Spring Advances- Birds and More New Flowering

It was too windy last Friday for another bike ride- and it rained the rest of the weekend. So I headed back to Whitewater Park for more rambling. I have realized that part of me wants to record the coming of spring. This week I was more aware of the birds.

The feeders outside the park office were busy. The Goldfinches, perhaps being the most common. But they were joined by others, there and around the park.







But it was the expanding colors that was most obvious. They are now truly beginning to mix, blue, yellow, white. Many of the flowers are still small, but the green spreads and with it the colors of spring.


The biggest discovery was the first blooming of the trout lily. I had been watching on place with a few leaves coming up, but they hadn't bloomed yet. Over along Trout Run Trail, though, the first blooms were up with many more yet to come.




I am more amazed at the park every time I go. I discover new places, but also the changes in the old familiar places. As spring continues I will continue to be renewed, I am sure, along with the park.

Just what the doctor ordered after this past winter.