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The Early Bird Gets the Snow

Mar 01, 2025 09:00AM ● By Bernadette Chiaramonte

My backyard on Heise Run Road in Wellsboro is always alive with birds, but none is a more welcome sign of the start of spring than the robin. Many stay here year-round, but in winter they move in flocks and aren’t as noticeable. We start to see them again when they turn territorial and solitary in spring, getting ready to court and raise chicks. An unexpected snow storm occurred just as this one was ready to start yanking worms. I photograph a lot of birds in my backyard, and I’ve never seen this expression on any before. I’d be mad, too.

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