Spring birds arriving.

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Ah god I love the smell of spring. Although too many flies..
 
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I am still waiting for the bluebirds in my area.
Saw a sparrow hawk + couple of black ducks in South China today dropping in on my son, and 20-30 common grackles.
This morning going out the door I heard a wild turkey "gobbling" off from the woods/field next to us. Getting a bit cooler tonight- but drying from the wind.
Should be another few weeks before the rose breasted grosbeaks get up here.
 
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My wife saw 8 turkey vultures yesterday soaring above town. Until 10 years ago I never saw them north of Massachusetts. Pretty common now in the summer.\\I took the snowplow off the tractor today! Cleaned up the road to the backfield of the horse's droppings from all winter. No bugs yet. Field is much too wet to drive the tractor onto it- unless I want to leave it there till after mud season!
 
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I heard some spring peepers last week. The buzzards are returning. I mowed grass today. First time in my life that I can ever remember mowing the yard in March.
 
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2" of snow fell and the large flocks of robins are on the road edges where the now has melted looking for food- worms.


I heard a woodcock tonight while out with the horses just before it was dark. bzzzzzzzt bzzzzzzzt

It does this call as it climbs up into the air pretty high -- then it almost spirals down singing a bunch of trilling notes until it is back on the ground. Then it starts over. -Mating call/flight! I track it by the bzzzt call- can't always see it- but I can hear it! Fields/ edges/ brush/ light woods

pic off the net:
 
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Had six Purple Martins at the gourd house set today:
 

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2" of snow fell and the large flocks of robins are on the road edges where the now has melted looking for food- worms.


I heard a woodcock tonight while out with the horses just before it was dark. bzzzzzzzt bzzzzzzzt

It does this call as it climbs up into the air pretty high -- then it almost spirals down singing a bunch of trilling notes until it is back on the ground. Then it starts over. -Mating call/flight! I track it by the bzzzt call- can't always see it- but I can hear it! Fields/ edges/ brush/ light woods

pic off the net:

We had one doing it's thing at he edge of our drive a few years ago. It was dusk going on dark as we rolled up in the car. The windows were down, so heard the wierd noise and sat in the car, lights off and watched. Crazy little bird. Hope I am lucky enough to see another!
 
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What a great spot for martins! A neighbor had them for years- but moved.

Saw my first two bluebirds today- sitting on a de-limbed apple tree when we went to visit my son 1 1/2 hours south of us. The act a bit like phoebes- waiting for a bug to come by to grab. We still have snow- his snow is only in the woods. Head some peepers and another woodcock while we were there.

I'm grabbing pics off the net- to put pictures with the bird names.
1st is a male eastern bluebird, 2nd is a female eastern bluebird.
 
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The most wet March in recorded history here. Seeing birds that I have never seen before as well. 11+ inches of rain. The grass is growing gangbusters but to wet to mow. River just to the north is high, and will have to watch it before we might get cut off from the town. Only way out is the logging roads, and a 30-60 mile go around.
 
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We have many of the same birds showing up here. Our old reliable wood ducks are back but no purple martins or tree swallows yet. I'm off to clean out the nest boxes today.
 

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