Where have all the sparrows gone?
Last weekend I counted birds in my backyard for the Audubon Society:
* 1 mourning dove
* 1 tufted titmouse
No sparrows? More typically, we’re inundated with sparrows, getting 40-50 targeting the bird seed Iggy scatters on our patio. This is very strange.
I wonder if they’ve been scared off by the dead sparrow I saw lying next to the garage.