Looking up

Things are looking up here in West Marlborough Township: in the past few days I've received two emails from neighbors sharing their avian news.
One was nice enough to sent me a video she took showing flocks of black birds flying past the bare trees, chirping away like crazy. She wrote: "Every Spring, we get literally thousands of little birds that swarm through our property for just one day. They are so noisy that we can hear them from inside the house, even with the doors and windows shut. It really is magical!"
Reports another: "I am so very EXCITED - I heard the Canada geese begin their northern migration on Monday over the farm.  Every year they make a particular sound as they migrate north or south over the farm. I put that on Facebook and several said it was no big deal, but then another friend who is really into birding posted photos of the migration which he saw over towards the Oxford area.  Then the migration continued yesterday and this morning  - TRUMPET SOUND!!!!!!" She adds that there are Purple Martins building nests in her back-yard Purple Martin house. "Spring is really on its way!"
I think we are ALL ready for spring. Didn't it feel positively balmy when the thermometer rose above freezing for a few days? Muddy, yes, but warm!