Birds sing in the spring

Although there are some patches of unmelted snow still about, yesterday and today I heard birds singing for the first time this year. We have birds year-round, of course, and we hear woodpeckers pecking and not long ago I heard the owl who lives down by the ridge. But now I have heard actual sweet song, and that is a good sign. Sounded like robins staking out their territory.

It is going to be cool this week, but it does look like we will have quite a bit of rain to finish off those snow patches. I admit that we may have a flurry or two more in our near future, but yesterday Tom dug down into the ground to put up a post and the ground has thawed. So we are on our way!