Finally - some spring fauna have arrived

Happy St. Patrick's Day.  We have had snow on the ground since mid-January, and we were despairing of ever seeing a robin.

This morning, on the only cleared space - the driveway - four robins appeared.  By the time the camera was ready with a new battery, there was one left - sitting fluffed up in the viburnum.

This guy is a little hard to see in the driveway - it's probably a female or an immature male redwing blackbird.

This is the first time we have seen gray squirrels here.
Our squirrels are the red ones.

Here he is playing on an overturned chair.

And now, with about 16 inches of compacted snow on the ground, D has gotten an email that his trees will arrive by UPS tomorrow.