Finally! The southward migration of songbirds is becoming more intense.
The continuing story this spring is another cloudy rainy day with wind from the North and Northeast. Birdwatchers love their breeding birds but the challenge is finding migrants that you don’t regularly encounter.
We have had a string of less than ideal weather during recent Christmas Bird Counts.
We were lucky that we did not get battered by the Christmas storm!
A wish list of species I hope will be found before the end of the year are as follows.
I read that my neighbor on this page — Lynne Irons of The Vineyard Gardener — has observed all the fish crows that hang out around the Five Corners area.
Help us ring in the new year! The 63rd annual Martha's Vineyard Christmas Bird Count will be held Jan. 1.
