It seems each day I discover another spring arrival. Yesterday a male Ruby-throated Hummingbird arrived at the feeder. I had put it out a week earlier in anticipation. The Black-throated Green Warbler pictured, has also arrived with several other warblers. This morning I was fortunate to see a Barred Owl at fairly close range, about 20'. The bird soured low over my head an alit on a branch to stare watchfully down at me. Then I saw a Red-headed Wood-pecker which are usually seen alittle further south in Massachusetts. I was wishing I had a camera that worked at that point. Something has gone awry with the one I have, so I can't download photos from it.
Evvy and I have spent countless hours walking in the woods keeping our eyes peeled for anything neat, from cellar holes, to bones, to pieces of cars, and even a snowmobile key!
I rode my mountain bike up to the quarry I know in Surry. It's 7.25 miles round trip. I like to go check up there to see what has been tossed in over the winter. I am happy to report, no plastic snowmen. But there was a round float, like the kind you would use to slide on snow.
I wondered if someone had gone swimming? or floating in that cesspool. I noticed several very large Bull frogs holding on to the flotsam. I swear the frogs are as big as rats!
The tadpoles have popped out of their gelatinous blobs. I look forward to their future development, back legs, then front legs, tail reductions and finally becoming amphibious.
I'm so happy that Spring is springing in such grand form.
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