I have been able to do some more walks along the Tanana, even though the snow has not melted yet. Last Wednesday, I noticed these two moderately-tall trees, which I believe are both the same kind of Willow tree, but with different gender catkins. My understanding is that the furry catkins are male.
=> willow tree (female?) | willow tree (male?)
It has been sunny and beautiful during some of my walks. I have been watching the Tanana slowly melting, with a channel of flowing water opening up in the middle, and some pools of water developing along the edges. I have had some fun also bringing out my astronomy binoculars to observe some far away trees as well as birds. On Monday I observed one bird flying away towards a very tall leafless tree - and when I trained my binoculars on it I was able to watch a small grey and white bird on the top branch, which was looking around here and there, and preening itself. This makes me think it would be nice to have a spotting scope with a built-in camera, if there is such a thing.
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