With the recent heavy rains around here, the spring peepers are going nuts today with the warm weather we're enjoying. I don't know why -- maybe it's because their little froggy peeps are some of the first hopeful signs of Spring -- but hearing them sing in unison this early makes me unreasonably happy.
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And this morning for the first time in many months I heard the birds performing their dawn chorus, low key but unmistakable while they wait for reinforcements from the south. Even witnessed a small friendly congregation in a neighbor's bare tree, perhaps a sign of an early spring from this sadly weak and dry winter.