Eyes to the skies, still no SYs

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John Carter
Posts: 132
Joined: Mon Jan 19, 2004 1:15 am
Location: Burlington/Iowa

Lost one male ASY during the early cold spell. More nests than there are birds. Egg laying has started, still waiting for SYs. Note one report in Mt. Pleasant but haven't heard of any others in Southeast Iowa.
john in SE IA
carlymac
Posts: 109
Joined: Mon May 03, 2004 2:47 pm
Location: Tennessee/ 20 mi. north of Nashville

John,
I'm not sure when you should be expecting your SY birds to return, but I just had my first SY male of the year return on 05-12-09 at my colony in northern middle Tennessee. So they are still moving north.
Carl McCoy
"Birds are wild because they have to be,
Man is wild because he chooses to be"
----Mark Twain
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