Wildlife Sightings - Spring is Here!

You'd never know it based on the snow flying outside, but spring has arrived in Saint John. I can say this with confidence because all of a sudden every local animal you could think of is out and about, and most of them are travelling in pairs.

This weekend my partner and I took a drive up the river to look at a property we're interested in (by the way, if anyone has waterfront or waterview property for sale please let me know!). It was a gorgeous sunny day and as usual the water sparkled, reflecting perfectly the still-bare tree limbs that are coated in ice and resemble Christmas tinsel.

The day was so perfect we decided to take the long way home which includes a couple of ferry rides - here's a list of the birds and beasts we saw on our two hour cruise:

• My first robin of the season... spring really is here! Although he flew right out in front of the car and we just missed him - we almost killed spring!


• Canadian geese with goslings (I didn't know they hatched so early)


• A very unusual small flock of water fowl that seemed to be nesting on ice floating in the middle of the river - if anyone can hazard a guess I'd be interested to know what they were


• More deer than I could count


• More molting bald eagles that I've ever seen in one day!


• An unidentified eagle being harried by some crows - huge bird, flying solo... may have been a golden eagle but he flew behind the trees before we could get a close look


• A white hare...


• ...who unforunately met his match in the fox we saw just moments later.