Where are Those Irruptive Birds Now?

Jeff and Allison Wells
Wed, 01/27/2021 - 8:30am
Amazingly, a pine siskin was recently heard flying over Everglades National Park.
At the same time, the species was reported far to the north, in the tiny community of Moosonee, on the shore of James Bay in northern Ontario. Courtesy of Jeff Wells.
Redpolls are one of the irruptive finches sought after by birders across the eastern U.S. Courtesy of Jeff Wells.
Many of you may have been fortunate enough to have at your feeders in the late fall and early winter any number of special winter visitors: irruptive finches or other birds whose breeding range extends across the vast Boreal Forest. In our neighborhood we were blessed with a large flock of pine siskins that spent weeks feeding in the tall northern white cedar on the edge of our neighbor’s driveway. We saw quite a large flock of common redpolls at the end of October over at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta. Mom Wells hosted some bright yellow evening grosbeaks at her Damariscotta feeder earlier in the fall, and our cousin’s husband photographed a migrating purple finch that landed on his boat 12 miles out to sea. And red-breasted nuthatches seem to be everywhere; they began to be detected in odd places as early as August as they started moving south in numbers.

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