Date: 03/04/2001

Number: 1

Just to let you know that I have not heard any real territorial singing by
robins yet.Just a weak song,sung only sporadically by no more than one
individual.It is not the strong,regular song of a bird on territory.Many
robins about here,altthough the ground is still frozen and we are expected to
receive heavy snow for the next 24-36 hours.
Woodcock are displaying,and song sparrows and cardinals are singing-but not
much from robins.The snow will probably cause many woodcock deaths,as March
snows often do.I wonder why,in the course of time,woodcock have not delayed
their northward move until at least April.They depend upon finding worms,and
they can't do that in frozen ground or through a foot of snow.

Southport, CT

Latitude: 41.1 Longitude: -73.3

Observed by: Charles
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