Hot and humid today, so I kept it easy on the Sun Prairie bike paths. The trees literally started budding today. The hot weather made the new leaves pop out finally! I've been enjoying all the birds around here. There is a bird in every tree! I've see hundreds of robbins, of course (WI's state bird). And lots of cardinals, geese, swans, ducks, oreals, some kind of bright yellow warbler. Today I also had two huge birding scores. First, I saw a wood stork, an endangered species. It was sitting on the edge of the lake. I got within about 15 feet of it, and the thing was huge. Almost as tall as me! I almost expected it to shake my hand and introduce itself to me. Then, I drove my grandparents through the UW-Madison Arboretum, and we saw wild turkeys - the males were all puffed out!
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