The changeable exhilarating first days of Spring

As the snow leaves

The creek reappears

some Frosty mornings

 Mid day wanders

 Early evening skies

 Platoons of robins

 and solitary hunters

 Sudden storms of hail, snow and winds

 Red winged blackbirds tumbling about in stunning synchronicity

 

 

A very blue bird

 And our April flicker ~ right on schedule

 

 A glorious time of year.

Winter is becoming spring

 

Spring catkins are busting out all over...  

Here's a quick little video of a moment this past Saturday afternoon 

at the creek crossing where my daily walk about begins.

Serenaded by the red winged blackbirds.

 

 and some pics along the way.  Glorious sunny days.

'Our' coyote family

March 17th ~ our resident family of coyotes came out together on a weekend hunt.

They are fairly distant in these pics ~ down the other end of our hay fields ~ but they were quite obviously having some success.  They look very healthy which is great ~ it must have been a good winter for them.

 

   

 

Many mornings in the wee hours  ~ on the cold air ~ we hear them calling to each other. 

Late winter days

Sunshine and the promise of spring.

Some photos from my afternoon walkabouts. . .  We have almost 2 miles of beautiful walking trail around our property, framed all the way by our "amazing stacked log zigzag fence" :)  Such a wonderful thing. How fortunate we are.

 

And one of our most welcome harbingers of spring … we normally only see one meadowlark a year…  ~ so we are keeping our eyes out.  Soon we think!