List of lists

Bird Sightings Today (I had two classes out birding today, for a total of about 2.5 hours actual birding time.  This is what we saw):

yellow-rumped warbler (yeah, I'm starting with the most impressive-sounding)

common tern

unidentifiable brown diving duck

mallard duck

Canada goose

swan

sandpiper (the most common kind, I'm sure)

killdeer

RWBB

brown-headed cow bird

red-tailed hawk

turkey vulture

robin

mourning dove

goldfinch

house sparrow

tree swallow

starling

Notable leaf outs: 

American hazel

2 crazy maples at school that are ahead of the rest

chokeberry

Really swollen buds:

oaks

First flowers:

service berry

a few other ornamental flowering bushes I didn't stop to ID

Almost theres:

redbud

crab apple

bluebells

trillium

wild strawberry

Also notable:

my shooting stars have flower buds -- they are going to flower!  Success!

my queen of the prairie is going nuts

Seeds:

elm

Garden emergences:

carrots

lettuce

snap peas (over the weekend)

(spinach and radishes also progressing nicely)

I took photos of most of this, but decided there were too many to download...

And a sad, totally non-phenological tragedy (except as it relates to weather):

The winds must have been strong today.  I had a lovely [expensive] glass windchime that I got in Boulder a few summer ago.  Over the winter it lives in the kitchen, and when it's warm enough I put it on the porch.  It went out last weekend (along with the glass mushrooms).  Today I came home and found the string broken and the colorful glass plates shattered all over the deck.  So sad.  I guess I am in the market for a new windchime.