Chaffinch

I heard the first chaffinch this year today. I was awoke by chaffinch's singing. This means that wrens are here and can be watch! Hurrah!

The butterfly

Today I saw the first butterfly this year!

Long-tailed duck

I am about birds again. Last week my friend and I saw a long-tailed duck on the Neva. As far as I understand it was an immature specimen. Why then it is migrating to the North?

Waterfowl

Though it is still cold a spring is coming and birds are arriving. There is an earliest open water patches on the Neva. As soon as the Neva opened a natatorial birds have been arriving. Last week (February, 24th) I saw a flock of he-mergansers. They stayed on the Neva more than three days.
Today I saw a red-wing among a fieldfares in Botanical Garden.

Shrovetide

A spring is coming! Today is a second day of Shrovetide. In spite of February cold some birds arrived to us. I saw singing greenfinches, a flock of fieldfare, and one blackbird among the fieldfare. In this year I want to see owls. I think it is time for hunting :)

Finished work

This year my friend and I invented some new model of a skirt. We laid the fotos open to public. At that very instant we were attack by an applications for the same. Now I finished one of skirts. I very proud of myself :)