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Since I've so far failed to create any sort of consistent phenological journal, I'll make use of the blog for it.

As yet I've seen nothing in bloom here but the crocuses and the snowdrops.  But I saw the year's first mourning cloak butterfly.  I think it was drinking where sapsuckers have been tapping the black maple.  The bluebird and the nuthatches are still contesting the bird house.