This old harvester has been fading into the landscape for a long time.
March has brought us all sort of winter-like weather but I think that spring is finally settling in. Most of the snow is melted. For the first time in four months, there are deer walking around on our hill. It was a hard winter to be a deer in the valley. Wild Turkeys seem to be wandering around here too. Birds are selecting nest boxes and building nests. Tiny wildflowers are growing and blooming.
Good morning
Still looks like winter
Swallows
Vernal pond
Wild Turkey tracks
White-tailed deer
Robin’s nest on my Hok skis
Steershead foliage
Spring beauty
Yellow bells
Ash tree
Spring
Finally, the snow is retreating, leaving enough bare ground that a person can safely walk without getting her feet wet. Muddy, but not wet. Little patches of green grass are everywhere (except in our yard which is a whole other topic best left alone). Tiny forbs are sending out small shoots and I was even able to find one tiny flower. Sky found her own treasure.
Bitterroot leaves
Those might be steershead leaves
Sprouts against a sun-warmed rock
Waterleaf
Tiny lomatium flower
Balsamroot
octopus wood
I think these are currants
I found it. You throw it.
Some days it feels like spring even with all the snow in the background.
Skeptic
First Dusky Grouse of the season
This emerged from the snow
We got to spend some time with Wyatt Ann
Wyatt really led Molly on a good run
aspen
nest
mud
It’s nice to have the swallows back
Winter is dragging its feet, not willing to leave in any hurry.
Tracks in new snow
Long shadows
Snow
I wonder where this exotic species came from?
Our driveway
Ken on his Hok skis
Molly is growing up
They are embarrassed by her
We had more tree work done. Aaron tops them and makes them into wildlife trees. The electric co-op would just cut them down near the power lines.
Sky feels so privileged that we would hire someone to make sticks for her
Trying to see who used this box last year.
Two male Western Bluebirds duking it out for a pretty female and a nice nest box
This guy won the fight
Maybe she wasn’t impressed
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