>If you wait until March 21 to put up your feeder, you'll
>have missed the peak for hummingbirds, swallows and (I
>think) Turkey Vultures: the three species by which I have
>gauged the arrival of spring for the last 27 years.


That's some feeder you have. I can see how you could pull the Turkey
Vultures in with a cow carcass, but how do get those swallows? I find it
hard to keep the gnats tied up so the swallows can grab them without getting
tangled in the gnat leashes.

Kelly Cassidy
Seattle