A pair of Mallard foraging the pollen that is falling into the lake from the trees and algae that is already forming due to the warm weather. I included the mallards in the video also.

Canada Geese pair, also in the video. They are all breeding and their will be young goslings soon.





The goose is beaded with water drops, it had just got out of the lake.

I thought this was an interesting view of the Canada Gooses plumage from this perspective.


Now to birds of the trees and ground, they are all very happy for the warmer weather and it is their breeding season too.
American Robin



Northern Cardinal singing to its mate.

A male Downy Woodpecker, it was eating insects from between the bark of the tree.



In the marshy area of the lake this Red-winged Blackbird was perched on a old cattail reed singing.



Another very handsome male Northern Cardinal.

I'm going to close this "Spring Has Sprung" with beautiful flowering Daffodils, a flowering tree with a bubble bee on it getting nectar, and a flowering Star Magnolia. I sure Love Springtime, everything in Nature is so ALIVE!!!!!!

Spring always comes to this area with thunder storms, which happened this week. I caught this photo of the storm clouds moving in and covering the late afternoon sun. The line in the clouds is a jet plane. A friend, Rose, pointed out it looks like a man in the cloud formation blowing the clouds.




Thanks for stopping by and I hope your Spring has Sprung also, if not it will come to your neck of the woods soon.

Beautiful pics and vid from earlier in the week Linda.
So nice to see the great weather and lovely reflection pics.
Thank you for sharing.

Hi Linda:

I am once more trying to catch up after being away for three weeks. I enjoyed all your recent photos, especially the swan reflections. You always come back with a great variety of photos. Also, belated congratulations on winning the photo contest. Your hard work paid off. Very, very sharp photo, and it looks even better when enlarged. I also have to give the eagle a little bit of credit for picking such a neat location to land with a great background.