That’s more or less accurate Lloyd. If the first clutch fails to hatch, the second clutch is smaller.
If the first clutch hatches, but the chicks fail, then there is no second clutch, and young of the year birds in the fall will be sparse.
it was an easy winter here, no cold weather, limited ice, so, without having made a scouting trip, I would expect gross numbers to be good throughout northern lower Michigan this season.
Actually, throughout the region.
We literally had our first heavy rain in a month or more yesterday. It will be bugzilla up north until mid July.
This will be the kind of summer, where if you roll down the window of your car, and then slam the door,
You can literally hear the swarms of mosquitoes mustering, which sounds like a chainsaw starting off in the distance.
At which time you close the window, or risk being exsanguinated.
