The decorated cookies and cupcakes was about the only green around here for St. Patrick’s Day as it still looks like Christmas with all the remaining snow. It sure would be nice to see a green covered rock and not a white covered rock.
Hidden Green Hideaway
Yesterday I saw some trumpeter swans flying overhead, and maybe with the melting, there might have been some puddles of water but not enough for them to land and swim around in yet so I don’t know where they were headed to.
Trumpeter Swans Return
This morning there was some faint sundogs around the sun created by the ice crystals in the air. Course the calves didn’t seem to care about the sky but only that I was delayed putting their feed out by taking the picture.
Faint Sundogs
I was driving on a back road today when I spotted a row of round hay bales that were wrapped in white plastic lined up in a row in a field, and they looked similar to old breakwater posts covered in ice and snow I saw in a Lake Superior harbor.
Ice Coated Posts
Yesterday when I was raking snow off my roof, I heard and saw a sandhill crane headed north. It should have been headed back south as there is no bare ground at my place and my pond is still frozen. The crane might have been reading a calendar since seven years ago, they came back to this scene where there was no snow remaining. Otherwise, the female crane might have sent the male (as they mate for life) ahead to find the perfect nesting spot before the spring rush, but locating a good spot under two feet of snow might be tough.
Crane Back Early
Another day was spent shoveling snow and raking snow off my roof after Mother Nature decided to redecorate with white again.
Coated White Again
Yesterday when I was driving from work, I spotted an owl sitting in a tree which was probably a Barred Owl from the glimpse I had of it. The Barred Owl is twice the size of this little red morph variety of the Eastern Screech-Owl. When I took this picture, this owl was napping in the sun but today it would have been catching snowflakes instead.
Eastern Screech-Owl
This poor cardinal was hiding on the backside of the bird feeder to get out the wind and to try to get some seed which wasn’t buried from the falling snow.
Hiding Cardinal
This old barn isn’t providing as much protection against the snow as it had in the past and with more snow on the way, the roof may sag even more after the snow storms.
Sagging Barn
With a forecast predicting three different waves of snow during the next several days, I think this poor tree will remain highlighted in white instead of green leaves.
Bare White Tree
