Except for a couple of weeks in March the winter hasn't been hard on the deer herd. They really didn't yard up till February and now are returning to their home areas. The area biologist had proposed 400 any deer permits for the area this year. But a late March heavy snow held the deer yarded up which resulted in the change. Just as spring really arrives it's time to pick fiddleheads.
Fiddleheads are a native fern that is picked just as they emerge from the ground.
And a spring meal of fiddleheads and fresh fish is a long-standing tradition. Hopefully I will be able to get some frozen this season for others to try later in the year. From early May things start changing fast. The bird feeder is emptied daily by a wide variety of birds. Last year on Memorial Day weekend we had indigo buntings, finches, grosbeaks, nuthatches and chickadees all on it at the same time.