8 April 2024
Marvel! As a substitute of an trip at the remaining Sunday of the month, let’s pass birding subsequent weekend. Sign up for me on the Schenley Park Guests Heart for a chook & nature stroll on Sunday 14 April, 8:30a – 10:30a.
Yellow-bellied sapsuckers migrate thru Allegheny County in April so mid-month is the most efficient time to seek out one in Schenley. Charity Kheshgi and I noticed this one at Frick.
We’ll additionally see timber in bud, in bloom, and with tiny leaves. Ten years in the past the redbuds had now not opened but. Will they be blooming subsequent Sunday?
April showers gained’t forestall us. This match can be held rain or shine, however now not in downpours or thunder. Test the Occasions web page sooner than you are available in case of cancellation.
Get dressed for the elements and put on relaxed strolling sneakers. Don’t overlook your binoculars.
Hope to peer you there.
p.s. If the birding is just right I’ll give an way to proceed till 11:00am.
p.p.s. Don’t be expecting a large display of spring wildflowers like we used to peer a number of years in the past. Pittsburgh’s overabundant deer have eaten the entirety aside from the poisonous vegetation.
(credit are within the captions)