Phenological Photos - First Week of April

Thin Legged Wolf Spider
hunting in the leaf litter
Fishing Spider at the local creek
Song Sparrow sings over wetland
Hermit Thrushes work through
the woodland understory
American Tree Sparrow

Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers on Big Tooth Aspen


Hooded Mergansers 
Male Red Wing Blackbirds
sing in the wetland 


Wood Ducks return
Kingfisher 'buzzes' down the
creek looking for fish
Brewer's Blackbirds
First Mourning Cloak Butterfly emerges
Brown Creeper searches for insects
American Hazelnut flowering

Green Stink Bug