The goldfinches at my feeder have felt more than a little crowded lately. Competing strangers with tiny, sharp bills and pushy attitudes have arrived in enormous numbers from the far north. Diminutive pine siskins are now staging a phenomenal invasion as their seed crop has failed them this year.Unlike our abundant crop of acorns here, the 2020 production of their favorite conifer seeds from pines, cedars, larches, hemlocks, and spruces has overall been poor from southeast Alaska […]