spring is for songbirds

One of the beauties of Toronto's late-starting Spring is the return of the song-birds.

On the weekend I spotted a robin while taking Kenny out for a stroll down the boardwalk. Then this morning in the pre-dawn gloom I heard some birds and went back to the bedroom to open the window a crack so that Mari could hear the bird song. It's not something you typically hear in either Tokyo or Miyazaki, where she grew up. She seemed well pleased with the sounds. Of course, it's going to snow tonight and tomorrow, but apparently the robins will tough it out just fine.