Hope they nest here. Four boys playing baseball on a muddy field. This used to be a common sign of spring but it seems we rarely see kids playing ball on their own these days, without a team and coach. Looks like they're having fun. We usually wait until mid-April to get the canoe out.
First tree swallows swooping over a pond.
Also saw a great blue heron standing on last year's nest, as if claiming it for the new season. First bullfrog, hunched quietly beside the peepers' pond. It's apparently not yet ready to join the evening chorus. Robins standing on the country roads and around puddles in the fields, looking miserable indeed. For a change, this one was seen flying over a salt pond, not in the Great Swamp, where we usually find our first ospreys.