Snowing here too Scott. Surprisingly ther are a bunch of Barn Swallows skimming the surface of the big pond while it's snowing. It's usually done snowing by the time they arrive. I can't imagine what they're eating as I'm not seeing any insects or a hatch. There must be some midges hatching or something that I can't see.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
Barn Swallows showed up here on Monday. Put the plugs back in the Martin house to keep the English House Sparrows and Starlings out. I was shooting about one per day when they kept looking for the "vacancy" sign. @ 50 Yds the .17 MachII works wonders.
It got to be easier just to put the plugs back in.
I need to look at the Martin migration chart. I swore that I heard one Sunday/Monday, but couldn't see it.
Yep, Walkerton reported them 4-14, South Bend 4-23.
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Our new house house has a Purple Martin house that was not pluged last year...We cleaned it out and raised it before we closed on the house because they were already flying in the area...It appears to be about full already...
Hey Dwight, how about some more snow pictures? We have been laughing out butts off here at the nursing home. People think we have it bad but they have no idea of what you poor blokes are going through. Maybe you, TJ and Omaha need to pool your money to buy a rooster. There are instructions on the internet to sacrifice it correctly. The nursing home is taking us to the beach tomorrow. I doubled up on my reading glasses(went from a 3 to 6) as the rage is string throngs. I have fished with bigger strings on my ultra-light reels. What kind of swim suits do you have up there? Three or four piece, does the fur go on the inside or outside. Maybe you should not have bought part of the NaNook family farm.Take care and don't forget winter starts on Sept.1.
Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
Sunday it was 83 degrees here, Monday it was 84 degrees, yesterday it got into the upper 70's, and now it is snowing hard and starting to accumulate on the grass. We might wake up to 1-3" of snow on the ground by morning.
.62" of rain so far here but the wet white stuff is sticking to the ground. I am sure you are going to get some wet white stuff too, it's heading your way. Funny how this mornings forecast said the white wet stuff was not likely to accumulate here.
Details:Breezy...Colder. Isolated thunderstorms in the evening. Rain and light sleet until early morning. Snow through the night. Snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
After seeing that, I looked up weather.com and I like yours better. It said 2-4", and more at higher elevations. LOL, I wonder what they consider higher elevations around here?
Our roof was the first place where I noticed the sleet starting to accumulate. That was at 5:30, a few hours later it started collecting on the grass and now it's well covered.
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