Towhees are amazing, Jack. Song sparrows are usually mixed in with them, for some reason.

I love when they visit . I especially wait to see and hear Varied Thrushes. Among the most beautiful deep woods songs I've ever heard.

My first two robins showed up late yesterday early evening, around dusk. Love to hear them sing.

Boat tail Grackles pulled in this morning.

I was gone last week, but when I got home the Red winged blackbirds and Grackles were here, Also a Bufflehead was resting on the pond.

Was out and about today and saw the first Turkey Buzzard, Wood ducks, Kildeers, and a Meadow Lark of the year.

Spring peepers heard singing last night and it was 75 here yesterday with a couple Dragon flies out and about. Domestic ducks have been laying for a week now.

Bunch of robins out picking worms in the yard and geese are pairing up, flying over morning and evening to their local spring nesting areas.

Saw about 50-60 sand hill cranes in a field along the highway , next billboard was for a seed treatment to discourage the cranes from eating your seed.

The cranes can't read...

Been seeing a few robins and buzzards. Not many doves yet.

no but what a sales pitch to any one on their way to the seed dealer

I suspect the seed treatment makes the crane sick so it stops eating your seed before they have a half mile of a row un-planted

A pair of Blue -winged Teal showed up yesterday and also the first Bluebird of the year.

Brown Thrashers and Catbirds showed up today and I think I heard a RB Grossbeak, which is kinda early, they usually travel with Orioles.

Grouse are hooting from the hillsides here. Been chasing them. Swans showed up a couple weeks ago.

Was out on the prairie pasture and heard an upland Piper and a Bobolink yesterday, both very unique sounding birds.

The coots got here a couple days ago. I saw one gold finch and have not seen any more yet. The caragana is leafing out before they get here.

Sparrow migration arrived, White-throated, White-crowned and Lincoln’s in past couple days.

Was in the boreal forest on the weekend ; saw/heard 34 species, Ruffies are drumming all day long, woodcock are on display when it is warm at nights, numerous newly made pairs of Trumpters are fighting over several beaver ponds...what a ruskuseeeeeeee. Phoebes are back,
candle ice on the lakes but rivers are open
3 species of overwintering butterflies observed

Got my first Rufus hummer yesterday. He was tapping on the window and then the door glass , demanding I put out the feeder for him. I did.

Cassins Finches are here, they look like chocolate covered cherries and such a lovely song. Lots of siskins, juncos, and robins . Swallows are here too.

The Varied Thrushes dont sing near long enough. Miss them already.

Wish there are Meadowlarks here . Too woodsy for them.

First Oriole of the year this morning, Bats have been active for a week. Bluebirds fighting over the nesting boxs.

Also dug the first Ramps of the season.