Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rcb33483 From: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kehaar) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Signs of spring (???) Message-ID: <1990Feb9.211436.1382@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 Feb 90 21:14:36 GMT References: <7550@tank.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kehaar) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 25 In article <7550@tank.uchicago.edu> bob@delphi.UUCP (Robert S. Lewis, Jr.) writes: >The cardinals here in Chicago are singing too, though not quite the >continuous full songs you will hear in a month or so. Also I haven't >noticed too many of the variations occurring yet. Only the loud >wheeet, wheeet, wheeet song, not the what-cheer, what-cheer, >what-cheer song. > >Chicakadees have been doing the fee-bee song for a few weeks now. > Down here, in Champaign-Urbana, the Cardinals are doing both song-types, and are also "hanging out" more with one another. Further, down here, the Mourning Doves have been duetting with the Cardinals for weeks now. One of the most convincing messages, though, is that the large Robin Roosts are beginning to diffuse out--I saw the first campus Robin about a week ago, and have seen two more since--and heard one in full song. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R. Cody Buchmann ^.^ "Kehaar" email: rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu "Now I fly for you..." - Watership Down ------------------------------------------------------------------------------