It's been on my mind each day lately that this is the first March when I have yet to see a single blackbird. I live way north between Virginia and Cook, but even so had felt that someone in counties to the south would have posted their first of season sighting of our common blackbirds. They have by this time normally come a few at a time to our feeders. Reports are that they're dying off due to neonicotinoid and other pesticides. By now--how drastic is this die-off? How late due to weather are many other spring arrivals?
