A sometime Spring

Another variety pak.

Hide and Seek?

1st Spring Bull Moose

It is Spring. But that is not dandruff on their shoulders.

Tues AM at Sheriff Creek Sanctuary.

Hooded Mergansers have arrived and are looking for housing.

A female flies up to check it out.

Hangs on at the entrance

and sticks head in to inspect.

apparently likes what she saw and now checking out the view

Making advances?

And the first Otter of the season.         Alone for now.

either grooming or it's got an itch

Other assorted visitors to the marsh

Friday AM Sheriff Creek

Red fox rounding the corner on the dam. Surprised to see me.

Stopped to stare

Then beat a retreat.

Some observers

Not impressed with state of feeder

Fisher hunting on ice and more

Fisher was chasing something( too small to photograph) on the ice of Moose Lake.

The prey appeared to  go into the open water and head back in the direction they came from

Very early arrival of a pair of Sand-Hill Cranes.

Ring-Necked Ducks

Spring assortment.

Canada Geese and Common Mergansers

Beaver at sunset, Feeding.

Broad-wing Hawk

4th year Bald Eagle

"You go, see if the ice is solid"

" Nope, nothing but slush"

Bobcat returns to the wild.

Transferred from the caring hands of the Wild At Heart animal rehab center we released a full grown Bobcat.
Once the cage was open it set a new land speed record.