2021 Birding Journal Observations - March / April

Juvenile male summer tanager

 A wet winter continued through all of March, the then just like that things began to dry out in April. In fact, From April 1 until April 23 was the 16th longest stretch on record without any rainfall. The Lowcountry received around two-inches of rain on April 24 to restore a glow of green to the landscape, and was welcomed by our famers. The annual spring migration of neotropical songbirds started slowly in April with a few ruby-throated hummingbirds showing up at long-established birding outposts, and by the last week of April a big push of bird life brought in all the rest of this colorful flock.

The migration is not over, and May 1 (today) I glimpsed the male black-throated blue warbler for the first time! Now is a great time to keep the bird feeder filled and to provide fresh water at birdbaths too!!

April sightings include painted bunting, Indigo bunting, blue grosbeak, rose-breasted grosbeak, summer tanager, brown-heads cowbird, grey catbird, wood stork, swallow-tailed kite, Canada goose, cardinal, bluebird, blue jay, mockingbird, brown thrasher, osprey, bald eagle and wild turkey.

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Indigo Bunting