What a week
May. 4th, 2012 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoMore birds: Red-headed woodpecker, at least one, is still here, spotted today several times. Indigo buntings in the yard just at dusk. We generally see a few each year, though many are in the general area by all accounts. I think our property is too heavily wooded for them. Really odd one was a warbler walking in the grass outside the library windows. Might have been a yellow warbler, but I couldn't see any streaks on the breast. Other possibility is Tennessee warbler but no russet cap on its head. Maybe females don't show that?
Still missing the rose-breasted grosbeaks and the white crowned sparrows we usually see passing through about now.
Wild cherry trees are coming into bloom now, nearly a month early. Honeysuckle, which is normally just opening now, is nearly past. Bee balm or Mountain mint are opening too. Wild cherry fragrance on the still air is overpowering.
Have to be up at 5 tomorrow to start the Audubon bird count at 6. If the sun comes out, it should be a good year. At least it is supposed to be reasonably warm and not overly windy.
Still missing the rose-breasted grosbeaks and the white crowned sparrows we usually see passing through about now.
Wild cherry trees are coming into bloom now, nearly a month early. Honeysuckle, which is normally just opening now, is nearly past. Bee balm or Mountain mint are opening too. Wild cherry fragrance on the still air is overpowering.
Have to be up at 5 tomorrow to start the Audubon bird count at 6. If the sun comes out, it should be a good year. At least it is supposed to be reasonably warm and not overly windy.
