Date: 04/01/1999

Number: 1

At 6:30 am we heard our first robin singing! This is the first year (thanks to JNorth) that I knew that this was our very own robin, so that made the event pretty exciting! While listening to the robin, we caught the first sight of our returning wrens (They next in the bluebird boxes!) and then heard the song of the white-throat sparrow for the first time, though they have been around for most of the winter. The chick-a-dees are singing "phoebe" and the Eastern phoebes have returned to nest on our back porch. The daffodils are popping open also. I'm beginning to suspect these are all related! Traveling north on Thursday to the Adirondacks for the last skiing of the season we saw robins everywhere, even where there was still snow and we saw a pair of mergansers in the upper Hudson River.

Washingtonville, NY

Latitude: 41.4 Longitude: -74.2

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