![Tight shot of a bright red male cardinal in bare branches.](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/39595/img_4374_will__medium.jpg)
Bird reports from friends signal arrival of spring
Cardinals singing, turkey vultures soaring over head, red-winged blackbirds on territory, Cooper's hawks building nests--it must be spring in central Illinois.
Cardinals singing, turkey vultures soaring over head, red-winged blackbirds on territory, Cooper's hawks building nests--it must be spring in central Illinois.