{"id":1568,"date":"2015-04-13T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2015-04-13T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T19:54:45","slug":"wards-pond-signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/wards-pond-signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward’s Pond: Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, on a truly spring-like day with warm temperatures and bright sunshine, we took a walk around Ward’s Pond, a small pond in Boston’s Emerald Necklace. Signs of spring abounded. <\/p>\n

Red maples were in bloom. And our migrant birds from the south were out and about. A very noisy flock of grackles was foraging in the leaf litter.<\/p>\n

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Common grackle<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\nMale red-winged blackbirds were flashing their red and yellow wing patches as they sang. However, no females were around to hear their song.<\/p>\n
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Singing red-winged blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A solitary tree swallow was flying low over the water, scooping up insects.<\/p>\n

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Tree swallow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And a few eastern phoebes were wagging their tails and chasing each other.<\/p>\n

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Eastern phoebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We even saw a half dozen painted turtles basking in the afternoon sun.<\/p>\n

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Painted turtle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ignore the small piles of snow in the shadows. Spring has arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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