We saw the first birds this morning that aren’t the usual winter suspects. There was a small flock – about a dozen – of Pine Siskins on our redbuds, and the Merlin app called a Cedar Waxwing and a Indigo Bunting. We used to have a nesting pair of Buntings that returned every year, but something must have happened to them, because that was a few years ago.
Merlin also called a wild turkey. If that was really so, it’s early. Turkey season doesn’t open until the last Saturday in March, and they usually aren’t into it until later in the season here in the mountains. But then, everything seems early this year.
The morning porch temperature was 62. The forecast high is 75, but it won’t reach that here.
We’ve had about 3/8 inch of rain recently. It is supposed to rain more tonight, and I sure hope so, because it’s been a too dry for this time of year. I’ve been somewhat alarmed because several times the weather service has called for 80% rain and forecast an accumulation – usually a sure sign that it’s going to happen – but it didn’t rain. That’s made me worry that we may be headed into another drought at just the worst time of year for it.