Early Birds

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here is a good article with video about the shift in bird behavior responding to climate change. Birds are nesting earlier, which can put them out of synch with their food sources.

Here at Fieldhaven, there's already a pair of wrens building a nest. Usually birds don't start nesting until April, or May for some species. Some animals are stirring but there aren't many bugs yet. I found the cats playing with a young rat snake today, the snake being too cold to move much. So I picked him up with a stick and moved him to a woodpile where he could hide. I'm still filling the birdfeeders -- the flicker has become a regular at the hopper, and the wrens are fond of the suet.

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[jl-johnson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in the last few years I've noticed the robins back early. There's a next in the underside of the roof of our well.

Also, the geese don't seem to leave. There was a news report on how the geese aren't leaving, turns out the ones we have here are from farther north and spend the winter here instead of farther south.