Spring is Coming to Bennington Lake

 

The most noticeable spring arrival was a western meadowlark serenading us with his beautiful song from the top of a pine tree.  A few mallards were back on the lake with the usual common mergansers, four ring-billed gulls circled the lake and came down for a look, two killdeer were along the shore, a hairy woodpecker was busy cleaning out a hole in a tall snag, a turkey vulture flew overhead and a female northern harrier was harassing a young red-tailed hawk that must have been in her territory.  A few early shrubs were beginning to show some green and the willow branches are all turning color.  There may be snow a few miles away, but the lake is beginning to look like spring.          Ginger