3/13/09 – Ed’s poem below spurred Jim Clayton, from Iowa City, to send this interesting web link: http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html. We are enjoying what may well be the last day of true winter for this season before an extended warm spell sets in. There is not a cloud in the blue sky with 36″ of fluffy white snow on the ground. A crisp west wind bites the face and the chickadees are swarming the bird feeder. Hummingbirds would not like it here right now. But, they are on their way – no doubt! – Bill