Am I looking in the wrong place for or has the floating flowers from the event messed with the birds? It doesn't have an area in its name so I assumed it can appear almost anywhere in Subeta but no luck for 2 days. :(

People have been talking about it in the problems & bugs form here: Bird Watching Game

I think something like this happened last year too, the floating flowers either makes the birds not appear at all or makes them really super rare to appear now.

You can still find the birds, but it takes a lot more effort. I do the bird watching daily and I'm suspending it until Vesnali is over, just too much hassles trying to find the bird.

Its not officially a bug - its just that the bird is competing with flowers each time and the flowers are much more likely to appear in the first place, so that means the birds are very rare.

Thank you!

Ah I thought that was what was going on, I noticed this problem too

I too have noticed this problem and thought Vesnali was causing the problems with the birds.

Ah that explains it. I thought I was too stupid to find it. 😅