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Connections: Backyard Bird Songs in March

Maine Audubon’s mission is to conserve Maine’s wildlife and wildlife habitat by engaging people in education, conservation, and action. Today, that mission seems more important than ever. Our educators, scientists, advocates, and naturalists are committed to keeping you connected to the natural world as we deal with the coronavirus situation together. Check in every weekday on our Connections page for family activities, parent/teacher tips, backyard birding, nature exploration at our sanctuaries, and live events.

Nature provides wonderful clues about the changing seasons. Sure, the days are getting longer but the start of daylight saving time probably threw off everyone’s circadian rhythm. Trees are budding, sap is running, and my favorite of all: birds are singing! This is especially welcome after the fall/winter we experienced with so few birds visiting feeders, instead they were foraging on naturally occurring foods (spruce, birch, ash, winterberry, mountain-ash, all seemed to be loaded with seeds or fruit).

To help you learn some of these bird songs that you are hearing in your backyard, I made this short video after recording the most common (or loudest) birds singing in my backyard:

Video notes:
To create the spectrograms for visualizing bird songs, I used Adobe Audition. Audacity is another popular program that generates spectrograms, available for free. SpectrumView is a free app (iOS and Android) that also allows you to view spectrograms on mobile devices.