Birds

• northern cardinal
• killdeer
• hairy or downy woodpecker
• American robin
• northern flicker
• European starling
• blue jay
• American crow
• Canada goose
• dark-eyed junco
• tufted titmouse
• house sparrow
• mourning dove
• black-capped chickadee
• wild turkey
• red-winged blackbird
• belted kingfisher
• eastern meadowlark
• eastern phoebe
• song sparrow
• northern mockingbird
• American woodcock
• black vulture
• turkey vulture
• house finch (male/female pair)
• white-breasted nuthatch
• eastern bluebird (male/female pair)
• possible northern waterthrush
• common grackle
• pine siskin
• American goldfinch
• brown-headed cowbird
• wood duck
• mallard
• eastern towhee

Wildlife

• white-tailed deer
• striped skunk
• fox squirrel
• Virginia opossum

Notes

• 1st: First robin of Spring!
• 8th: Purple crocuses in bloom
• 10th: White crocuses in bloom
• 14th: Heard the Spring Peepers for the 1st time this year!
• 14th: Pussy willow catkins fully open
• 14th: Saw lightning on the way home from prayer meeting
• 14th: Coltsfoot blooming along local roadsides
• 16th: Daffodils blooming
• 18th: Heard my first woodcock -- "peent!" -- near the local elementary school
• 21st: Annual West Virginia Statewide Tornado Drill
• 24th: Pussy willow "flowering" (yellow)
• 24th: Vinca blooming
• 24th: Pennsylvania bittercress abundantly blooming