Spring Is Upon Us

[Duffman]

Today's sign of spring at the office.

 

[leech~~]

3 hours ago, Duffman said:

Today's sign of spring at the office.

 

 

Got any Tips tricks and helpful hints? 

[Mike89]

more sand hill cranes here and on the ground feeding....

[fishingstar]

seen a gopher on the way home from work today.

[Storm]

On 3/25/2018 at 5:06 PM, smurfy said:

well i was told by parents and grandparents the blue heron were!!!!!! must be the german thing!

 

anywho..........i did see my first blue heron today and a killdeer!!!!!!!!! so it must be when the loons are back spring truly arrives!!!!

I’ve seen a few blue herons in the twin cities area and even my first loon of the year on Sunday! It will have to stay on the river for a little while from

the looks of the weather though coming up. Still quite a bit of ice on the lakes.

[Mike89]

just watched a blur heron land on the lake, first one of the year!!

[knoppers]

not a good sign when the snow geese are flying south today.

[Mike89]

36 minutes ago, knoppers said:

not a good sign when the snow geese are flying south today.

 

 

they call that OH NO!!!!! too funny!!

[delcecchi]

I remember hearing a story about the giant Canada Geese here in Rochester some years back.   They had some collared so knew where they went.   It was a nice spring and one day, most of the geese that wintered on Silver Lake were gone.   A day or two later, they were back.   Tracking indicated they had flown to Hudson's bay only to find the area ice and snow covered...  So they flew back to Rochester.  

 

Took a couple days round trip.

[half-dutch]

On 3/24/2018 at 8:48 AM, smurfy said:

spring truly really doesn't arrive till the ole slew pumpers show up........... blue herons. i have noticed more birds lately at the feeders so its a good start. that all all this snow forecasted didn't show up either!!!!!

First shypoke Sat evening flying down Minnehaha Creek toward Meadowbrook Lake. 

[eyeguy 54]

lots of activity today on the feeders

[Mike89]

snow now there??  good pic'c!!!!

[JBMasterAngler]

Is that a purple finch or house finch? I had several show up at my feeders for the first time of the season today, and couldn’t determine which they were. 

 

Also, found a dead redpoll by the feeders. Poor guy  wonder what happened to him. 

[eyeguy 54]

9 hours ago, JBMasterAngler said:

Is that a purple finch or house finch? I had several show up at my feeders for the first time of the season today, and couldn’t determine which they were. 

 

Also, found a dead redpoll by the feeders. Poor guy  wonder what happened to him. 

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purple finch. I will see if I can get a pic of both when more come thru. We have a few house finches around all winter. Female purles are pretty easy to spot and they will be with the males. Darker lines than the female house finches. maybe more will pop by today.

[eyeguy 54]

here are a few pics from 2 springs ago that I had on here.  

Purple

House

House

both

both

[JBMasterAngler]

Nice pics. I’ve had some house finches this winter then! I just assumed they were redpolls with more color than the others.

[eyeguy 54]

house almost twice as big as redpolls also.  

here is a good page with info. 

 

 

https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/solve/faqs/how-to-identify-small-red-finches.php

[fishingstar]

I was thinking the same thing

with the warmer weather I think the redpolls have went north

all I have seen the last day or two are gold finches 

[smurfy]

those are sweet pictures eyeguy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eyeguy 54]

thx glenn!

[eyeguy 54]

slow today but starting to see a few birdies. 

[eyeguy 54]

posing for me again. trying to open the window for pics. sneaky

[eyeguy 54]

[JBMasterAngler]

My feeders have been super active today. Unfortunately I had a trio of starlings show up  that’s the first time I’ve seen them in this neighborhood since I moved here 2 years ago. I’ve been joking about shooting the squirrels with a pellet gun, but if starlings and pigeons start showing up, I really will have to break it out!

[eyeguy 54]

CHOOT EM ! ! LOL

 

cmon, guys, share some pics  please!