April 30-May 6
I was out of town at the Indiana Audubon Spring Festival for three days this week, so my yard discoveries are pretty lame - just of couple of new birds, but pretty good birds at that.
Returning for the summer are Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. These birds overwinter in Central America, and they breed in the Northern US and Canada including most of Indiana. On this particular morning, I was lucky enough to have four males stopover at our feeders. I've never found evidence of these birds breeding on the property, but I have founds recently fledged young in nearby Rolling Prairie.
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| Male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus) |
Another returning migrant is the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). Unlike the above bird, White-crowned Sparrows do not breed in the Midwest. Instead they continue north to northern Canada. Here in Indiana, we'll see them for a couple of weeks in a spring. In the fall, they return to their wintering ground, which includes most of the United States, and we do occasionally see them foraging on the roadsides in the winter months.
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| White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) |
Week 17 running totals:
Birds: 25
Mammals: 4
Reptiles: 1
Insects: 8
Vascular Plants: 14
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