House Finch Pair
It is time to pair off for some of our resident and more hardy passerine species, like the male and female House Finch below. You have undoubtedly heard their rolling and cheery spring song by now in your yard or across your favorite patch. Buds and leaves will be filling up these branches in mere weeks.
Read MorePalm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) by Scott Kruitbosch
This Palm Warbler is wondering what’s taking so long, too – where are our leaves?! Soon…very soon…
Read MoreThe weather of this slowww spring
Is it spring? How about now? This could turn into an, “are we there yet?!” routine rather quickly if we cannot manage to move the ridge to the East and get a consistent southerly flow soon! I think we all know it was an extremely cold winter for New England and the Mid-Atlantic but here’s more evidence if you needed to be convinced. Temperature departures of that magnitude across such large swaths of the nation are incredible. It’s notable to have a single month more than a few degrees one way or the other, forget three with huge areas 6 to 8 degrees below average and...
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