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First, this little guy showed up... |
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...and boy was he HUNGRY!! |
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Then, 2 much larger ones came the next day. |
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...no, this is NOT an exaggeration! |
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Each one came and stayed for more than an hour at a time, eating the ENTIRE time! |
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And then the birds and ice came... |
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Then the squirrels (we should have REALLY known something was brewing by now...they usually chase each other away from the food!) |
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Then, the snow came!
March 8, 2008 |
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About 9:30am, March 8, 2008.
At least 6" of snow. |
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Looking out from the front door...as the snow piles up |
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Garbage cans are a good way to measure snow depth, LOL! :) |
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Can't even find half the bushes that are under all the snow! |
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Stonecrop turns to mushrooms ;) |
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Liam's slide and a bush out back |
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Liam was amused by the snow on his swingset |
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Poor Mrs. Cardinal! She's hanging on for dear life in the wind. |
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Song Sparrow braces against the snow and wind |
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Red-Bellied Woodpecker stops by for some extra crunchy peanut butter (lots of protein; helps keep birds warm! :) |
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They gathered in the trees near the feeders |
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Including the largest flock of Red-Winged Blackbirds we've ever seen! |
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Poor guy, covered in snow! |
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If you feed them...they will come...'specially in a blizzard! |
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Although there were a few other birds (like Cowbirds and Grackles) in this flock, there were still about 50 Red-Winged Blackbirds. |
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Now it's around noon...several more inches of snow |
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Just bumps where the boxwoods "used to be". |
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And more snow piles up around the doors (about 10" on the ground now). |
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...and it continues to snow... |
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And the doggies need to GO! |
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Kinda hard to go in the snow! |
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Then they decided to make the best of it and decided to play: ("How many can you catch on your tongue, Duncan?!" says Emmett. :) |
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"I think I made a BIG mistake!" (Yellow-Shafted Flicker, wishing he'd stayed south just a few more days, or maybe a month!) |
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"Come on, Dude, share the peanut butter feeder!" (says the Nuthatch to the Flicker) |
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"Yeah, we want some too!" (says the male Downy Woodpecker, braving the big beak!) |
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"If I hide just so, maybe he can't see me?" (thinks the Nuthatch) |
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Larry decides we'd better start clearing some snow or we may NEVER get out (more than a foot now)! |
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So he clears the driveway, but it just piles back on behind him (this is minutes after he used the snow thrower). |
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And our mailbox doesn't look too good out there, but at least you can see it now. Wind and snow letting up a bit. |
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Liam enjoys the snow the next day :) |
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He had fun trying to walk (it was up to his thighs in places) |
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