It was fabulous to hear the call of the red-winged blackbird again. No sooner had I stepped out of the car than I heard their calls from various locations. They may think that the +12 temperature and sunny skies mean spring is here. But not yet! A lone starling, several house finches, a mourning dove, many crows and chickadees, and ring-billed gulls overhead, as well as singing cardinals and a pileated woodpecker, were some of the other birds noted today.