According to reports I have heard, all of Canada is going to have a colder than normal winter because of the effects of La Nina.

Now the odd thing is that unlike the previous two years, I have no birds at my bird feeder and neither does my neighbour. All the chickadees and nuthatches seem to have disappeared around the end of September. We both dumped the seed and loaded it with fresh stuff, thinking that it had perhaps gone mouldy and that is why they were not about.

I'm beginning to think our little feathered friends know something that we in Canada's banana belt don't and have flown off to California. Please treat them well Amos.

I'm going to check back on this thread come spring, to see if the birds were as good at predictions as the weatherman was.