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The Joys of Spring Learn some of the joys of spring like bird calls, chirping, astronomy, lunar activity, blossoms and violets.
By Fred Schaaf
Birds are one of the many joys of Spring. Kirtland s warbler nests in north- central Michigan.
PHOTO: O.S. PETTINGILL/PHOTO RESEARCHERS, INC.
April and May are the heart of spring. The mathematical halfway point of the season is May 6; this is the point when Earth is between the March equinox and the June solstice positions in its orbit. But of course where you are in the U.S., Canada, or elsewhere in the northern temperate latitudes of our world will affect when the weather, fauna, and flora around you tell you that spring has truly arrived. Spring is really even more complicated, of course. It comes and goes at first, like a bird looking for a nesting spot, until it decides to stay.
Before the sun is a glimmer in the sky, Danny and I are up and about, preparing to meet our birding posse for the 121st Audubon Christmas Count, the enumeration of birds in December throughout the states, Canada and now, also, in Mexico as well as Central and South America.
The count circles are divided into territories for different groups to scan the skies, search bare branches and peer under bushes to find whatever winter residents and straggling migrants are flying and flitting about.
The warmish fall has turned into a winter wonderland, what with a foot and a half of snow and frigid temperatures. The constant threat of COVID has put a damper on this festive birding occasion. But we stalwart birders sally forth, though there will be no sharing of optics or food, as we practice social distancing and masking and travel about in our own cars.