To Judy

These pictures are for you Judy

 The bridge finally rid itself of snow

 But THEN... You turn and look at the trail.  YIKES

 However, even if the trail is a mess, a big mess, the Mallards are back

 There is the trail pavement.  AFter I stepped through the ice. Still several inches of ice

 Flickers.  Lots of them

 And the Woodchucks are out!!!!! He/she told me to say hi to you :)

 The ice at Turtle Junction is melting

 As the snow melts the leaves from the fall show themselves.

 I just love taking pictures of pussy willows.  The silvery buds are shining everywhere

 Geese are so beautiful.  I cannot get enough of them this year.

I'm seeing a lot of fox sparrows this year

Yes, the snowfalls have been beautiful this year.  But I'm glad we have moved on into spring.  (just thought I would throw in the Lake Ave bridge for ya)

The trail misses you.  And so do I.

There ARE signs of spring

If you look for it-- you can see signs of Spring

  The willow and the red twig dogwood shrub  deep in color

 Winter Bittersweet

 Willow branches turning the bright yellow/gold that spring brings

 A LOT of geese and swans on the river. It is all so wonderful

 Caught the Mink-- on the ice-- on the branch-- in the river

  At first I couldn't figure out if this was a Mink or Otter.  Decided it was a Mink.  

I know this now for today I saw an Otter on the river and it is much longer, bigger.  The otter was eating on something and an eagle flew over and tried snatching the food, the otter was to quick

The river was beautiful.  

 Golden Eye is back

 Gotcha.  My first chipmunk this season.  In my garage eating up the sunflower seed on the garage floor.  Also saw one in the woods on the trail.

The Trumpeter Swan is amazing and big!

Blue Heron is back

The Dark Eyed Junco. I was very excited to see it

The Snow Bug

I was super excited to see the Red Bellied Woodpecker

pussy willows budding

 THe squirrel and the deer eating sun flower seed that I put out for the chickadees and nuthatches

 My new favorite thing to take a picture of.  They are so beautiful

So go outside and look around.  Don't let this snow fool you.  There are signs of spring everywhere. A fb friend saw robins today.  THis is so exciting!!