ahhhh Spring ...

what can ya say?  Everybody's got a new mud coat.  There must be something totally delightful about getting right down in the mud and rubbing, and I mean hard... that only horses and three year olds know about.

Barley.  His owner could see his mud coat from the road as she drove in.

The birds are back. The red wing black birds along the creek are perched on last years rushes, telling each other tales of their winter.  The killdears are telling us to move out of the barn yard now now now! Flocks of geese are nibbling up good things in the hay fields.  Startled horses staring at the birds, startled geese staring back.  Soon we will be watching for the nestings.  Geese and turkeys will begin their territorial warfare across the hay field to see who wins the right to stand on the rock.  One day two geese, four turks...next day 10 turks, 40 geese.

Still waiting for the return of the barnswallows.

"The Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario (COSSARO) has added the Barn Swallow to the list of Threatened species to be regulated under the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA)." http://www.savanta.ca/index.php/blog/comments/Barn_Swallow_Listed_Threatened_Ontario

Hopefully the sandhill cranes will come back. We had a bit of a todo with them last year.  One got hurt and was very reluctant to let Jenn help.  Very reluclant, Dangerously reluctant.

Jon, feeling all handsome in his mud coat

Jacey, his paddock mate, clean and pretty…
 I wonder if she is impressed with Pig Pen there.
Maybe he did it for Penny?