Spring is coming to Blackwell Forest Preserve

The usual first of spring birds are arriving. The grackles, cowbirds, red-winged black birds.

At the front of the subdivision where we live, we have a sitting goose.

More swallows.

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe

Ring-necked duck, male

Ring-necked Duck

Male and female ring-necked duck

Snow Goose

Snow Goose, with a Canadian Goose
There was this one snow goose, with 14 Canadian geese.

Eight American Coot were at the lake in Blackwell Forest Preserve.

Saw a Killdeer by the entrance to our subdivision. 

Meadowlark

The miniature iris in our front garden.

Our daffodils have begun to bloom.

Daffodils

This whole post of daffodils was taken at Morton Arboretum, in Lisle , Illinois.
I don't have any idea what the names of  any of the daffodils are.  They were beautiful.  It was a sort of gray day that we spent hours on the drives through the Arboretum.  The scenes of the meadows was beautiful.

The arboretum has added many more  meadows of daffodils.  I have asked if they have a list of the ones used, but they don't .  There are so many of these I would like to have in my own gardens.

One the drive through the arboretum.

Another view

The views are gorgeous.

They have been naturalized beautifully.

All the pictures to here were taken on the West side of the arboretum. There is a road that divides the arboretum.

Starting here, the pictures were taken on the East side.

Looking across the pond, by the crabapple grove.

So many new areas have been planted with all different types of daffodils.