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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am your host, Nate Swick.

I don't know what it's like where you are, but spring has started to make its appearance known here where I live in the last few days.

I'm in the southeast, so I imagine I get it quite a bit sooner than many of you in the

north, and certainly my friends in the far north are looking at me quite a scantz.

They're certainly looking at a few more weeks of winter, but the birds know what is coming,

and birdsong has definitely increased dramatically in my neck of the woods

since the snow melted last week it's like they were waiting for it carolina wrens northern

cardinals white-throated sparrows which of course don't breed here but we'll sing quite avidly

here and especially pine warblers i'm my first pine warbler song of the

year this past weekend coming from, you know, where else, a grove of lob-lolly pine trees.

If there's a bird vocalization that is more evocative of early spring in my part of the world,

I guess I don't know it.

Once that bubbly trill starts echoing out of the pine stands, you know that most of the

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