SNOW!

I mentioned yesterday that both Accuweather and The Weather Channel folks had forecast snow for this evening into tomorrow. They changed the forecast overnight. It started snowing this morning around 9 AM and has continued steadily now for 10 hours. It's a very fine snow. the kind that is the result of very cold temperatures. In fact the mercury never got above 24 degrees today.

The bad weather has forced the goldfinches, juncos, chickadees, cardinals, blue jays, titmice, woodpeckers, et. al. to continue their raid on my larder. I've had to refill the feeders several times today and had to shovel the deck of about 6 inches of snow to boot.

We even had a small group of red-winged blackbirds come to the clearing around the house. They were obviously attracted by the feeding frenzy of the smaller birds and, not finding food to their liking, they moved on.

I will most likely have to fire up the snow blower tomorrow morning. The forecast talk of snow continuing through the night. If that happens we should have between 10 and 12 inches of snow.I hope they are wrong.