I heard a cardinal singing at 7:00 a.m. on 2/11. THAT is also a sign of spring to me!
Hu Huth
Zanesville
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From: Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] First birds
But everyone knows Robins are the harbinger of spring!
Haans
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Turkey vultures and blackbirds can be false signs of spring. Snipes and
> rails can winter in Ohio, too, and there are even records of woodcocks
> doing so.
> Larry Rosche told me the other day that every winter of his birding
> career about half a million wintering blackbirds have been roosting in
> Barberton; there are some big winter roosts in western Lake Erie
> marshes, too. My folks used to host at least a hundred wintering TVs in
> their Ohio back yard every year. Bluebirds winter widely. No, the true
> first arrivals have to be birds only freakishly seen in the winter,
> regular species you can count on as infallible first arrivals of spring.
> I'd be interested in what species readers think really qualify as
> newsworthy in this way.
> Good candidates are pectoral sandpipers, chimney swifts, and
> Louisiana
> waterthrushes. Sure, tree swallows and purple martins can blunder in on
> a wing and a prayer, but pectorals and swifts have come all the way from
> South America, on a very deliberate itinerary and spring arrival time.
> Unlike a vulture loafing up from the next county south, their flocks
> can't risk everything on finding warm weather out of season. And the
> waterthrushes's voice in a chilly damp glen is all the more welcome for
> being the earliest promise kept among songbirds.
> Bill Whan
> Columbus
>
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