Look Who's Back!

Look who's back! I love the return of the birds that fled south for the winter :)

Today, March 7th: The robins are back! One day later than last year:



The common grackles returned yesterday, March 6th - 4 days earlier than last year. Also yesterday, I heard a mourning dove coo - 5 days earlier than last year.

The red winged blackbirds made it back WAY early - one showed up Feb 13th! He called for one day, then laid low for a couple weeks, though still visited my feeders. Then, this past week, many more RWBB's showed up, and they all started singing and displaying - right about on time compared to last year (March 2nd).

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Rumblings of Spring

The red-winged blackbirds came back March 2nd. The robins came back March 6th.

On March 10th, their grackle buddies showed up, and on March 11th, the mourning doves started cooing again.

Spring is in the air!

Look who stopped by

Look who stopped by today!

Woohooooo!! C'mon, spring!!!

The first robins of 2008!

Red-winged Blackbirds Return

The red-winged blackbirds have returned! They arrived in my yard on March 2, 2008.

I finally pulled the pictures off of my camera, and holy cow, I'm in love! I'm so glad they're back!! I swear it's the same one that came back first last spring. They're my "spark bird" - the bird that got me into birding. He's so handsome!!!


Click the photo to see more - there are a handful of pics of him up on my Flickr.

I heart the red-winged blackbird!!

Please, spring, come soon!