I don’t know if my perception is correct, but it seems there are more eagles in Marquette County than in the past.  I see them frequently through the year.  Sometimes they are eating carion in fields or the side of the road and other times I see them soaring overhead.  They allow me, when perched in a tree, to get fairly close to snap some photos.  This one was just north of Montello.

A walk on an early spring day in Marquette County shows skunk cabbage or Symplocarpus foetidus growing in wet areas.  This plant actually can generate heat to melt snow.  Down the road is fresh evidence of beavers hard at work. 

Spring shows itself

The streams and rivers have opened up.  Robins are flying about and the call of the sand hill crane can be heard.  Turkeys are fanning and crows are building nests.