Temps reached into the 40's again today. The Northwoods can experience freezing temps into May but that doesn't keep the fauna of the area from celebrating spring early. All winter as soon as bird feeders were filled, it was an avian sharknado. Birds flew in from everywhere, absolutely covering the feeders, and didn't leave until every seed had been consumed. As I drank my coffee this morning I saw that the birds did come in to the feeders but they ate, took off, and there was still some food left. Most of the snow has melted and it was warm enough for a short rainstorm. I watched a turkey vulture circling the fields looking for rodents (whose safe tunnels under the snow were now left w/o any cover at all) or possibly winter kill. Just as the sun set a group of nine deer walked out of the woods. Last year's fawns played - jumping around, kicking up their heels - as the more mature members of the group headed toward my neighbor's stand of corn. On the nightly constitutional I stopped walking when I heard a coyote howl. Think it was in the field below me. I could hear the sound echo back and forth between the trees to the east and west. Then another coyote joined and another until it sounded like the coyotes had an impromptu rave going on. The sound was ricocheting everywhere - both eerie and beautiful in the dark w/ only the stars overhead. Whip wasn't as enamored. She ran ahead, opened the door to the house, and waited for me in the foyer.
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