Yesterday I was impressed by the large amount of avian life that had congregated in the park. Quite a lot of ducks (all mallards or mallard-alikes so far as I could tell) on the lake, but most impressively, and I hadn't previously seen any of these this winter, a flock of redwings, at least 40 in number. I would imagine that all of this has been riding the east wind in order to escape from the nastiest weather.