Unsweetened Sugarbush

Very true. I have been birding for 20 years now, the decline has been dramatic. Today however I saw hundreds of swallows feeding over the river, it's been years, so I am beaming, and hopeful. Warm poetry hugs! xomo

Sounds glorious! A virtual Sir David Attenborough would rock ;), xomo!

I wish ;), pesticides, pollution, destruction of habitat, window collisions, cats...

I have all those in and around my yard too; the year round city residents, it's all the migratories that are missing, the woods were freakishly quiet.

In Hawai'i, most of the endemic birds are extinct because people insist upon feeding the pigeons and doves which spend their day multiplying and replenishing the earth with more pigeons and doves quickly crowding out other species. Government will take no action because politicians like votes, and people like feeding pigeons and doves. Be happy you don't live where pigeons, doves, seagulls, etc., are dive-bombing poop in your hair! Aloha! Rico

~thank you my friend. I am an optimist by nature. I have been birding for 20 years now. I know what I am missing. <3

I went for a walk in the sugarbush today; mused that the giant stump was the mother, admiring all the tender baby trees. Rico, not a single bird in the woods. Not even a resident woodpecker. Nothing. I ache.