Through the Window: March 2012 – Early Spring Sightings
More birds! Did we have more time to watch? More visitors? Or is this the sign of spring? It was an extremely warm March, after all.
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An Early Spring View from Our Window
Wild Turkey
- Black-capped chickadee
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Blue Jay
- American Goldfinch
- Tufted Titmouse
- Northern Cardinal
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Downy Woodpecker (both male and female observed and noted)
- Mourning Dove
- American Robin
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Red-winged Blackbird (3/8 FOY*)
- Common Grackle (3/9 FOY)
- Pine Siskin (3/10)
- American Crow
- Eastern Phoebe (heard 3/20 FOY; heard also the day before in Hanksville and then seen 3/31)
- Northern Goshawk (flew by 3/24)
- Song Sparrow
- Purple Finch
Other wonderful neighbors:
- Wood frogs (3/23 in pond!)
- Gray Squirrels
- Red Squirrels
* FOY = First of Year
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