Subject: Meadowlarks (and approaching spring)
Date: Jan 3 18:07:52 1999
From: bboek at olympus.net - bboek at olympus.net


You're right, Dan, spring (or at least breeding activities) is springing.
It's amazing that birds seem to respond to the most imperceptible
changes in something, be it photoperiod, temperature, or whatever, to get
those little gonads humming. I can add that the Song Sparrows have been
singing with surprising vigor in the morning during the last week in
Sequim.

Bob Boekelheide
Sequim


>On Thomle road there was a flock of about a thousand Red-winged Blackbirds,
>with a few of the males displaying their bright red epaulets as they fed in
>the grass. Spring must be just around the corner.
>
>Dan Logen
>Stanwood, Wa