The last couple days have featured our continued roller coaster of weather with a little rain yesterday and mainly sunny conditions today with temps that topped out around 70. The weather over the next few days look to continue this up and down trend with everything from windy and warm to windy and cold, rain and maybe even a little more snow. Winds should be gusty out of the south tomorrow and then a cold front will come through and turn the winds again late in the day and temps on Thursday may barely make it into the 40's with cold northerly winds. By the end of the week into the weekend it should warm up again into the upper 60's. Overall migration is a bit slow so far with not a whole lot of early arriving migrants so far. The Snowy Egret that showed up after our last snow storm continued through at least yesterday. After work today I hit a few spots but didn't have anything unexpected and in fact the numbers of early migrants (including Palm and Yellow rumped Warblers) seem lower than the last few years around this date. Today was a good day for raptor migration early with several species heading northeast fairly high on strong southwest to west winds. Around the yard I was able to check the cameras and got some great shots of a Black Bear (among other stuff) and I also confirmed that both active duck nest boxes contain Hooded Mergansers once again.
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