I also had tons of Pine siskins visit my WNY birdfeeders this winter. 2-3 times, mixed in with the P.siskins were 1 or 2 Common Redpolls. I also had White-winged Crossbills in my brushy area pinetrees, eating pinecone seeds, the first time that has ever happened since I have been birdwatching. Both siskins and redpolls are irruptive species for WNY. This year, the pinecone seed crop in SE Canada was poor, so the siskins and redpolls and crossbills moved further south into the USA, in search of better food sources. They will go back up north to breed. A few straggler Pine siskins are still here, but most have already left WNY Gail R (WNY)

I was just remarking to DuBois that maybe the little things have decided that with Global Warming, may as well stay here to nest since the north is getting warm as well. The poor Goldfinches, Tufted Titmice, Carolina Chickadees, etc, don't get a crack at the food all day until the Pine Siskins all suddenly vanish around 5 p.m.

This winter is when I first saw these guys on my thistle feeders, and yeah, they are going through the nyjer!

Awwww...they are so cute. Was it year before last when we had a Pine Siskin Irruption? Well anyway, I had never seen one prior to that, and we had scads and scads of them in my Georgia yard that year. Where are you located dklucius?~~Angie