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Saturday, April 30. 2022

Our North American songbird migration: Excellent

In the Northeast, our songbirds arrive mostly in May.



Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 13:30 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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Not a songbird but our first Hummingbird showed up yesterday in WNC.
#1 snopercod on 2021-04-10 14:11 (Reply)
I live out in the woods and have never understood how a hummingbird remembers where our feeder is. He (or she) went right to it after 9 months.
#1.1 snopercod on 2021-04-10 20:24 (Reply)
They showed up here in South Jersey last week. The like the red honeysuckle vine, the feeder, and later in the season, the lantanas in the pot we always have on the deck.
#1.2 Hairless Joe on 2022-05-01 09:03 (Reply)
What a wonderful show, I had no idea about there migration. Thank you.
#2 Tim McCann on 2021-04-10 14:26 (Reply)
Here in upstate SC, I had my first hummingbird mid-March. One stayed and fed each day during the cold snap prior to Easter. Each day I was happy to see it had survived the freezing temps of the night before. Songbirds have been abounding since late February; most of them move on, heading north.
#3 SCReader on 2021-04-11 09:15 (Reply)
That was wonderful. We usually sit out on the porch in the late afternoon watching birds, but casually, and without a lot of specific bird knowledge. I'd been noticing unusually colorful birds lately. Our perch is an upstairs porch that gives us a close-up view of the upper oak canopy and a longer-distance view of a brushy marsh.

Around here (Gulf Coast near Corpus Christi) the migration that grabs everyone's attention is the hummingbirds in September. I guess hummers are the counterexample to the usual pattern: they come through casually in spring, but really bunch up in the fall, especially when wind-bound and waiting for a good Norther. I'll keep my eyes more peeled this month for the arrival of neotropical migrators in the afternoons as we enjoy the April migration.
#4 Texan99 on 2021-04-11 09:21 (Reply)
Hummingbirds aren't shy. But if one comes up to you without you seeing it, it sounds like a giant wasp. Making you flinch, scaring off the hummingbird.
#5 LS (Link) on 2021-04-11 09:45 (Reply)
I've noticed that too. They are definitely checking you out. Very cool.
#5.1 Hairless Joe on 2022-05-01 09:04 (Reply)
The Whip-Poor-Wills are back. Every morning at 5AM, one perches outside our bedroom window and wakes us up. Man, they're LOUD.
#6 snopercod on 2021-04-12 07:32 (Reply)
And they hide in the smallest of bushes incredibly well, so that if you go out in wild frustration in your shorts and try to scare them off they go silent and you can't see them. They you go inside and they start again. That's the Bob-whites, anyway. When you tent near one your only solution is to move.
#6.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-05-01 15:43 (Reply)
We have a bunch of brown-headed cowbirds at the moment. Never seen them before. Tons of sparrows, too. I don't recall seeing them before.
#7 snopercod on 2022-04-30 18:36 (Reply)
The cardinals are going nuts this weekend here in San Antonio.
#8 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-04-30 18:51 (Reply)
The spring songbird seems to have missed us this year. It's been very dry. Maybe they re-routed.
#9 Texan99 on 2022-05-01 09:28 (Reply)
Oh yeah, we have an Indigo Bunting, too.
#10 snopercod on 2022-05-01 12:59 (Reply)

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