Brood X is coming in about 10 weeks
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stbartshopper
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Keep your ears covered!
JEK
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We are now in the thick of them - with an unexpected result. All the songbirds I feed year round have disappeared. No cardinals, goldfinch, nuthatch, finch, woodpeckers for a week now. Theory is they can’t communicate over the din and migrate to quieter pastures. Will they come back?
stbartshopper
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Brood X has been reported emerging in northern Indiana. Nothing yet in the central part of the state and the temps have been warm.
Bart -my real name-
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Bart -my real name-
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Bart -my real name-
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From the article:
[FONT="]These data showed fewer crows, blue jays and other insect-eating birds in areas of cicada emergence, six months before the emergence happened.
[/FONT]I remain skeptical about the rest of the article. As Amy mentioned, where are they going to go? This emergence covers thousands of square miles. And I find it hard to believe that breeding birds are going to abandon their nests because of a little noise. Plenty of these birds nest in the heart of cities alongside highways.
[FONT="]These data showed fewer crows, blue jays and other insect-eating birds in areas of cicada emergence, six months before the emergence happened.
[/FONT]I remain skeptical about the rest of the article. As Amy mentioned, where are they going to go? This emergence covers thousands of square miles. And I find it hard to believe that breeding birds are going to abandon their nests because of a little noise. Plenty of these birds nest in the heart of cities alongside highways.
JEK
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All I know is they are gone. What are you seeing at your feeders?
