I didn’t see it. But I heard it.
j
ETA - just realized that I doxxed my own hands!
The Gray whales don’t seem to splash around a lot like Orcas or Humpbacks. The come up, spout, and go back down. You can see the top of their head and their back. This one was breathing about once every minute, and swimming slowly, so we saw him or her come up around 8 times each time as it passed. And, it was only 20 yards out, so that was cool.
We’ve got babies (wrens, that is)!
Yay! Good luck to them.
Tee-tiny snake living in the cracks of my porch and eating bugs. Thank you, baby!
Juvenile eastern ribbon snake (see bottom right pic) 
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Oh, good to know.
We’ve got an eaglet! It happened yesterday after I stopped watching, sometime after 6 PM locally. It looks very healthy and all fluffed out.
You know, after the whole saga of snow and extreme cold, I’m slightly amazed that happened.
Over here - last night I finally got to see one of our fox fights (from a window). Yes, they really do get up on their back legs and wrestle with each other, shrieking all the time; and then, on all fours, facing each other and still shrieking. It went on for two or three minutes. As it took place at about 10 PM, there was nowhere near enough light to video it, or even take a photo. But I found a short vid on YouTube which shows pretty much everything that was going on (though in a different order) - brawl starts at about 0.22.
Plus we think we might have robins nesting in a tree out front - that would be cool.
j
Seen from the backyard today.
Brief respite in the weather yesterday (back to wind and rain today), so made it out to one of my favorite marshland areas conveniently sited in a wastewater treatment facility 
. Pretty active day - a lot of late season migrant ducks still around, gallinules meandering about on their silly feet, marsh wrens busy singing and building scores of dummy nests to fool each other, river otters cruising, even a trio of coyotes lounging lazily about in the open in broad daylight - but wayyyy out in the middle of a huge open field where they had long sight lines in every direction.
But no bitterns 
. My mission every time I go out there is to find bitterns and I’m only rarely successful.
It’s snakes every day now! There’s a little one living on my porch (hopefully the dogs don’t find him). A great big black snake crossed my path as I left work the other day. And now this one last night in the barn. I think this may be the answer to “why do thirteen chickens only produce about two eggs a day”. He kept yawning while I took his picture, probably trying to swallow his most recent theft. Anyway, we popped him into a five gallon bucket and took him for a short drive, releasing him in some woods where I hope he’ll be very happy.
We had a morbidly obese central rat snake in our barn that was eating several eggs a day for many months. We eventually caught him because his obesity slowed him down.
We relocated him and immediately had more eggs than we could eat.
I figured it had to be a snake or possibly rats. Then I realized my whole idea about rats stealing eggs came from the animated movie Charlotte’s Web. 
We also have plenty of hummingbirds in the yard right now, but no way I’ll get a picture of those little buggers.
When I came into the tech office this morning, I saw those little red ants … LOTS of them! Spring is truly here once they are active and about. I submitted a maintenance ticket describing the infestation. When my boss arrives, he will of course blame me. Okay, in my ten years here, I was responsible for one infestation of fruit flies, but just ONE. Because of that, I’m the Fall Guy for every insect sighting we have.
This morning, heading out to get a little breakfast, I saw a large bird flying low. Craned my neck, and it was a bald eagle!
I’m not in a big city or anything, but Muskegon ain’t exactly rural, and although there are lakes with snags of big - sometimes dying - trees (prime eagle territory) there’s nothing like that right nearby.
It was a pretty cool start to the day!
I think this (the following) is funny. Out on the bike today, going past a local lake, I saw a pair of Egyptian geese with three goslings. That’s mighty early, I thought - the first spring babies I’ve seen, I think. And then I thought - didn’t I see some Egyptian goslings very early last year? I bet I posted about that.
So I checked; there’s even a photo - it’s post #1232. And almost immediately adjacent to that post, we find this post:
What do you think, @purplehorseshoe? Must be the time of year.
j
They’re going nuts because they’ve got young ones to feed and the young ones have enormous appetites.
Watched this morning as our eaglet was fed a nice fresh fish. Watching yesterday as the mother eagle was trying to feed the young one some pigeon, but the 1st time dad would take it out of baby’s mouth and eat it himself. I’m not sure if this was his hunger and new parenthood or because Mom was trying to feed the young one gobbets as big as its whole mouth.
I think you have a better memory than I do!
A neighbor of mine has taken photos of eagles in the pine trees on her property and we’re nowhere near a large body of water. I think they’ve just been expanding their territory.
In other raptor news, when I got up this morning I was idly looking out the window when I saw a red shouldered hawk sitting on the fake rock in our front yard (it covers the well head). It’s near where the bird feeders are, so I was wondering if he took a swipe at one of the birds there and missed.