Despite the snow and the cold winds, chickadees were singing their spring song, as this one was doing. Nearby, cardinals were doing the same thing, though it felt more like early January than mid-March. The red-winged blackbirds are back (have been for some time, lured by the earlier milder weather) and calling from a few locations around the garden. As there are no cattails in the pond after the massive rehabilitation project in the autumn, there isn't anywhere for them to nest and so they probably won't stick around this spring. Perhaps next year there will be cattails again.