New Spring Sightings

This morning, feeding on spruce cones and seeds in the eaves and on the ground below, we saw a female crossbill and several pine siskins. We've heard the crossbills around for several days, we know they've had a lot of food with the huge spruce cone crop that was hanging on the trees all winter. So it was nice to finally see one of them. Friends from the Sterling-Moose River area reported seeing robins feeding in their yard yesterday. Also, they'd been hearing varied thrushes for about a week, as well as crossbills. And, 4 swans in the Moose River. We're headed out to see what's on the Kenai River Flats this morning.