Upon returning to my site, I found that the shrubbery had started to leaf (namely a few honeysuckle bushes and some others that I could not identify. There were also fiddle heads in their early stages along the sloped side of the trail. At the trail entrance for my site, I saw some robins and a black capped chickadee, and while walking the usual trail, I heard a few other bird calls that I think are attributable to a sparrow and a jay of some sort. In the ravine next to the trail, I noticed some water (it appeared to be stagnant) that I did not see in the fall semester or during the winter, and in general, due to the melting snow and recent rains, the ground was much damper that it had been at previous visits, though not quite muddy enough to distinguish tracks.
