Harbingers of spring

Tufted Titmouse - photo by Bruce Yolton


I asked Jack Meyer, daily Central Park bird monitor and leader of bird walks, to let me know the first time he hears a real spring bird song. On Wednesday he wrote:

This morning by the Riviera there was a Red-winged Blackbird practicing a few gurgles. Just one phrase out of the song.
Jack

and

Though winter weather had set in, on the same morning, at 7:30, the Early Birders heard a Tufterd Titmouse singing its spring breeding song--- Pe-ter, Pe-ter!

Moral: Nature's seasons are not the same as calendar seasons