[From last September]:

Maybe it’s just us, or maybe there’s just some sort of predator in the woods we don’t know about, but have any of your other readers written in and said they see no birds in their back yard…. at all ? We have a large, 12 peg bird feeder which is pretty much emptied every other day by the chickadees and gold finches. For like the last 7-10 days my wife and I have noticed that there are no birds on there at all. I mean completely gone. I hang the feeder up every morning full and take it in every evening (because of bears here in New Hampshire) full. I mean it’s REALLY creepy to see absolutely nothing out back every single day. They say animals can sense things coming that we humans can’t. Ah, maybe I’m just seeing too much into this.  — Larry Landolfi