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It is uncommon to hear a winter day, one with a cloudless, blue sky, particularly after a snowfall, being described as a bluebird day.  But that is the best and most precise description of a bluebird day.

Bluebird days really do not have much to do with spring (or Bluebirds for that matter).

Here in Wisconsin, however, those December days may actually be days when real Eastern Bluebirds, those who have decided to tough it out and stay until their flock-mates return from being anti-snowbirds in the south.

Look for this thrush family member perched on power lines, possibly near nest box loca...