Mid-April Things:

A Mourning Cloak sipping nectar in the flowers on our Norway Maple.

An American Robin was busy picking up garbage discarded by careless people.

It looks like the garbage has a new home.

I was lucky to find a Northern Mockingbird three days in a row! They are uncommon in our area. In the nineteenth century, people kept so many mockingbirds as cage birds that the birds nearly vanished from parts of the East Coast. People took nestlings out of nests or trapped adults and sold them in cities such Philadelphia, St. Louis and New York where in 1828, extraordinary singers could fetch as much as $50.00. (Cornell Lab, All About Birds)

Lookout Goose on a pavilion roof!

It has been interesting watching the dredging process near the entrance to the Sarnia Yacht Club. Sediment build up is an annual problem for the larger boats but this is the first time I have witnessed the dredging in progress.