As March comes to an end \u2013 an unusually warm and dry month this year \u2013 mornings are full of birdsong. Eastern Bluebirds are nesting. Many of our winter resident birds have begun to sing \u2013 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, White-throated Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers \u2013 along with year-round residents like Cardinals, Chickadees, Brown Thrashers and almost all the others. Woodpeckers are drumming. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are still here, tapping quietly away, Dark-eyed Juncos still forage in the grass and dry leaves, and the high \u201cseet-seet-seet\u201d of Golden-crowned Kinglets, the brittle mews of Cedar Waxwings, and an occasional twanging \u201cvreee!\u201d or low \u201cchup!\u201d of a Hermit Thrush are still heard. The only winter birds I\u2019ve not seen recently are the Rusty Blackbirds. Their small flocks were a regular presence in our neighborhood for many weeks, but I think they\u2019ve moved on now.<\/p>\n
March also saw the return of the first spring migrants. I heard the first song of a Blue-headed Vireo March 20; both Louisiana Waterthrush and Black and White Warbler March 21; and the bright \u201cspee-spee!\u201d of a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher March 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As March comes to an end \u2013 an unusually warm and dry month this year \u2013 mornings are full of birdsong. Eastern Bluebirds are nesting. Many of our winter resident birds have begun to sing \u2013 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, White-throated Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers \u2013 along with year-round residents like Cardinals, Chickadees, Brown Thrashers and almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}