More birds, more snow.
Last week's snow all melted (other than the piles where it'd been cleared, and in the areas which get no sun), and now it's snowing again. They tell us we'll get 5" or so by the time it's done. whee.
The grackles showed up about the same time the lady blackbirds did, and I saw some starlings this morning, so we now have our full complement of black birds. A squirrel just wandered across the ice on the pond -- late yesterday afternoon, there was almost no ice on the pond, but it got cold and windy, and that (plus the snow falling) was apparently enough to freeze a skin. It looks like it's a slushy skin, but the squirrel wasn't getting wet or leaving any tracks.
The grackles showed up about the same time the lady blackbirds did, and I saw some starlings this morning, so we now have our full complement of black birds. A squirrel just wandered across the ice on the pond -- late yesterday afternoon, there was almost no ice on the pond, but it got cold and windy, and that (plus the snow falling) was apparently enough to freeze a skin. It looks like it's a slushy skin, but the squirrel wasn't getting wet or leaving any tracks.