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Golden-Crowned Sparrow
In the bird world, the first days of May represent a clear and consistent transition point. While it seems like a few things are back early every year, stoking our hopes through the latter half of April, things don’t really get going until we flip that calendar page. The first two days of this May brought, as usual, a slew of newly arrived breeding birds to my neighborhood and beyond:
Great-crested Flycatchers, Gray Catbirds, House Wrens, Yellow Warblers, and on and on. Even hummingbirds, those ambitious little sprites that start returning amidst the uncertain weather of mid-April, are not really, truly “back” until May comes around – only then will you typically see more than one at a time. Why is this? Do birds know what month it is too?