We have reached eleven months of Coronia and two-thirds of another Maine winter. We are expecting the slow return of Spring, Summer, and the Fall. We hope to start seeing more birds and fewer tracks in the snow to mark the end of Winter.
We found a very interesting group of tracks of all sizes the other day on our hike.
As our weather meanders deeper into winter, our time in the woods gets shorter and shorter. It doesn’t go above freezing anymore. More and more forest life leaves only their tracks and most of them are mysteries.
Kitty cat
With tiny tracks
Walks through the winter
This could be a progress chart on pandemic impacts or snow on our garage roof.
We have had little chance so far this winter in getting some good bird pictures. But a little light snow and some time in the back woods did provide us with some “almost” bird images!
From our 2017 trip along the Inside Passage in southeastern Alaska.
It was weeks ago before the ice came that we saw this on Woodbury Pond. Now, the ice is here, the Republican stormtroopers have assaulted the US Capitol, and the nation has lost over 350,000 people in nine months of pandemic. Make America Great Again has new meaning.
From October in southeastern Connecticut
Our winter started last week with heavy wet snow followed by consistently freezing temperatures. The icing of the waterways has begun. The drought conditions are history. The beavers are into winter hiding and the birds are getting ready for the cold.
john's f-stop 