Date: 03/11/2006

Number: 1

Since last weekend, the land has filled up with birds. The killdeer came back--it seems all at once, since they couldn't be heard at all before last weekend and now they are heard just about everywhere around Ann Arbor. Redwings came back, in littler sprinkles. Here and there we'd see perched a bold pioneer, clutching a cattail. Now many ponds have some redwing activity. We hear the characteristic burbly territorial calls.
Oh yes--a very significant newcomer: the turkey vulture. Just a few are back, but how glad we are to see them. There's a lot of clean-up work for them to do. They certainly come back to a good food source!
About the robins: many more waves have come in this last week. We think that a wave of females has arrived, as our lone territorial-claiming robin now seems to have a mate at his berry tree.
Robins are everywhere, on lawns, at pond's edge, in the city, in the country. They hop across the ground, in a somewhat relaxed manner, seen individually or i

Ann Arbor, MI

Latitude: 42.3 Longitude: -83.8

Observed by: Connie
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