On a mid-day walk I saw: 2 little girls all dressed up to watch someone graduate from college; a martin chasing a black-crowned night heron away from the martin house; young goslings with their parents; an American egret and a snowy egret sharing a riffle where the fishing was good- I saw the American catch and eat 3 fish; red-winged blackbirds guarding their nests (last Sunday on a walk I got too close to a nest and one of them actually made contact with my scalp, I had little scratches from his claws, at least he didn’t peck me); catalpas are blooming.