Last Saturday, May 19 on a hillside above the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. 73 degrees and sunny, almost windless. Birds b & w warbler b-throated blue warbler b-throated green warbler ovenbird blackburnian warbler red-eyed vireo gr-crested flycatcher scarlet tanager (many singing) bluejay ravens osprey peregrine wood duck ring-billed gull double-crested cormorant Mammals porcupine—sunning on a horizontal limb otter—toilet (regular haul-out site) black bear (sign)—moving rocks looking for ants coyote—scat Reptiles (my reason for being there) five-lined skink—5 northern water snake—1 black rat snake—1 timber rattlesnake—79, many of which were slowly dispersing upward along the edge of a waterfall Fish spotted gar— 100+ spawning along the shoreline. Each 4-foot female was attended by three to five males. When I returned to the water in late afternoon sticky, pink-colered eggs covered the rocky shallows. bluegills — nesting in sandy patches away from the rocks