Whacky weather....

Monday morning we awoke to 11cm of fluffy snow, a nice temperature of about -8C, and a somewhat clear sky. There were just a few soft mauve-grey clouds interspersed over the blue. The tree limbs were all outlined with snow, nature's artistry accentuated. How silent it was...there is nothing like a blanket of snow to muffle any noise. A gremlin deleted my pics!!! Perhaps it was him.

2020...Year of the Grinch

The next couple of days have been cloudy and grey, and the temperature is rising, so that now we are enveloped in a blanket of fog, as the just above freezing air temperatures interact with the snow. We are still in a white world, but sadly, the snow is melting.

We have had Evening Grosbeaks at the feeder, and even one lone Pine Grosbeak. They are a beautiful pink colour, but I wasn't quick enough with the camera. 

Tuesday night, just after 9PM, the wolves were howling, quite close, seemingly just across the road, and were being answered by another, a long, drawn out howl from much further away to the south. 

The trail camera shows that neither weather nor wolves interfered with the deer's activities. They went from this a few days ago

to this