swans along the edge of open water
Photo by J. Harrington
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This morning, before the snow started, we noticed at least three whitetail does pick their way across the open fields behind our property. (at least we think they were does). By this time of Winter, bucks should have dropped their antlers so it's hard to be sure. Today was the first time this year we've seen deer that weren't just slipping out of the headlights' beams. Maybe it's a sign of more activity to watch for. Still haven't seen any turkeys for months.
whitetail looking toward the house
Photo by J. Harrington
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The number of goldfinches at the feeders, and on the ground under those feeders, seems to have increased markedly over the past week or so. Perhaps it's today's snow showers that's motivating them to visit the feeders. Perhaps
How Is It That the Snow
How is it that the snowamplifies the silence,slathers the black bark on limbs,heaps along the brush rows?Some deer have stood on their hind legsto pull the berries down.Now they are ghosts along the path,snow flecked with red wine stains.This silence in the timbers.A woodpecker on one of the treestaps out its story,stopping now and then in the lapseof one white moment into another.
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