(Editor's Note: Thanks to David for these lovely photos! The Oldman would love to publish your "Signs of Spring" notes and photos, too! Have a lovely Easter!)
Springtime in the Canadian Rockies:
On a morning recently, it dawned white, revealing an overnight blanket of knee-deep snow—walking isn't easy—and precious few signs of spring.
But beneath 500+ Bohemian waxwings, dozens of pine grosbeaks, gray-crowned rosy-finches and other "winter" birds, and just above a foraging moose, no less than 11 robins give some hope that the mountain bluebirds and emerging spring wildflowers seen late last week will once again expose themselves.
These bluebird photos courtesy Dames on the Range
The attached images give you a feel for the day—the cow moose stands, fittingly, between a small moose-ravaged aspen and an equally ravaged saskatoon (serviceberry).
The best,
David
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