Phenology notes from previous month:
- Osprey nesting
- Woodcocks "peent"ing
- Spring ephemerals coming up (e.g. bloodroot, hepatica, spring beauty)
- Grass greening
- First dandelions coming up
- Spring migrants arrive in droves, big flush still to come
- Colder species of amphibians singing in full force (toads, treefrogs, bullfrogs still to make their full debut)
- First leaves appearing in understory
- Maples starting to leaf out
- Sapsuckers returning, as second flush of sap starts flow (as non-maple species start to get sap flowing)
- Woodchucks are out and about
- First warm nights
- First 70 degree weather
- Fireflies out and about, not mating yet
- Shorts and t-shirts abound!
- Snow and ice has all melted
- Dawn chorus is louder and louder (starting around 5am with robins then chickadees then cardinals then song sparrows, at least near my house).
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