Observaciones de muir

Damp moose

With telemetry collar?

First is season muskrat

Their calls and croaks have brightened my heart for a week or two already, but this is the first time this year I've managed to see a crane. A true life pleasure to have them in my neighborhood.

I declare the lagoon ice-free. Last evening there was still a large rotten wet sheet on the last western portion, this morning it was gone.

First time to see pigeons in the yard maybe?

Ice free part of lagoon has finally reached the western nesting island.

First of season red necked grebe for me

Second individual embedded within vegetation

Terns are back. Lagoon 1/3 ice free?

A few first of season insects today: this beetle, a butterfly and a bumblebee. No obs of the bee or butterfly (mourning cloak, I suspect).

Yard gadwall

I propose today as the day that the snowshoe hares in my backyard have officially transitioned from winter to summer colors.

Looking scruffy

Spring ducks in mud

Nesting island with small open water around some limited sections of island and lagoon edge.