As May comes to a close and June arrives, we are experiencing the end to the spring bird migration. As I type, since March 1 approximately 53,745,000 individual birds have flown over Dawson County. From March 1 to April 1, about 3,000,000 crossed over us and then by May 1 the totals jumped to 14 million! However, May is the migration peak and 40 million flew over in just two weeks!
Usually by mid-May the number of birds levels off and we can expect maybe three to four million more migrants to cross our County before the end of the season.
This year things started to level off on May 13 with the peak single day total of 661,000 birds flying over the night of May 9.
One of the species that started to arrive during the past few weeks are the Baltimore orioles. I started to hear them calling and …