Spring has sprung, so the birds are back
A variety of different winged visitors can be found at the Crooked River Wetlands Complex
Spring is here (yay!) and along with a change in greenery comes the arrival of spring bird migrants. This movement has already started with a trickle of early migrants (turkey vultures, swallows, Say s phoebes, red-winged blackbirds), will peak around mid-May (most of the songbirds) and tail off (no pun intended) with late migrants like the common nighthawk in late May. Some early migrants have probably arrived by the time you read this, including the cinnamon teal, which usually shows up around March 24 and the osprey on March 25.