10am: I was sitting outside the hotel in my bus and is was already 30 degrees. It is very, freakishly warm for February in Minnesota. The cardinals, house sparrows and house finches are all calling, their male mating calls, to attract partners and to set up nesting territories--as typically occurs in the Ides of March.
These birds are silent all winter, and the house finches seem to go farther south. They seem confused as if the mild weather, a month early, triggered their mating hormones out of season.
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