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NEWS FROM THE NORTHERN OBSERVATION POSTS
April 26, 2005
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Joy
Hamilton: Innoko
River School, Shageluk, AK
April 9: First
robin singing!!
Mike Sterling: Anchorage, AK
April 19: Lots of activity this week: bald eagles
playing
in
the
rising
air
currents
reflecting
off the lake that gives our school
its name; geese everywhere; swans coming by in pairs; gulls making
their appearances at the same time the ravens mysteriously disappear
for the summer. The bears are already starting to browse garbage
cans up in my Hillside neck of the woods along 500,000 acre Chugach
State Park. Certainly, all signs of spring.
Wayne Dwornik: Lethbridge, AB
April 18: no new sightings. nor singing - 2 crows hanging out and more cats....
maybe that's why!?
Jill Rogers: Corner Brook, NF
April 23: No robins yet. We still have quite a bit of the white stuff, and it's
been cold.
Marc Landry: Beresford, NB
April 15: More migrant today. I saw a red wing black bird and common crackle.
April 17: 2 days of warm weather (15oC) and the robins are singing and showing
territorial behaviours. Snow is melting very fast and the perennials are starting
to show signs of growth.
Nancy Seamans: Quispamsis, NB
April 19: What an early start to spring... It has been beautiful here... 15 degrees
C and much warmer in the sun. T shirt weather...yahoo! The robins, as well as
all the other birds, are singing their little hearts out. The crow was pulling
at my dead leaves from last year, wanting them for her nest I suppose.
Chris Owens, Homer, Alaska
April 19: Possible sighting of robins in area recently - maybe varied thrush?
or over wintering robins? The sand hill cranes are arriving though! Weather is
going back and forth - snow, rain, sunny... can't decide what season it is.
Stan White, Homer, Alaska
April 19: Snow? Yes. Cold? Yes. Geese? Yes! Robins. No.
Margot Hervieux, Grande Prairie, AB
April 12: Not only did I see a robin this morning but I heard one singing. They
are definitely back.
Richard and Vi Darling, Nipawin, SK
April 14: On Thursday morning at 7 a.m. April 14th, 2005 I heard and then saw
our first robin.
April 15th: a cold, strong west wind is keeping all birds out
of the sky. However, our snow is now gone and the grass is beginning to turn
green! Soon the farmers will roll out their giant air-seeders and begin planting
Canola, wheat, barley, flax, oats, and peas for
another year.
April 19: The robin was singing again this morning at 6:30 a.m. when I went for
my jog. Nice, sunny days now (down to freezing at night, up to 18-20 C (70 F)
each day--great for us. The farmers are getting ready to use their big air-seeders
on the fields as soon as the fields are dry enough. In the meantime, the sparrows,
juncos, and purple finches are eating all the
black sunflower seeds I put out.
Sara Hepner, Sterling, AK
April 20: Not one robin ... It snowed on Sunday night and all of Monday, and
it's been rainy and cold since. All birds are huddled up at home in front of
their fireplaces.
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