Cool. Columbine going absolutely crazy this year. Wild Bergamot clusters starting to pop up. Glade mallow foliage coming up in clumps.

Currently in bloom:

• Columbine


• Jacob's Ladder


• Marsh Marigold


• Mohican Viburnum


• Wild Geranium
  

First Gray Tree Frog seen on the windowsil this evening. Spring Peepers and Chorus frogs calling outside.

First Oriole of the year spotted today. Toads trilling throughout the day.

Prairie Smoke

Trees just starting to bud. Red-winged blackbirds draining feeders on a weekly basis.

Maples are flowering.

Went down to check out Martin Lake. It's larger than Typo, and about the same distance from us (a few miles.)

Noticed piping call Spring Peepers interspersed with the Chorus Frogs. The decibles these tiny guys pump out are amazing. For something the size of a paperclip, their call can be heard for a quarter mile or more. If they were the size of humans, the shockwave produced by their calls could break glass.

Seeing lots of red-winged blackbirds at the feeder.

In twenty minutes counted (by either sight or sound) a bald eagle, a white-tailed deer, several robins, a flock of red-winged blackbirds, and a pair of wood ducks, and a growing number of chorus frogs. Wonder how long it is before I'll be hearing the Grey Frogs in my backyard pond.