Gray again, bird update

We were supposed to get rain or snow overnight.  Hasn't happened yet, but the sky gives me the impression that that has been filed under "Pending Business" . . .

Some blotch-finches at the feeder this morning, molting goldfinches.  No sign of the redpolls yesterday or yet this morning.  I suspect that if we do see those again, they will represent a different flock passing through.

Brown-headed cowbirds mixed in with the grackles and starlings.  Evil!

Saw a pair of ducks up at the cemetery pond the other day, automatically assumed mallards.  Then one went "gloop" and vanished.  Then the other.  Hooded mergansers, gone fishing.

Wife reports ice-out on the nature center lake, also wood frogs quacking.

Sign of the times

Made a quick run-out to the Rad Shack for a new bike computer battery, it being nearly road-bike time, and saw a car in an unused parking lot with buckets of pussy-willow cuttings for sale.  Spring flowers, Maine style.

Also a sign of the economic times, that someone thought the couple of bucks they could make on free materials was worth the effort . . .