Dwight, I have it on good authority that the "winter that won't end" will indeed end some time the next month or so! Our shovelers are feeding in the fields because the open water is so cold that invertebrate production is still very low. Kind of hard on late migrants like shovelers.
Must have been an interesting time to be alive in North America as just a few years before were the massive New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 that rang church bells as far as Boston.
Our shovelers are feeding in the fields because the open water is so cold that invertebrate production is still very low. Kind of hard on late migrants like shovelers. 
