This past week I got the feeling that Mendota and Monona are poised for breakup. This afternoon we went for a walk along Raymer's Cove in the Lakeshore Preserve and saw sheets of ice bobbing back and forth just off the Lake Mendota shore. These were still 6 inches thick and heavy enough to hold up a few humans interested in ice hopping. We noticed a river of open water snaking across the middle of the lake and lots of dark grey ice actively melting in the 70 degree sun. The lake will soon be open. We then saw our first golden-crowned kinglets of the year flitting through brush and avoiding photographs. Then at the top of Eagle Heights Woods we saw a couple of eastern comma butterflies getting sun.
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