Had our first outdoor Barbecue today! Also had our first Great Blue Heron visit the oxbow, saw another huge flock of Tundra swans moving across the sky, Ice on the river is disappearing at last. Saw American white pelicans out there the other day. The oxbow is still mostly ice. The sandhill cranes were out the other day poking around in their traditional nesting area, but since the cranes still seem to be going about in pairs, I don’t think they are nesting yet. I normally see them on their nest by April 5, with hatching about May 5 or so. Spring is finally in the air.