By Jon Fisher

Following is a link to the PDF pages of Birds of the Season–April 2021 (from the Western Tanager Vol. 87 No. 5)

With the onset of spring, rainfall remained sparse, though this was hardly unexpected. With precipitation at about twenty-five percent of normal, we are now past any chance to make up the deficit. Much of the western United States is in the same situation, or worse. Thankfully, plants and animals are fairly well-adapted to deal with these conditions- at least in the short term. Humans, with their voracious appetite for water, are less so.

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