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Date Posted: 10:53:05 01/07/03 Tue
Author: John
Author Host/IP: tol36.8.ppp.toast.net / 205.133.8.36
Subject: Re: red breasted nuthatches
In reply to: susan 's message, "red breasted nuthatches" on 16:10:17 01/06/03 Mon

>Has anyone had any red breasted nuthatches at their
>suet feeders this year? I had regular visitors last
>year, but not one this year!

I think last year was an unusually large irruptive year for Red-breasted Nuthatches in Ohio. The Christmas bird count results from last winter should provide details about this.

We had a pair that were regular visitors at our west Toledo home from late October to mid-April. A year ago, many on the Ohio birding e-mail listserver reported Red-breasted Nuthatches at their feeders for the first time in several years or the first time ever.

I didn't see a single Red-breasted Nuthatch during last fall's migration. One early morning in the fall of 2001 at Magee, dozens of Red-breasted Nuthatches were in the trees along the parking lot. They were streaming in off the lake around sunrise.

Accordig to Peterjohn's book, "Birds of Ohio", Red-breasted Nuthatches are irruptive every two or three years.

The Autumn 2002 issue of "Birdscope" produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology said this about last winter:

"To look at last winter's irruptive migration, we summarized 14 years of FeederWatch data for the four most widespread irruptive species: Red-breasted Nuthatch, Pine Siskin, Common Redpoll, and Evening Grosbeak. Of these, the Red-breasted Nuthatch was the single most widespread irruptive species this year."

The winter finches are also absent from Ohio this year.

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