March update:

3/19

Beaver on Front Pond.

Cowbirds and phoebes are back on campus.

Woodcocks

Snow fleas

Skunk Cabbage

Salamander search results: 50+ red spotted newts; 20 red backed salamanders; 23 dusky salamanders; 3 two lined salamanders; 2 tadpoles; 1 freezing cold green frog

3/20

Sunny, blue skies. SPRING EQUINOX!

3/21

3-4" snow overnight

2 canada geese and 2 mallards at swamp

3/27

three bald eagles

hawks

robins, ravens and crows

3/29

Hepatica and dutchmans breeches at Zimmerman Farms (foliage, but no flowers yet)

Bear scat at the knoll house

3/30

Turkey tracks by vernal pool

Masses of amphibian eggs in vernal pool

3/31

Spring peepers

Woodcocks

Canada Geese

Wild turkeys - gobbling each night on lower campus

Honeysuckle leaves are starting to unfurl

Red maple buds are turning the hillsides a dull red

4/1

Wood duck

Mallards

Woodcocks

1-2" of snow overnight

4/2

Turkeys gobbling

4/4

Common mergansers on front pond