What can we say about the marvelous month of May? In the bird world, the frenzy of spring migration is coming to an end. With clear weather dominating for most of April and early May, we simply did not get big numbers of migratory birds dropping in for a day or two before continuing their journey north. I missed some of my favorite “ooh” birds. I never saw a rose-breasted grosbeak, a scarlet tanager, or even a prairie warbler.
The birds that nest here – summer tanager, blue grosbeak, indigo bunting, and Mississippi and swallow-tailed kites, and many more – are settling into their summer homes at places like Sterling Creek Park in Richmond Hill, the Kingfisher Pond area of Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, and Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, as well as many of our suburban and urban neighborhoods.