Finally - a definite sign of Spring at the Nature Center

I've been waiting to post until we spotted a sign of Spring at the nature center. We started watching March 1 and today finally - almost at the end of the month - a returning migrator. One of the Naturalist Fellows was out with a group of students and they saw a Great Blue Heron flying overhead. Wahoo!

Now I was banking on red-winged blackbirds arriving in the past week - they're usually the first to arrive in mid-March. But I'm not disappointed. I'm just glad to see things are changing. Temperatures in the 50s and returning birds - she's taking her time, but Spring has finally arrived.