For those of you who may be curious about the spring migration, it looks like it’s on. It seems that many people are reporting seeing the FOS (first of the season) for many species significantly earlier than usual.
Here’s today’s list from the Cornell ebird alert:
>Greater White-fronted Goose (2 DeKalb)
> Greater White-fronted Goose (Western) (1 DeKalb)
> Snow Goose (1 Rabun)
> Ross’s Goose (1 Cherokee, 1 Morgan, 2 Muscogee)
> American Black Duck (1 Clayton, 2 Muscogee)
> Northern Pintail (1 Cobb, 2 Fulton)
> Redhead (1 Rabun)
> Eared Grebe (3 Forsyth)
> American White Pelican (1 Fayette)
> Black-crowned Night-Heron (2 Richmond)
> King Rail (1 Richmond)
> Virginia Rail (1 Clayton)
> Sora (1 Clayton)
> Stilt Sandpiper (1 Chatham)
> Pectoral Sandpiper (1 Chatham, 2 Walton)
> Long-billed Dowitcher (1 Chatham)
> Spotted Sandpiper (1 Fulton)
> Rufous Hummingbird (2 Columbia)
> Red-cockaded Woodpecker (1 Jones)
> Merlin (1 Fulton, 1 Richmond)
> Peregrine Falcon (1 Fulton)
> Vermilion Flycatcher (1 Baker, 3 Mitchell)
> Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2 Bartow)
> Barn Swallow (1 Chatham)
> Sedge Wren (1 DeKalb, 1 Gwinnett)
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1 DeKalb)
> Ovenbird (1 Gwinnett)
> Louisiana Waterthrush (1 Jenkins)
> Black-and-white Warbler (1 Fayette)
> Palm Warbler (Yellow) (1 Rockdale)
> Yellow-throated Warbler (1 Jones)
> Bachman’s Sparrow (1 Jones)
> Eastern Towhee (White-eyed) (1 Oglethorpe)
> Indigo Bunting (1 Baldwin)
> Dickcissel (1 Bibb)
> Rusty Blackbird (1 McIntosh)
> Brewer’s Blackbird (1 Bartow)