Firsts of the Year and Slingshot Birds
Prothonotary Warbler Early spring is a time of many firsts for the nature watcher. Sometimes slowly, sometimes in bursts, locally slumbering critters are coming online every day. Many of us heard our first spring peepers this past week, a welcome auditory sign of spring. On Saturday alone, when a happy coincidence of good weather and a day-off allowed me to leave my house, I racked up my first butterflies (mourning cloak and cabbage white), first wood frogs, first snake (garter snake), and first significant patch of blooming flowers (a lovely lawn weed called bird’s-eye-speedwell). Sunday ...
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