Just for future information....

[jennlk]

because I want to keep track of this.

Today the red-winged blackbirds showed up. There were none yesterday, and this morning there are a couple dozen in the yard. Hrm. that may not be quite true -- when we got home from church yesterday there were a flock of black birds in the front yard, but I assumed they were starlings. The birds today are definitely red-winged blackbirds.

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[icyfeetofdeath.livejournal.com]

I was amused to hear a bird this morning just in time for sunrise, amidst all the new snow.

Optimistic bugger. The cat was not impressed (but then, she never is).

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I have a strident bird that hangs out in my magnolia. I don't know what kind of bird it is, but it is obsessed with informing me loudly, each morning quite early, that it is in my magnolia and has pwned my magnolia and everybody else is not invited to my magnolia TYVM.

I can't see it. But boy howdy, can I hear it.

[jebra.livejournal.com]

Amusingly/frustratingly, one of my UPSs needs to have the batteries replaced. Its way of alerting me to this? It imitates a red-winged blackbird.

[isherempress.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen the r-w bs yet, but the mourning doves have returned. A friend who lives on the southeast side of GR posted pics of bluebirds on FB yesterday. Kim tells me she's seen bluebirds in Blandford (the nature center just down the road from us) but my view of nature tends to be whatever is outside the window.

@Gabe: where the hell is that LIKE button? You crack me up.

[jennlk]

We have doves all winter. J tells me he saw a pair of bluebirds on his way home from work one day last week.