Hey, Greg:

For many years, I taught a class on birds at the Museum and Nature Center when I worked. The most remarkable sights that I've ever seen came in the early spring when the warblers come back. They come in a seemingly endless variety of colors and pattersn, and they sparkle like jewels in the morning sun. And if you want to see them, that's when you have to go out into the woods. There's a window of a couple of weeks in the early spring before the leaves are fully out, when the warblers are migrating. During the summer, they feed high in the canopy and you can walk all day on the forest floor, not realizing what beauty lies above you. But, for those couple of weeks in the early spring, if you go out around sunrise, you'll be rewarded with a beautiful array of the prettiest birds, feeding in the low shrubs on the forest floor. It's well worth it.

Jerry