2024 Birding Journal Observations - March / April

Male House Finch feeding a juvenile 4/26

Another mild winter came with a deluge of rain in March and April that recharged swamps to 'high tide' levels. This wet footprint on the landscape may have helped lead to several cool mornings and a fine Spring season. The neotropical migration season that comes during March and April seemed a bit delayed this year, with many first sighting not coming until April, and then many of those sightings were fleeting glimpses of birds that were solidly on the move to the North. Indigo bunting, Orchard oriole and rose-breasted grosbeak just cruised on through while blue grosbeak and summer tanager took up their stations for the remainder of the summer. The first hummingbirds I saw in Mid-April were migratory, and the ones electing to stick around came later in April.

Hawk in a Tree 4/10

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Swallow-tailed Kite and Wood Stork 4/3