Spring has sprung

If you live near the Patoka River, you can't help but notice these noisy sandhill cranes in early spring

Spring has sprung. Finally.

Signs of spring seen and heard around the farm in the past week include: a pair of coyotes denning up behind the house, woodcocks doing their courtship flights at dusk, gobblers gobbling, thousands of snow geese flying over in the dark, and hundreds of extremely noisy sandhill cranes feeding in the fields below the house. The next thing we should hear is spring peepers.