, whereas the norm is between 45-70. The day was perfect and it was quieter at most stops than normal for listening. It was a lot colder at only 6 when we started, so I guess that could make a sizeable difference, but once the temperature started to rise at around 08:00 we still should have had better results for the rest of the route. > > James R. Hirtle > LaHave >
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