It's Baaacccckkkk!.........

 March 29, 2025

 We went from this on March 21...

to this, this morning.

We spent a couple of hours clearing snow, shovelling the snow-plough ridge at the end of the driveway, then got out the snowshoes to tramp around and pick up the SD chips out of the trail cameras.

The snow pictures are much darker than reality.

The deer have been filtering back out of their yards and are showing up on the trail cameras.

 

This fellow showed up on a trail camera positioned to see over a major deer trail. Obviously, he knows about it as well!

 Racoons are awake, and leaving their little five-fingered prints on the snow under the bird feeders.

Yesterday, while pruning a couple of apple trees, we heard a different bird song from a black and white someone high up in a poplar tree. Merlin said it was a Northern Shrike. Who knew that predator could sound so lovely? The Juncos are here, and a male and female Evening Grosbeak were foraging under the feeders one recent morning. Earlier in the week, we returned from an outing to find our yard inundated with robins. There had to be dozens. The snow had melted off of our clearing a lot, so guess it was a beckoning oasis surrounded by the still white bush. 

Spring has been advancing and retreating all week. Several little snow flurries have whited out the bare ground on various days, but they soon melt back to the edges of the slowly retreating winter snow pack.

 Apparently we are now to expect freezing rain and rain. March came in like a lion, and appears to be leaving as one as well!