Bluebird migration, as visible from my home on the west side of Superior,
was a little different than usual this year. Normally I'll see small
flocks of Mountain Bluebirds passing by intermittently over a period of
several weeks. This year, I only saw them for three days (around March
23-26) but
We have not seen many bluebirds this spring, so I compared this year with the
three prior years' data. This year we have seen only one or two of either
species only once in a while. The last 3 years we saw them almost daily
starting in mid-March.
This drop seems striking, at least along our