Two days into Spring and the schedule is still off by about three weeks. Although the weather has cooled from the outrageous sixties of last week, the progressive regression of the lake ice continues. An inch of snow overnight is gone by the time I return form the daily grinder. We make 40 by two pm and barely freeze by daybreak. Yesterday there appeared chipmunks in various places around the woods. Poof! Sleepy from their winter's nap they are so very vulnerable now. But the dogs are equally rusty, so all the munks survive another day.
And the beavers are out at dusk under the full moon.
Onaabidin-Giizis
The snow crust moon
Not this year...........
Birds of note, new arrivals:
Redtailed Hawk
Sharpshinned Hawk
Sandhill Crane
Robin
Red-winged Blackbird
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganzer
Mallards at the home place
Perhaps a shoreline paddle tomorrow...............
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