As spring’s advance stopped and restarted the local and migrating birdies disappeared and reappeared.  Here are some samples of what they were doing.

Ring Billed Gulls doing a soft shoe on the ice:

… and putting on an airshow:

… with their well-fed friend doing the fly-by finale in the evening light:

Robin Red Breast implores photographer to cut back on the snow.  “Enough!” he says…….

While a pair of Starlings chuckle from their high wire act:

and this song sparrow sings its heart out …

and this tree sparrow scrabbles on a rare bit of ground for seeds …

and this Purple Finch or House Finch surveys the scene:

One local person believes that he has seen an Evening Grosbeak (“a great big goldfinch”) and Mary Holland reports that they are up to New England now.  We’ve seen a couple of small flocks of Sandhills flying around and a pair was seen on Belanger’s fields this spring.  So the spring migration is well underway.