While running an errand yesterday I stopped at Crystal Spring Rhododendron Garden to take a short walk. The fact that I was traveling with my birding lens should tip you off to the fact that my stop at the garden was not an accident. To be fully transparent - I was hoping to locate the Green Heron that was photographed here a few days before.  

The bad news for me, besides the fact that I could not find the Green Heron, was that the garden was very crowded - duh genius - what else should have I expected to find during a warm crystal clear day in March in Portland, Oregon. Oh well.   

The good news is that during my short walk there I was able to capture a few fun images of the harbingers of spring.

Pictured below:

Pied-billed Grebe, Wood Duck, American Crow, Lesser Scaup, Mallard, and a frisky pair of Canada Geese certain to be lucky sometime soon.