Spring is sprung

Jeff Reardon

Jeff Reardon

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Temps approached 60 today. I had a work event over in Concord, NH, where it was even warmer, and on my home this evening noticed ice out in many bits of moving water that were frozen on my way over to NH yesterday. Every patch of open water I saw was loaded with ducks. Also saw my first of year great blue herons, turkey vultures, and woodcock.

At home, in fields I snowshoed last weekend, there are patches of bare ground, and the deer have come out of the thick stuff and into the open looking for the first green shoots.

And the first crocus has emerged. I swear I saw a swelling bud.

Our forecast is for cold rain tomorrow turning to snow overnight into Easter, but another couple of warm days and that crocus will bloom.
 
Jeff, I feel your pain. We are in the same boat as you with the snow. We are supposed to get 1 to 3 inches tonight, then more on Monday and Tuesday. I have to admit the 65 degrees we saw today was, for lack of better terms, AWESOME.
 
Tom, as long we are measuring any forecast snow in inches instead of feet, spring will be here soon. Our snowpack is going fast now.
 
it is not coming fast enough for me. Tomorrow is my last day of skiing and I am almost out of wood. One of the culverts in the drive is frozen solid, so my drive is a mess.
The critters are out though. Seeing deer, turkeys, duck and geese.
 
Jeff, it has been a long time since I have seen a crocus. I sure hope you will post a picture of it. Glad it is warming up for you. It is good to know that the deer survived all that deep snow.
Al
 
Spring has not sprung until I've used Tim Jones name and the word 'pansy' in the same sentence...

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our predicted snow didn't happen last night- in fact the sun is out on a cool morining

and after two days of nice weather the ice is out around here-

had the dogs out this morning and heard a lone goose close overhead and watched as he cupped his wings and slid to a stop on the pond across the field

two days ago he would have broken something trying that
 
Seeing lots of Geese heading north to the seaway. Ice is stills several feet thick on the lakes and the frost is still freezing water lines in town. A pair of Geese have taken up residence on the river at work and my fishing rods will have to wait. At least the sun is out.
 
and after two days of nice weather the ice is out around here-
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What part of the country are you in?

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western New York- edge of the finger lakes- the ice is off the ponds around here

i have not been down to the place on the lakes to see yet- i expect that is not completely gone yet but will be any day
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I was talking to a friend about a May brook trout trip the other day. He's predicting May 20 ice out on the lake at his camp, probably a little later at the smaller remote ponds we want to fish. I think he may be off by a week, but it's still 6 weeks to ice out in the north country.
 
The Spring atlantic salmon season opens on the Miramichi in New Brunswick 11 days from today. I'm thinking I'm glad I won't get up there until May 1st. View from a friend's camp just the other day:





Gary
 
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Don't know if this mud season pic got up. Still IT challenged.
Here in Cambridge, New York, our open wetlands are filled with geese and ducks, wall to wall at times. Corn was cut so late last year that cut fields are just filled with migrating birds. Yesterday, watched flock after flock of blacks ducks and mallards pour into a field that was cut just before the snow and at the end of the season last year. Snow this afternoon on the cusp of a cold front. Watching waterfowl takes the edge off of this weather.
Be well all.

James Woods



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