Looked out the back door this morning and was surprised to see Hooded Mergansers on the neighbors pond. They come in every year but this is the earliest I have ever seen them. Maybe this means that Pintail I saw a couple of years ago will be back this year.

Is anyone else seeing some earlier than normal?

Phil

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material-awesome, mallleable, older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless- for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.--Gus Orviston