In Atlanta area. Two days earlier than last year.

I've now officially lived through another winter!

Had my feeder out for a week now, waiting and watching.

I put our feeders out on Thursday last week and we had a few visitors that day - north DFW area.

Hummingbirds here year 'round, and we don't even have to put out feeders.

South WI here, up & down weather still. I have had some bluebirds checking out nesting options with bird houses.

For me a sure bird sign of spring is when the bug eating tree swallows make it here, usually early April. They have a distinctive tweet, I often hear them before seeing them.

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For me a sure bird sign of spring is when the bug eating tree swallows make it here, usually early April.

When I lived in Minnesota folks maintained huge cylindrical bird houses for tree swallows. Pole mounted with hundreds of compartments.

It was delightful to see them flying, and they gobbled millions of bugs/day. Each mated pair knew its compartment.

Growing up in Nebraska, my Uncle John had a martin box, like pipe smoker mentioned with respect to tree swallows, purple martins also nest in communal boxes. Like tree swallows, or any swallow for that matter, they are flying insect eaters. Our sign of spring is the return of meadowlarks, and they’ve been back about 2 weeks already.

Rather than tree swallows, we have cliff swallows that build their nests under the bridge going over Crow Creek. Haven’t seen them yet, nor the redwing blackbirds that nest in the vicinity of Crow Creek.

Southside of ATL and we usually have them show up between the 23 and 24th like clockwork. This year no sighting yet. Problems with ICE maybe

Hummingbird spotted on a feeder north of Dallas Texas 3-28-26.

I like bats also, later yet with arrival. Years ago I made & put up a ‘bat house’, no idea if it was ever used.

They seem to find tight spots to live, without a special house. I like watching them at dusk. I think I had one down the chimney years ago.

4 inches of snow here today, spring is a ways away.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
I like bats also, later yet with arrival. Years ago I made & put up a ‘bat house’, no idea if it was ever used.

They seem to find tight spots to live, without a special house. I like watching them at dusk. I think I had one down the chimney years ago.

They never use the bat houses. They prefer real houses. I evicted a small colony a few years back and they relocated to my neighbors house. Now I get the benefit of mosquito control without the guano !

No pictures?

He must have heard us talking, a little male showed up today.

Some hummingbirds have shown up, along with hooded orioles and a few turkeys. We put the oriole and hummer feeders out two weeks ago after a quick sighting.

One of my Chipmunks thawed out today. Then it started to snow and he disappeared. False start!