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Burlington Walk 3/7/2021

By andrew ianni

We are starting to see some signs of spring, one of the major ones seems to be the Robins have come out to play. I didn’t get any pictures of them because the day I went for my walk it got very cold but I noticed them the day before. They seem to like to land on the ground without snow on it, probably looking for some sort of food.

I believe that this is a Red Maple tree and here you can clearly see the buds on the ends of the branches.
For this Paper Birch tree, these may be the buds that are sticking off the ends of the branches. They are hard to see in this picture.
This is the beautiful Vermont spring snow.
A lot of the ground is cleared of snow but is still very well solid and frozen.
Somehow this tree held on to the majority of its leaves from last year. Not sure how that is going to work when it grows new ones.
This tree has a bunch of red berries in it, also this is one of the trees I saw a lot of Robins in the day before, so maybe they eat these?

I also did walk down to the waterfront and I watched the lake for a while for ducks like Walter was saying to. I saw a drake and hen mallard and a few wads of divers fly by way out in the lake, probably Blue Bills or Goldeneyes going back North.

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