Thank you very much to everyone who voted on my Spring Poll.
The results are in (below), and the Favorite Spring Bird is the Tree Swallow!
Tree Swallow: 18 votes
Horned Lark: 9 votes
Canada Goose: 3 votes
Other votes: 4 vote for the American Robin, 3 votes for the Mountain Bluebird, 3 votes for the Meadowlark, 3 votes for the Red-winged Blackbird, 2 votes for the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 1 vote for the Western Meadowlark, 1 vote for the Blackburnian Warbler, 1 vote for the Eurasian Wigeon, 1 vote for the Wood Duck, 1 vote for Long-billed Curlew, 1 vote for the Northern Flicker, 1 vote for the Swainson’s Hawk, 1 vote for the Mississippi Kite, 1 vote for the House Finch, 1 vote for the Merlin, 1 vote for the Red Knot, 1 vote for the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 1 vote for the Hummingbird, 1 vote for the Goldfinch, and 1 vote for the gull. There were even two votes for extinct species: the Great Auk and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
I hope you have a chance this winter to see your favorite spring bird at least once!
Thanks very much to all who voted and played along with my spring game!
Excellent choice!
:)
Diverse range of birds chosen, my House Finch only gathered one vote, sniffle!! Another one showed up in the back alley last evening and I thought I heard a gull.
Bob Edmonton.
Yes, I was quite surprised by the variety of species chosen!