'Aprilletje zoet geeft ook nog weleens een witte hoed'

This dutch saying translates to a little rhyme which means: “little April sweet sometimes has a white hat” (of course this rhymes in dutch but not in English).
The white hat is a metaphor for snowfall, although in this case it was hail and good size hail at that!

                                           

'Unfortunately', nowadays it happens only rarely. 
It is clear that temperatures continue to rise. Until the year 2000, there fell snow on two to four days in April but since then, that has become much less frequent. 

Apparently Mama Osprey survived the onslaught of this cold front and still sits bravely on her eggs (I presume) on top of her telephone-pole perched nest:

 

It was a busy Saturday again at the pond, lots of families trying to catch one of the legal-size, and sometimes larger "jumbo"or brood, rainbow trouts the Oregon Department Department of Fish & Wildlife stocks the pond with in early Spring.

Not too many birds are around on these busier days but I found a few I hadn't seen for a while, like this Wigeon:

     

     
                          And a few Common Mergansers ..

My bird-feeders back home are wildly popular, there's a whole flock of White Crowned sparrows and House Finches watching my every move in the morning when I walk around the RV to fill them.

                                                            

They're mostly waiting for me to scatter a few handfuls in the border and grass around the feeders which makes for much easier picking of course, especially for the Mourning Doves who cannot manage to hang from feeders.

And yes, these cheeky (literary) Chipmunks have caught on as well and hoover around the grounds trying to stuff as many seeds in their cheeks as fast as possible!

Yes, I see you!

So yes, besides that sudden hail-shower, which lasted only 10 minutes of so, the weather has been fairly good. The wind makes a lot of difference from day to day since when it blows it can be rather cold and when not it's quite pleasant.
Yesterday the temps reached almost 70F and today it's going to be even warmer!

But just so we won't get too excited about it all, the forecast is for 4 rainy days in a row, so ha .. Oregon is not done yet!

 

Here's a Variegated FritillaryButterfly just to show warmer days will be coming .. 
... eventually.

Only one more week until my Birthday. How on earth did that happen?