Random list of observations: Overcast. Warmish (47 degrees.) Water levels low on the lake when I wander over looking for ducks. Belted kingfisher in a tree surveying the water surface. Ducks milling. Cormorants drying off their wings after diving in the water. A red-flowering currant sends out a preliminary flower stalk as a feeler; a couple months early. Along the canal, a flock of golden-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia atricapilla, hopping around through the dry grass and feeding on whatever it was they found. A house finch hovering in the blackberry bushes nearby. Lots of robins, very little vocalization, intent on feeding, jump-jump-cocking of head to listen. Flocking starlings passing overhead and red-wings in the bushes, both quite vocal. Juncos chasing each other from branch to branch. Someone planting trees on the plain, someone removing trees further up the hill. Life moves on.
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