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Even though September is a bird- filled month in my upstate New York yard, I know things are winding down. It isn’t that fall migration isn’t exciting—the occasional
migrating grosbeak still stops by
my feeders, and the southbound
warblers repeatedly test my identification skills—but with each passing
day I have a little less avian variety
in the yard. And as winter nears,
there aren’t many new arrivals to
counter the departures.
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There is hope, however, in the
form of the winter finch forecast.
Written by Ron Pittaway and pub-
lished online by Ontario Field Orni-
thologists (
ofo.ca), its release each
September is well timed to alleviate
my fall migration blues. The winter
finch forecast is like a “bird futures”
report, predicting whether the com-
mon redpoll and other winter finches
will be seen in my yard this winter.
