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Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Mar 21, 2026
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Mayapples, with their umbrella-shaped leaves, will soon appear in most southern-Wisconsin forests.

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A young lad enjoys his Canada walleye lunch during rainfall at a remote lake cabin.

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Deer coats are made clean and tidy by early-spring rains.

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A fox squirrel turns to eating maple flower buds when sap flow diminishes.

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Tom turkeys are likely to display in rain, snow or shine.

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Turkeys preen their feathers after rain; the preening hastens drying.

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Jerry Davis For Agri-View

March showers wake up things, said Doug Williams at DW Sports Center in Portage, Wisconsin. Early blooming begins. Robins are able to find earthworms. White-tailed deer coats, even with old hair, look tidy.

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Jerry Davis is a freelance outdoors writer. Contact him at sivadjam@mhtc.net or 608-924-1112 for more information.