All day today -- Flurries!  Listen carefully and you can just hear the male Red-Wing Blackbirds calling by the pond just beyond the tree-line -- got to hold onto territory for the mating season.

1145pm -- Just heard the coyote pack yipping and howling South on the golf-course -- not surprising since we've seen many extra deer this past week.

9am -- Red Tailed Hawk (lower left corner) perched at the edge of the golf course looking for breakfast .....and a wee grey squirrel (upper right corner) hiding on the opposite side of a Norway Maple trunk trying to stay off the menu.  

A fine pair of Spring-heralds -- 
      Two days ago at 630 am a woodcock (aka timber-doodle) was "Peenting" near the golf course pond at the edge of the woods by the fairway, and yesterday at 7 am a red-wing blackbird was calling from that same pond.  
      So now today, on the Vernal Equinox, the First Day of Spring.....snow.  

      Quite fitting since this past Thanksgiving was laden with snow, but this past Christmas was warmer than usual and snow-free.