The feeder was moderately busy today but only with chickadees and red polls. There are still no sign of even the lowly house sparrows. Red polls vastly outnumber house sparrows this winter. Some winters the house sparrow is the main and often the only daily visitor. Chickadees are also plentiful this winter. Earlier there were nuthatches, downy woodpeckers, and grosbeaks but they seem scarce now.
We drove to the dump and to the town of Shoal Lake. At the dump there were the usual ravens and also the regular dump cats. No catbirds though! At the town there is still one of the older type of elevator and there were flocks of pigeons flying about it. There will be lots of food and no doubt they can find good places to raise their young nearby.
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