Date: 4/23/25 5:17 am From: Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> Subject: [birders] Is Spring springing or what?
I took a road-trip to the Everglades in January and it really wrecked my sense of timing. Until this January, I’d overwintered someplace cold for 65 years with the exception of 1981 when they sent me to the Middle East. I’m wondering about migration and nesting. There was a wave of migrators in March and then nothing here. The Bluebirds I heard then have been gone until just yesterday. Am I too late to get nesting Wood Ducks and Chickadees? Everything feels like they should be in full swing but, Trillium are just emerging, Trout Lillys just just starting to bloom etc. I’ve seen Morning Cloaks over the last couple weeks, heard Chorus Frogs and Spring Peepers and we have our first Wood Frog tadpoles in the vernal ponds. Yesterday a Wooly Bear caterpillar was sunning itself on the walkway. For this late in April, things seem slow. I think I get this way every year. It’s like that commercial about the ketchup in the bottle.
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