Beautiful here today as well, nearly 60F ! The ruffed grouse were "drumming" out in the woods while I was doing a little cleanup in the garden, and the cormorants must be back because I heard some shooting in the direction of the river. I'm not crazy about the fact that the DNR supports shooting them, but the Lake Michigan fishery is a huge industry and the cormorants have really decimated a lot of the native species, so I see the point of it. Plus, up until the last 10 years or so, we never had cormorants in this area at all...
