After an uneventful morning walk I came home to find a Yellow-rumped Warbler twittering softly and flitting from branch to branch in the maple behind my barn. Yellow-rumps are hardy. I've seen them in late October, and some winter along the New England coast subsisting on berries in the absence of insects.
And a Mourning Cloak butterfly was flying. Mourning cloaks overwinter as adults and , therefore, are among the first butterflies seen in the spring.
John
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