crazyfingers
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Watch out up there! My Dark Eyed Juncos appear to have all but disappeared!
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First signs of Spring 2015 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter dantheman
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Watch out up there! My Dark Eyed Juncos appear to have all but disappeared!
crazyfingers
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Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
A bunch of seasonal firsts this weekend: Palm and pine warbler, Louisiana waterthrush, brown thrasher, osprey, blue-winged teal.
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
Still a few left here in PA, but numbers are clearly down.
crazyfingers
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ovenbird43
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Saw a group of Rusty Blackbirds on Saturday.
Today along Lake Ontario:
Great Blue Herons - nest building
American Robin - nest building
Tree Swallows
Barn Swallow
Field Sparrow
Eastern Phoebe
Common Loon - heard one giving its full wailing call from out on the lake - first time I've ever gotten to hear that!
Also a couple of spring peepers and some other unidentified frog calling, garter snakes out basking
Today along Lake Ontario:
Great Blue Herons - nest building
American Robin - nest building
Tree Swallows
Barn Swallow
Field Sparrow
Eastern Phoebe
Common Loon - heard one giving its full wailing call from out on the lake - first time I've ever gotten to hear that!
Also a couple of spring peepers and some other unidentified frog calling, garter snakes out basking
crazyfingers
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Boro Birder
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why its our most glorious time of the year
Please enlighten me Why don't you like spring, best time of the year
Damian
Please enlighten me Why don't you like spring, best time of the year
Damian
crazyfingers
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??????? I love spring. American Robin loves spring. Worm has no brain to understand.
Boro Birder
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Goosanders on 11 eggs, the other one was in the next tree not 20 ft apart but she wouldn't budge, nests visited for the BTO Nest Record Scheme (NRS).
Also Lapwings and Stonechat and Woodlark down, plus plenty off vis mig. Spring or is definitely here.
Damian
Also Lapwings and Stonechat and Woodlark down, plus plenty off vis mig. Spring or is definitely here.
Damian
Boro Birder
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my fault
It's only early (just after 4am) so not fully awake yet, didn't take much notice of the pic, no offense meant pal
Damian
It's only early (just after 4am) so not fully awake yet, didn't take much notice of the pic, no offense meant pal
Damian
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Around here, we have a saying, maybe you use it too:
"It's not the robin, it's the worm" (that is the sign of spring)
...since robins are around - but largely out of sight - all winter. Just saw my first robin-with-annelid this past Sunday, it was an uplifting sight.
crazyfingers
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Ticks! I hate them. Time to spray my sneakers again. Plucked two off today and all I did was walk in my yard.
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
Me too! Our dogs allready had one.
crazyfingers
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I heard the first bats of the season last night. They live under the roof of my garage.
I also realized that I have NOT seen any chipmunks yet this spring. They are late.
I also realized that I have NOT seen any chipmunks yet this spring. They are late.
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Oh, they're out there, all right.
At our house, we have a small "mud room" attached to the back door of our walk out basement. We keep sunflower seed and millet in a large garbage bin in there - don't worry about keeping a lid on it, usually, because there's a second door between the "mud room" and the back patio.
Well yesterday, as I approached this room from the inside, I heard a rustling coming from the bin. As I started to open the door, a little chipmunk head, cheeks bulging, poked out of the top of the sunflower seed bag! It had, evidently, chewed its way into the mud room by enlarging a small gap between the floor and one of the walls, and been carrying off seed all day...
"Bad rodent!" I said - "Bad!" I doubt he'll pay much attention, though. I have now had to put the lid on, and weigh it down with a big bag of salt.
crazyfingers
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The first thing the chipmunks do here is go strait to the pile of seeds under the bird feeder. Then they run across my driveway and hang out on the stone wall. None of that yet here so far but I'll keep watching.
Except for the Nyjer, it's time for me to shut down the feeder. Only the multitude of house sparrows now are using up the seed and the grackles are scarfing up two suets a day and leave a total mess of suet scrap on the squirrel frustration cone such that it sticks there and gives the squirrels traction to get up on the suet too.
I tend to stop feeding the birds in the spring around this time anyway, except for the nyger, as it attracts too many rodents.
crazyfingers
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I just checked the several chipmunk holes that open onto my lawn. They have been in there for years. So far the mated grass and leaves covering the holes have not been disturbed.
ovenbird43
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Chipping Sparrow singing this morning. Dark-eyed Juncos are still around and also singing.
Edward
Umimmak
Displaying Golden Plover and drumming Snipe in Reykjavík this morning are really signs of the Icelandic spring. Also heard singing Goldcrest yesterday which was great as we were beginning to think that this winter might have wiped them out. This is the first week since sometime in November when I've been confident of not encountering any ice when out on my bike.
