We have oodles of signs of spring in Haines. The daylight returns, the temperatures warm and, boom, the birds arrive, the bears come out, and the plants emerge and bloom.
Mark Battaion saw a robin March 23. Since 1999, the earliest the first robins have arrived is March 1 and the latest is April 30. Sometimes a few stay all winter, but flocks of them arrive and sing during the big spring migration. Last year they arrived…