I went for a walk along a road in a wooded area yesterday and as soon as I began walking a blue-jay was in a small tree at a height just a little higher than the top of my head about 25 feet off the road to my left. It crossed the road to a tree to the right and stayed there as I walked by. Later on the walk I heard a branch of a tree falling and hitting other branches and looked in that direction and a big hawk had flown from the tree where the branch came from and was flying through the woods. The leaves are not fully developed on the trees yet in the thick part of the woods and it is still easy to see into the woods a decent distance, and the leaves are budding. Several days ago when I walked the same road I saw three finches in one small area, and later on that walk I saw three robins in one area. The robins were flying one after the other. Made me wonder if one of them was born this year and the other two were the parents. Three together is unusual, I have seen two together several times, but never three together.
SPRING IN HERE, and the wild animals, birds, and fish are surviving and reproducing, and getting by the same as any other spring in the past.