It is spring. Birds are mating and they are coming and going. About a month ago, the dark-eyed juncos (snowbirds) left. The white-throated sparrows (chipmunk birds) actually increased in number, then at the beginning of May, they also disappeared, although I keep seeing singleton stragglers. The yellow-rumped warblers and ruby-crowned kingbirds are also gone.
Other birds have come in from the south. The catbirds are here. They are all over the place. Starlings and cowbirds maraud our lawn. Brown thrashers come by our feeders and stand up high in trees singing their doublet songs. An indigo bunting showed up briefly in our yard. The most prominent summer birds in our lawn are a pair of great crested flycatchers which have set up a nest in our martin house. I put out the hummingbird feeder, and in a few days, a hummingbird appeared. He now is a regular visitor.
I still have yet to see grackles, but I suppose sooner or later they will come.
No comments:
Post a Comment