Those familiar with Crosby Park would not be surprised at finding a Pileated Woodpecker, Barred or Great-horned Owl, and other such winter residents. Today, however, there were a couple of infrequent visitors on the river there, on the ice just downstream of Pike Island. A couple of Trumpeter Swans were basking peacefully in the waning sun, just gazing at the ever-larger section of open water below the mouth of the Minnesota. The expanding open waters must have been attractive to the eagle soaring above the park, too. They certainly were to me. (Fingers crossed on the rate of snow-melt, and the flood-fearcast.) Linda Whyte
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