Day 8
March 14, 2009
It feels like spring today. The sun is out. The water is receding rapidly but ice remains – forming ballerina skirts around the trunks of trees. As the sun warms them up, they let loose making strange noises… like glass breaking, but not real glass… more like stage glass – break-away glass…
A mixed flock of blackbirds – Red-winged, Grackles, Cowbirds – seem to be competing for the Loudest Song award. Geese are arguing over prime nesting sites… honking, hissing, flapping, chasing.
A hungry muskrat is not afraid of me and comes for mustard greens on the bank of the pond.
Audubon
