3/25/08

Tuesday, 9:00 AM. 32 degrees, the barometer is down, predicting precipitation. Wind E, light with gusts to moderate. It snowed an inch or two during the night and the skies are mostly cloudy. The wind had been out of the W, and since a low is coming in, I think high pressure to the E is flowing into the low pressure to the west, shifting the wind.
The woods walk was pristine with the new snow, which always tells some tale. Rabbit tracks crossed the trail, with a few drops of red blood in the new snow here and there. I visually followed the tracks backwards to see what might have happened, and sure enough, there were clumps of fur on the remnants of an old chicken wire fence which the rabbit had tried to squeeze through, causing some bleeding. I saw nothing to indicate the rabbit was being pursued by anything, so it was evidently just a bunny blunder in the woods. No need to shovel, it is melting.
I have given up fighting with the squirrels at the bird feeder, at least for now. I put a large plant saucer filled with seed on the deck for them and they seemed to have learned to eat out of it rather than jump up to the bird feeder. We will see.