These fellows were in our backyard this week. I suppose that technically, they're not really a sign of spring because they don't migrate, but this is the time of year when I start listening for their calls. We have a pair of cardinals that nests nearby in the summer; no females were about the day I snapped these pictures.
Proud to be a public school teacher for 26 years, I see teaching as a radical act. Practitioner of Neo-schoolmarmism. School Library Media Specialist. I am a convinced Quaker, born again agnostic, mother of 3 daughters, passionate about issues of peace and social justice. My mom was a "red diaper baby", my dad was a conscientious objector during WW2, and I grew up in the thick of anti-war protests in Madison, Wisconsin in the sixties. Not a Republican bone in my body and not many Democratic ones either.