The weather has been terrible here as well, so I missed doing my walk to check on the swans for a full week. Sure enough, the cygnets were born and are already big enough to not need the nest anymore!
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Also, the largest hawk I’ve seen in the area, bigger even than some of the eagles, but I never got a proper look so I don’t know what type:
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Quality Blurd Picture
These guys seem to be spreading further and further through our neighborhood: I think it started before the lockdown, but I wonder if decreased traffic is making them bolder. Usually have one flitting about the front yard all day.
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The Windhover
To Christ our Lord
I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstacy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
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According to the Seek app, a white ermine moth (spilosoma lubricipeda).
Showiest moth I’ve ever seen.
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If that wasn’t a rhetorical question, I’m guessing a fox squirrel and a grey squirrel loved each other very, very much. 
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Oh God, now the squirrels have started to mess with our heads.
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In Arkansas they would come to my parents windows at night to catch insects attracted to the lights inside the house. We could tell who was doing well, because their bellies were translucent enough for us to watch them fill up.
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Pedantry Corner: Order, not species.
And they’re one of the oldest orders of reptiles, but outside of that group not particularly ancient.
Have to find something nice for Mona today.
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Are spurs supposed to be cute? 
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She also answers to “Princess Pokey-Pants”.
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Of course they are…can’t wait to hear them while trying to get some fresh air this summer! 
I’m going to find a countdown clock for this year - and a nice bottle of bubbly to open when it is over.
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