Winter residents are plentiful and northbound migrants start to arrive during March in the birding world. Migrant species including red-winged blackbirds, tree swallows, killdeer and American robins arrive along with spring. Winter visitors like snowy owls depart.

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Wood duck. – Lanny McDowell
Double-crested cormorants. – Lanny McDowell
Greater yellow-legs. – Lanny McDowell
Osprey are back. – Lanny McDowell
First piping plovers of the season arrive. – Lanny McDowell
Osprey. – Lanny McDowell
Dunlin. – Lanny McDowell
American oystercatcher. – Lanny McDowell
Black-bellied plovers. – Lanny McDowell
Black-bellied plover. – Lanny McDowell
Brown creeper blends in. – Lanny McDowell
Eastern bluebird. – Lanny McDowell
Ring-necked pheasant. – Lanny McDowell
American robin during winter. – Lanny McDowell
American robin in summer dress. – Lanny McDowell
American oystercatcher. – Lanny McDowell
Red-winged blackbird. – Lanny McDowell
Northern shoveler and his super-sized bill is worth seeing. – Lanny McDowell
Red-winged blackbirds, harbinger of spring. – Lanny McDowell
Ring-necked duck. – Lanny McDowell
Killdeer have started to arrive on Island. – Lanny McDowell
Golden-crowned kinglet. – Lanny McDowell
Merlin. – Lanny McDowell
Peregrine falcon. – Lanny McDowell
Golden-crowned kinglet. – Lanny McDowell
Merlin displays its feathers. – Lanny McDowell
Swamp sparrow. – Lanny McDowell

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