The pond started very icy, but by the evening with the temperature reaching into the 60s, the pond’s surface finally thawed giving more room for the returning ducks to have a place to swim.
Melting Pond
Picture of the Day for April 9, 2023
A lot of snow melted overnight but the Easter bunny still had to navigate around snow patches and running water from the melting snow. Plus there was no new green clovers for him to eat either.
Easter Bunny in Snow Yet
Picture of the Day for April 8, 2023
I spotted the first ducks back this morning, but as three of them headed towards my pond, they waved off the approach at the last minute when they noticed the pond was frozen over yet. A pair of geese did have a tiny patch of open water just enough for both of them float side by side but not much room to do anything else. Maybe tomorrow some more of the ice will melt and hopefully the ducks will return to my pond.
Goose Leaving Frozen Pond
Picture of the Day for April 7, 2023
The day was filled with different critters today, from the skunk and raccoon eating the cat food in the barn, to the red-tailed hawk, bald eagles, geese and sandhills flying overhead while the pheasant and turkeys check beneath the bird feeder plus the deer on the side of the road not making up its mind where it wanted to go.
Deer Walking in Snow
Picture of the Day for April 6, 2023
As cold as it was this morning with single digit wind chills, my four tom turkeys might try breaking into my basement again to get out of the weather as this turkey doesn’t look like he cares for stepping on the cold snow.
Turkey Not Enjoying Winter
Picture of the Day for April 5, 2023
This pheasant was busy trying to find some seeds under the birder feeder now that a few patches of grass are showing after the rain melted some of the snow.
Seed Searching Pheasant
Picture of the Day for April 4, 2023
With the rain today, the snow drifts by the road corner melted some so that I don’t have to do the slow creep into the intersection to try to see around the high snow banks.
Snow Drifts Shrinking
Picture of the Day for April 3, 2023
This cardinal wasn’t happy during the snow storm as the limb broke that I had the bird feeders tied to and not too much of the feeder was sticking out of the snow. He was able to get some seeds after the squirrels dug some of the snow away.
Unhappy Cardinal
Picture of the Day for April 2, 2023
The sun came out on this Sunday afternoon and with the gift of new snow from Mother Nature, one could play in the snow in the 40s and build a snowman.
April Snowman
Picture of the Day for April 1, 2023
Mother Nature played a nasty April Fools’ Day prank as it dumped heavy wet snow overnight which made it look like winter instead spring and caused many people hours to shovel this morning.
Nature’s Joke
