Following the snowstorm earlier in the week, temperatures rebounded nicely, reaching the 70s today and the migration rebounded as well. In addition to our first butterfly, a Mourning Cloak yesterday and our first Laughing Gull yesterday, Fred Blystone and I have counted more than a hundred vultures and hawks over the past 2 days, about equalling our February total. Today we saw our first American Kestrel, a species whose totals here have been under 20 for the past 4 years. Hundreds of Tree Swallows and Ring-billed Gulls and nearly a hundred Fish Crows moved north across the river as well.
Brian Taber
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk, by Steve Thornhill
