Through the Window: March 2012 – Early Spring Sightings

More birds! Did we have more time to watch? More visitors? Or is this the sign of spring? It was an extremely warm March, after all.

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  Wild Turkey

• Black-capped chickadee
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Blue Jay
• American Goldfinch
• Tufted Titmouse
• Northern Cardinal
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Downy Woodpecker (both male and female observed and noted)
• Mourning Dove
• American Robin
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Brown Creeper
• Red-winged Blackbird (3/8 FOY*)
• Common Grackle (3/9 FOY)
• Pine Siskin (3/10)
• American Crow
• Eastern Phoebe (heard 3/20 FOY; heard also the day before in Hanksville and then seen 3/31)
• Northern Goshawk (flew by 3/24)
• Song Sparrow
• Purple Finch
  

Other wonderful neighbors:

• Wood frogs (3/23 in pond!)
• Gray Squirrels
• Red Squirrels

* FOY = First of Year