Signs of Spring
The week has really been full of signs of spring - even to someone who has been tied down with writing, it's impossible to miss them during the brief trips out into the sunlight:
1. The first yellowjacket of spring. Interestingly, this is two genuses worth of insects. How many live around here? Not sure, but this site seems to be telling me that the most likely suspect is Vespidae Pennsylvanica. Stinging insects had always been something that put me into fight or flight, until I finally got bitten by one of these a few years back. It hurt. Not much. Since then, I have been trying to get to know the pollinators around here. We fear what we don't understand, right?
2. First worm. Fittingly, with the worm moon, I saw a robin pulling a worm up out of the ground. Not sure what kind of annelid it was, but the ground is warm enough for them to be moving around just fine.
3. Pacific chorus frog (or Pacific tree frog). They're singing! Nothing says spring like the sound of these guys filling the night.
The other two animals of note in the last week: Common Raccoon, and . . . a fish. I was at the mouth of the Cedar River and a fish - easily over a foot long - jumped up out of the water. Twice. And I realized that I have not a clue what the list of possibilities even is at this time of year.
So fish and worms will be my homework until next time!
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