My spring birds
The spring birds seemed to arrive literally overnight.
Yesterday, the morning after the "Supermoon," I heard white-throated sparrows (which always remind me of summer in Ayer's Cliff) and spotted the first robin; then, this morning, a horde of starlings were hopping around the tree outside my kitchen window, being the first smarties to feast on the pile of bread crusts and leftover cooked rice that I had piled on the ground a few days ago. I'm glad someone finally got around to eating that rather unsightly mess.
Finally, I was inordinately pleased to see this little fellow, the red-capped woodpecker, clinging to my feeder.
Throughout the winter I had mostly chickadees and a regular pair of blue jays, so this influx of new "faces" is nice to see.
And now, having written about spring, a light snow has just started to fall.
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I'm a good bit further south than you are so theoretically, I think by now I should have seen a robin or two, but thus far, I haven't. However, the weather lately has been very, VERY, springlike. But -another however here -I am not counting chickens before they hatch or robins before I've seen them because I saw something online from one of the forecasters I used to work with in which he stated another storm is heading this week, one a bit like the one we had hit here about three weeks ago Sunday and which kind of took a lot of folks by surprise. So, until May, or someone gives me a "NO SNOW" guarantee, I'm gonna stay alert and on the lookout for some more white fluffy stuff. Wish it won't happen but I do fear it will. (Good to see a post from you again too, Terry!)
Up here we were told that March came in like a lion and will go out the same way. We had a fairly short but intense blizzard yesterday and more snow is expected in the next few days. I don't mind much, since it puts off the inevitable melt which always reveals the brown crud and filth of early spring.
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