Birds in spring

I’m not what you would call a “birder”; that is, a person with a deep fascination with birds, who invests a lot in seeds and binoculars, but I do notice birds, especially in the spring. And what I’m seeing recently are creatures that migrate; something like half of all bird species migrate.

This week I spotted in our yard a robin, that wonderful harbinger of spring; I think it was the first robin...