Wood Thrush Notes: Blog Update, Campania Pre-order Sale Returns, Birds Being Seen
Blog Update
For those of you who have been missing it, our blog returns this week!
If you have been wondering about why we haven’t been posting weekly as we have in the past, there are a couple reasons. First and foremost, readership is significantly down. Out of nearly 1500 subscribers, we often have fewer than 200 people who click through and read our blog. For those of you who do, we sincerely appreciate it! Each blog usually requires 2-3 hours of time spent researching topics and typing the blog, not including the time spent taking and editing the photographs each and every week. That is why moving forward, we plan to start doing the blog every other week. The format will be similar to our weekly blog of old, but with a greater level of focus and detail on the bird topics, and with more photos! For those of you who primarily get our sale updates through the blog, we will continue to put those in, or they can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Campania Pre-order Sale Returns!
The Popular Bjorn Fountain
If you have spent the winter admiring our collection of concrete birdbaths, fountains, and statuary, but perhaps we didn’t have quite the right item for your home in stock, you’re in luck! Our annual spring Campania Pre-order Sale is here again!
Today through April 1st, you can browse through Campania’s entire collection and special order whatever product you want at 20% off. The sale isn’t limited to fountains; any item in their vast catalogue of statuary, birdbaths and fountains qualifies for the sale. While you can special order anything you would like, to qualify for the sale price, there is a $150 minimum order. (This is for your whole order, not per item.)
In the days after April 1st, we will submit our order to Campania, thus ensuring that it will be delivered before Mother’s Day.
We are able to deliver items to your home with a delivery fee depending on what the item is and what is involved in the delivery.
To browse through their entire collection, click the link here.
Birds Being Seen
Spring Migration is here! While it’s still too early to see many of our favorite spring visitors, such as Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (the first reports in our area will occur in the last days of March and early April) or Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, (mid April-mid May) the first visitors that herald the arrival of migration are beginning to be seen. Northern Rough-winged and Tree Swallows are both beginning to be seen with greater frequency. In addition to these, Louisiana Waterthrush have been seen and heard at both the Little Harpeth River area at Edwin Warner Park, and also around the creek in Beaman Park. Have you been seeing anything new or unusual around your feeders, or during your walks? Let us know!
Savannah Sparrow
Savannah Sparrows are a native North American sparrow species that can be found in field and meadow habitats during Spring Migration. These unassuming little birds journey as far north as the Arctic Circle to breed!
Photo Courtesy of Eli Haislip