Johnw: 75 degrees here today (by FAR the warmest day of this year so far) and the birds are VERY active around my bird feeder, yard and nearby fields.
So far today:
Robins
Chickadees
Wrens
Gold Finch
Swallow
Meadowlarks
Magpies
Mourning Doves
Eurasian Doves
Black Birds
Red-Wing Blackbirds
Vultures
Ravens
Western Tanagers (they just arrived back here last week)
Bald Eagle
Goshawks
And the Bird Watching highlight (or lowlight?) of the day was a Golden Eagle that kept repeatedly swooping down on a Doe Antelope who has been in her "birthing posture" all morning.
I hope that the soon to be mother Antelope can avoid losing her fawn(s) to this giant bird.
The Antelope is 550 yards distant and with my good binoculars I can not see a fawn anywhere in the shortgrass and sage field the mother (?) is lying down now.
Hoping for the best here.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
