Winter Birds of Mississippi (December, January, February) December: As the bird-watching year comes near to full-circle, bird watching gets a fresh breath with birds in the backyard, and the settling in of what will be winter’s bread-and-butter species. If you, who were once a novice, have followed birds throughout the entire year, you will have …
Fall Birds of Mississippi (September, October, November) September: That which is true of August is also true of September. In some cases, as with the passage of songbird migrants, it demands a return to the bird-watching habitats of spring and putting in more time at it. Many of the more southern breeding species, such as …
Summer Birds of Mississippi (June, July, August) June: Surprisingly, shorebird migration isn’t yet over; and efforts to see these shorebirds should continue as well. Surely you have noticed that spring migration is prolonged; while the height of it takes place during March, April, and May, it actually began way back in late January, winds down …
Spring Birds of Mississippi (March, April, May) March: While we should not exclude permanent and those remaining winter residents from our areas of attention, March is most exciting for an almost non-stop assemblage of migrants from the tropics. They run the gamut, from cattle egret, green heron, yellow-crowned night-heron to Mississippi kite and broad-winged hawk, …
