While spring hasn’t officially arrived, it has sent its emissaries to cheer us.
Chickadees have changed their call to a raspy, “fee-bee,” something they do every spring just ahead of mating season. A flock of Canada geese flew over last week, another indicator of coming warmer weather. Lastly, large flocks of robins are in evidence all over, including in my yard and on my crabapple tree. There, these members of the thrush family pick the tiny, red crabapples that have made it through the winter. And instead of being “resident” robins, the kind that spend winters on the coast, these are present in sufficient numbers to tell me that they are true migrants, the red-red robins of spring. So there we have it. We’ll certainly see more cold weather and even some snow, but it means nothing. Spring stands at our doorstep and there’s no turning back.
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AuthorAn avid writer and naturalist, Tom writes four regular columns and a multitude of features. He wrote a long running award winning column "Waldo County Outdoors" and a garden column for Courier Publications Archives
November 2020
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