Saw a robin in a
tree this morning eating some berries but may not necessarily be a sign of
spring. The Red-winged Blackbird is the first sign of spring seen here at Songbird Prairie over a week ago. visit SongbirdPrairie.com
Much like Punxsutawney Phil and his fellow groundhogs, sightings
of the American robin are considered by many to be a sign that spring either is
here or soon will be.
Or is it?
Recently, a couple friends and
I heard and spotted several of the orange-and-black feathered friends - the
state bird of Wisconsin, Michigan and Connecticut.
During a newsroom discussion of the sighting, fellow Daily Press
reporter Rick Olivo said he, too, saw several robins during a trip to Madison last
month. The environmental reporter in me immediately wondered whether evidence
of global climate change could now be seen outside my window: "I shouldn't
be seeing these birds for at least two or three more weeks," I thought.
As it turns out, some of the
birds choose not to live up to the second half of their species name, Turdus
migratorius. Instead, they opted to stick around northern Wisconsin and tough
out the winter like the rest of us - with the exception of the so-called human
"snow birds," of course. full article on By CHAD DALLY, The Daily
Press, Ashland
ASHLAND (AP)
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