• March 1 – 31: Project FeederWatch continues • March 2: Average arrival date of Rufous Hummingbirds and Violet-green Swallows March 1: Full Moon; March 7: New Moon March 11: Daylight Savings Time begins – "spring forward" one hour • March 20: Vernal Equinox - The first day of Spring – almost equal amounts of day and night • Trumpeter Swans and Snow Geese depart • Turkey Vultures arrive • House Sparrows begin nesting • Mason Bees emerge and begin their life cycle • Nesting Bald Eagles sit on their eggs early in the month • Orange-crowned Warblers and Virginia Rails arrive • Crows begin to build their nests • Gray Whales return to Puget Sound waters • Ospreys return from their winter home on the Pacific coast of Mexico • Great Blue Herons nest in communal heronries
