April 25, 2007

Rainy and chiily. Only 48 degrees. Still it looks like spring. The amount of new green is very noticable in just one day. The trees are turning green at their tips as the buds and leaves begin to pop. The daffodils are close to the end of bloom. Few of their flowers are in good shape. Many are wilted and drooping in the cold and wet.

The birds are really going at the feeders. The maple outside my window has more than 10 bright yellow Goldfinches flecked in the branch. They move on and the Chickadees come in. Moving fast. Not staging. Waiting a way out then diving in from on high. Opening their wings at intevals to adjust their trajectory and put on the brakes. They grab a seed and are gone.