The small marks of spring are welcome: early blooming daffodils along the Polpis Road, the magnolia in bud at the Screenwriters' Colony on Almanac Pond Road. For the most part, the green is the green of winter: the holly, the moss and the greenbrier.
The birds of winter are still here: the long tail ducks streaming north in the afternoon, an iceland gull, buffleheads and wigeon on Sesachacha Pond. I caught a glimpse of blue-winged teal on Caleb's Pond and of green-winged teal on Stump Pond.
The scoters and eiders and red-throated loons, the crows and the jays are here.
The ponds, which were so low at the end of fall, are refilling.
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| Long-tailed duck |
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| Long-tailed Duck |
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| Northern Gannet |
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Iceland Gull |