Twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
Apr. 29th, 2014 12:35 amCurrently at Toronto Pearson: 10. High today: 13.
The big puddle is smaller, though still pretty big, and now teeming, in places, with fairy shrimp:

Note the apparent eggs!
The weird plant things seem even more likely to be tree suckers:

One of a number of little yellow downward flowers in the woodlot:

Starlings--fighting, mating, both?--in the York Village:

ETA: via this very nice blog, I learned that the yellow downward flowers are trout lilies, and the tree-like things are May apples ... though of course each of them have several other names besides.
The big puddle is smaller, though still pretty big, and now teeming, in places, with fairy shrimp:

Note the apparent eggs!
The weird plant things seem even more likely to be tree suckers:

One of a number of little yellow downward flowers in the woodlot:

Starlings--fighting, mating, both?--in the York Village:

ETA: via this very nice blog, I learned that the yellow downward flowers are trout lilies, and the tree-like things are May apples ... though of course each of them have several other names besides.