At this time of year, when heading outside, I stop and listen. The sounds are changing, every morning there are more bird songs as migrants return from their wintering grounds. Even if you don’t know the specific songs and calls of different species,.
So this is it. The biggest week in the birding calendar. The week when, as far as topics go, I have 50 rare birds to pick from, a hundred interesting happenings in backyard breeding bird biology to discuss, and two dozen charming birding anecdotes to relate.