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["Marty" <parula6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "David Stone" <rockyturf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:58 AM
Subject: [TN-Bird] It's Cold But The Birds Seem To Know Spring Is Not Far 
Away


>    I could not help but notice that even though we have had the coldest 
> temperatures of the winter lately, many birds are already thinking of 
> spring.


Yes, they're starting to tune up in my neck of the woods, too, proving that 
daylength is more critical than temperature, I guess. The Cardinals 
typically start singing in late January, and this year was no different. The 
Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice have been singing since around Jan 
10, and today I heard the first singing Eastern Towhee of the season. 
There's a Red-bellied Woodpecker churring and making obvious territorial 
vocalizations on a big dead post oak at the nursery where I work.

I'm grateful for any sign of spring when the windchill is as biting as it 
was today!

Marty DeHart
Bon Aqua, Hickman Co, TN 

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