Date: 04/12/2005

Number: 1

Saw a robin last Tuesday (April 12). I do a 25 mile bicycle commute from my house on
the Anchorage Hillside down along a bird sanctuary, and right in along the
coastal bluffs above Cook Inlet I come across what is apparently some pretty
prime robin habitat. I say apparently, because a big, fat, presumably male
robin comes and claims the same tall cottonwood every year right about this
time.

Lots of activity this week, too: bald eagles playing in the rising air
currents reflecting off the lake that gives our school its name; geese
everywhere; swans coming by in pairs; gulls making their appearances at the
same time the ravens mysteriously disappear for the summer. The bears are
already starting to browse garbage cans up in my Hillsode neck of the woods
along 500,000 acre Chugach State Park; Certainly all signs of spring.

Though we're under a heavy snow warning right now the signs of spring are
everywhere. Any white stuff that falls will not last a week. Further north
at my cabin the snow is dropping by the foot. Now it's probably only six
feet to dirt.

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Anchorage, AK

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