| Date |
Observation (Click on links for photos) |
| Mar 6 |
Silver Maple (Acer
saccharinum) has begun to flower, City of Green Bay. For the last 15
years I have monitored the same tree and the earliest it ever flowered before
was March 14 (1990). The average date is about March 25! |
| Mar 7 |
Unbelievable warm weather continues with high temps of 70+ predicted.
Speckled Alder (Alnus rugosa)
is in flower, City of Green Bay - previous early date was March 15. Many
new insects first sighted today, including Mourning Cloak, Milbert's
Tortoiseshell and Comma butterflies and "water striders" on UW-Green Bay.
Today is the first report for Killdeer on UW-Green Bay. Today is also the
first day a Garter Snake was seen on UW-Green Bay (Joan Berkopec). |
| Mar 7 |
Green Bay shoreline - daily
series of photos on UW-Green Bay from February 21 through March 7 (about
175K). |
| Mar 9 |
Snow returns to remind us that
the recent warm weather is the exception for this time of year. |
| Mar16 |
March temperatures,
compared to the averages. After the warm beginning in which several new record
high temperatures were recorded, the recent cooling trend has been a shock.
However only one day actually had a high temperature below average--it's
all relative. |
| Mar18 |
NOAA
announced
that this winter was the warmest on record (105 years of records). |
| Mar 23 |
Milder weather has returned and we will see rapid changes if it continues.
Andy Paulios reports large numbers of calling Wood Frogs
(and spring peepers) in Oconto County near Lakewood on the 22nd (also
in Brown County 0323, Joan Berkopec). We have had reports of a few
calling frogs a couple of weeks ago, but Andy has been in Oconto County
regularly, working on his study of owls, and this is the first night he heard
large numbers of frogs calling. Bob Howe reports Tree Swallows
and Phoebes in the Shiocton area on his ornithology field trip
on the 23. A Snowy Owl was reported on ice in lower Green
Bay on the 23rd and a Greater Yellowlegs was seen on the shoreline of lower
Green Bay. |
| Mar 24 |
A new brood of Mallards reported for Marquette Co.!!! "Town Ducks",
but still remarkably early (from "Wisbird" on internet) |
| Mar 25 |
Turkey Vultures, Nicolet National Forest (Andy Paulios).
American Elm, UWGB |
| Mar 26 |
White Pelicans return to Green Bay (Tom Erdman). First
fully open Dandelion flowers. This is on an extreme site,
UWGB lawn, south facing slope against a wall, where it gets a heat subsidy.
Dandelions on unsubsidized sites will not flower for a long time--UWGB
average is 04/20 and the earliest previous was 04/08. The peak of Dandelion
bloom is usually in May. |
| Mar 27 |
Double-crested Cormorants return to Green Bay (Tom Erdman);
Red-breasted Mergansers at the mouth of the Fox River (Tom Erdman). |
| Mar 28 |
Ruffed Grouse drumming near Pensaukee, Oconto County, Tom
Erdman. One Forsythia shrub in conspicuous
flower against a wood fence along Libal St. near the Allouez/Green Bay
border--very early. |
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