Maybe it was the mass blooming of Early Blueberry on the island or seeing Skunk cabbage flowers but this weekend things started to feel a bit more spring-like. It was kind of overwhelming listening to all of the bird song on the way home from the airport at 5:30am. Winter wrens, song sparrows, varied thrush and robins were carrying on. This last week I lay in bed in the morning and listen to a song sparrow singing in the garden.
It was also pretty nice soaking up the sun in front of Steve and MB's garage door while the kids found the eggs we hid around the yard. We are going to have to borrow kids pretty soon. It was dry and sunny enough that we drew chalk pictures in the driveway and I had to wear 
sunglasses in order to keep my eyes open in the blazing sun.
sunglasses in order to keep my eyes open in the blazing sun. Had a nice walk around the island after dinner this evening, there was still several patches of snow on the west side of the lake. The lake ice is continuous to within about 2ft of the shore. The visible water is a very murky looking blue-green color. Found 4 Fox sparrows in addition to the birds I already mentioned.
| April 6 | April 7 | April 8 | April 9 | April 10 | April 12 | |
| Pelagic Cormorant | 30 | 7 | 5 | |||
| Mallards | 2 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Harelquin | 2 | |||||
| Surf Scoter | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | ||
| White-winged Scoter | 12 | 7 | ||||
| Barrow's Goldeneye | 4 | |||||
| Bufflehead | 1 | |||||
| Common merganser | 15 | 9 | 5 | 2 | ||
| Mew Gull | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Herring Gull | 1 | |||||
| Glaucous-winged Gull | 1 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 |
| Gull spp | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Bald Eagle | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Crow | 7 | |||||
| Weather | calm | se choplet | calm | calm | calm | calm |
| Time | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
There was Herring spawn in Crescent bay on Friday the 10th.
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