The birds let us know that Spring is really coming. Northern harriers on our prairie are performing their aerial courtship displays, migrating waterfowl are stopping by for a rest on our two ponds and streams of Sandhill cranes have been seen often on their way north. Bluebirds are being seen and are checking out the numerous houses on the property. We hope we will hear the Bob white call of the quail in the spring but fear that the many days of ice-covered vegetation may have done many of them in. With the habitat we provide for them they will surely make a comeback.