Hello fellow birders,
       Last weekend I was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan enjoying the
wide open spaces. I birded and dragonflied ( is there such a word ? ) at
Seeny ( camped at the Mead Creek campground ) and Whitefish point. Red -
breasted nuthatches were everywhere and I saw many a "jar" of nuthatches
there. I was spending hours in forest and I would have the sound of a red -
breasted nuthatch almost continually in my ears. At Whitefish point the
nuthatches easily outnumbered ( visual sightings ) every other species of
bird combined. I would estimate that the numbers of nuthatches out numbered
all other species combined at the places I was at. So with the early and
many sightings in Ohio already, we could be in for a nuthatch irruption (
are not we overdue ? ) and if the pine cone crop is poor in the north it
could be quite an irruption !  May the birds be with you, Henry.

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